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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.
Bisa Butler’s portrait quilts vividly capture personal and historical narratives of Black life. She strategically uses textiles—a traditionally marginalized medium—to interrogate the historical marginalization of her subjects while using scale and subtle detail to convey her subjects’ complex individuality.
Bisa Butler is an artist who creates arresting portraits—composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics—that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life. Often working with photographs as source images, she strategically selects fabrics, using the history or imagery of the prints to reinforce the stories she wants to ...
Oct 27, 2020 · CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce Bisa Butler: Portraits, on view from November 16-September 6, 2021. Showcasing 22 quilts in four galleries, the exhibition engages with themes of family, community, migration, the promise of youth, and artistic and intellectual legacies.
Artist Bisa Butler and her husband, a longtime DJ, chose this selection of songs to pair with each of her quilts as well as other works from the museum’s collection, all of which are on view in Bisa Butler: Portraits. Find the full Spotify playlist here.
Aug 15, 2021 · At the top of the Grand Staircase at the Art Institute of Chicago hang massive, colorful banners announcing the art work of Bisa Butler. Butler's specialty is fabric, specifically...
Contemporary art quilted portraits of people of African decent by Bisa Butler.
