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Contemporary art quilted portraits of people of African decent by Bisa Butler.
Bisa Butler (born Mailissa Yamba Butler in 1973) is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium.
Bisa Butler is an award winning African American textile artist. She is known for her vibrantly stunning larger than life sized quilted portraits that captivate viewers around the world.
Bisa Butler’s portrait of Harriet Tubman began with a minuscule black-and-white carte de visite. The 19th-century photograph featured the famed Underground Railroad conductor when she was...
Bisa Butler (born 1973, Orange, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American fibre artist whose vivid, life-size quilted portraits of Black individuals reimagine the medium and the genre. Working from contemporary and historical photographs, Butler recreates the scenes, animating the subjects using unique blends of colourful, patterned, and textured fabrics.
Bisa Butler creates arresting portraits—composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics—that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life. Butler often works with photographs as source images, reimagining the figures captured as attentive portraits with layers of color and stitched details.
Jul 24, 2020 · Artist Bisa Butler Stitches Together the African American Experience. Her dynamic quilts that reimagine old portraits will be on display in New York in her first solo exhibition. Bisa Butler, I...
