bell hooks

Melissa Blanchflower

Natalia Grabowska

Rizvana Bradley

Jennifer Packer

Serpentine Gallery, London

Jennifer Packer : the Eye Is Not Satisfied with Seeing

Daniel Birnbaum

Julia Voss

Hilma af Klint

Melissa Larner

Jennifer Higgie

Emma Enderby

Painting the Unseen

Hilma Af Klint

This survey catalogue of the American figurative painter, his first in London since 2000, highlights key aspects of the artist's oeuvre from the 1950s until his death in 2004.Golub's paintings from the 1950s depict universal images of man and reference the classical figure found in antiquity, while his highly political series of the 1970s and 1980s draws on the Vietnam War, American foreign policy and the rise of paramilitary soldiers in places such as South Africa and Latin America.His work from the 1990s incorporates slogans, text, graffiti and symbols into dystopian scenes of urban existence.Throughout his career Golub was guided by his belief that art should have relevance. His works are profoundly psychological and emotive - often painted on a huge scale - and return again and again to themes of oppression, violence and the misuse of power.This publication features a conversation between Helaine Posner, Katy Kline, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Leon Golub: Bite Your Tongue at Serpentine Gallery, London, 4 March - 17 May 2015.

Bite Your Tongue

Leon Golub

For more than five decades the artist, activist and writer, Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, Harlem, New York) has consistently challenged perceptions of African American identity and gender inequality through the lenses of the feminist and the civil rights movements. As cultural assumptions and prejudices persist, her work retains its contemporary resonance.She created her first political paintings, The American People Series from 1963 to 1967. In the early 1970s Ringgold began making tankas (inspired by a Tibetan art form of paintings framed in richly brocaded fabrics), soft sculptures and masks. She later utilised this medium in her masked performances of the 1970s and 80s.Developing a tradition once practiced by her great-great grandmother Susie Shannon, who was born into slavery and produced quilts for plantation owners, Ringgold uses fabric to weave together personal stories and histories of African American experience. -- Osei Bonsu (Frieze) Focussing on different series that she has created over the past 50 years, this major survey of her work includes paintings, story quilts and political posters made during the Black Power movement.This concise retrospective at Serpentine sprints through almost 50 years of strong and precisely considered works. All contribute to Ringgold's grander enterprise, in which narrative is deployed as a powerful force, taking back histories and suggesting alternatives to the status quo. -- Hettie Judah (The Guardian) Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, London (6 June - 8 September 2019).

Faith Ringgold

Melissa Blanchflower

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