Art as a Tool for Historical Reflection
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Also in 2022, Legacy Russell organized “The New Bend,†a group present at Hauser & Wirth gallery that drew connections between the Gee’s Bend quilters and 12 risingstar artists, including Tomashi Jackson, Eric N. Mack, and Basil Kincaid. Russell described the Gee’s Bend makers as “artists and technologists,†positioning younger artists as their inheritors exploring the many hyperlinks between textiles and digital instruments. The warps and wefts of fabric, for example, work like a grid of pixels, while their collage techniques recall the disjointed expertise of searching the web. This exhibition …

