Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 01:00AM EST
Lot 59
SONIE JOI RUFFIN "Ode to Dr. Carver" (2015 Quilt)
Sold for
$600
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Sonie Joi Thompson-Ruffin
(Missouri, b. 1951)
Ode to Dr. Carver, 2005
Quilted silk chiffon kente cloth and pima cotton, cowrie shell drops
78" x 16"
The work is accompanied by an artist's statement, which gives background on Dr. Carver and elaborates on the symbolic elements of the composition. The statement is pencil-signed and dated by the artist. Title information tag sewn to the reverse.
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin is a celebrated contemporary fibers artist, author, and lecturer. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in the White House Rotunda and the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and in 2019, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art purchased her tour-de-force quilt “20 Odd.” Thompson-Ruffin is the author of The Soulful Art of African American Quilts (2007).
Very good condition.
(Missouri, b. 1951)
Ode to Dr. Carver, 2005
Quilted silk chiffon kente cloth and pima cotton, cowrie shell drops
78" x 16"
The work is accompanied by an artist's statement, which gives background on Dr. Carver and elaborates on the symbolic elements of the composition. The statement is pencil-signed and dated by the artist. Title information tag sewn to the reverse.
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin is a celebrated contemporary fibers artist, author, and lecturer. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in the White House Rotunda and the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and in 2019, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art purchased her tour-de-force quilt “20 Odd.” Thompson-Ruffin is the author of The Soulful Art of African American Quilts (2007).