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Louisiana Bendolph Biography
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Louisiana Bendolph is a young woman artist & quilter born in Gee’s Bend, Alabama in 1960. She grew up watching her family members making quilts. For hundred of years the women in Gee’s Bend, a rural African American community in Wilcox Alabama, have been making quilts. The isolated community has out of necessity-lack of heat; reuse of worn clothing and unique creativity produced wonderful and beautiful quilts. In September of 2002, “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” exhibition opened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the quilts and quilters of Gee’s Bend became famous. Louisiana’s great grandmother, Annie E. Pettway’s quilts are in the Gee’s Bend exhibition, which has traveled to art museums in Milwaukee and San Francisco. Louisiana Bendolph was inspired by the public recognition and response to the beauty and importance of the quilts and quilters. She has now created “Three Squares,” a beautiful color softground aquatint print based on the Gee’s Bend quilt of her great grandmother. Her work is shown across the United States and in Canada.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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"Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend and Beyond Tour", Misouri Historical Society
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2008
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"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
"Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend and Beyond Tour", Cultural Resources Commission, Tallahassee, FL
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2007
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"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA
"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Walters Art Museum Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
"Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend and Beyond Tour", Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM
"Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend and Beyond Tour", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
"Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend and Beyond Tour", The Paine Art Center & Gardens, Oshkosh, WI
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2006
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"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
"The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts", Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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