A limited edition of Tar Beach 2 was conceived in 1990, a copy of which will feature in Ringgold’s solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Guggenheim Museum, New York The original versions of Tar Beach and Tar Beach 2 are in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York and Philadelphia Museum of Art respectively. They take their liberation by confronting this huge masculine icon-the bridge.”’ - Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, Solomon R. “My women,” proclaimed Ringgold about the Women on a Bridge series, “are actually flying they are just free, totally. That means I am free to go wherever I want to for the rest of my life.” For Ringgold, this phantasmic flight through the urban night sky symbolizes the potential for freedom and self-possession. ” explains Cassie in the text on the quilt, “only eight years old and in the third grade and I can fly. Tar Beach, the first quilt in Ringgold’s colorful and lighthearted series entitled Women on a Bridge, depicts the fantasies of its spirited heroine and narrator Cassie Louise Lightfoot, who, on a summer night in Harlem, flies over the George Washington Bridge. The naive, folk-art quality of the quilts is part of Ringgold’s scheme to emphasize narrative over style, to convey information rather than to dazzle with elaborate technique. Before reading this book, I had known Ringgold as the author of the famous children’s story, Tar Beach. Ringgold’s travels and her belief in the rights of others and protesting for causes. That Ringgold’s great-great-grandmother was a Southern slave who made quilts for plantation owners suggests a further, perhaps deeper, connection between her art and her family history. Faith’s story is well told, from her childhood in Harlem to her increasingly personal and successful career. She originally collaborated on the quilt motif with her mother, a dressmaker and fashion designer in Harlem. Description: 'Ringgold’s vehicle is the story quilt-a traditional American craft associated with women’s communal work that also has roots in African culture.
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