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Faced in the early \u201890s with racist neighbors who tried to stop her from building a studio on her Jones Road property in Englewood, NJ, Faith Ringgold responded with \u2018Coming to Jones Road,\u2019 a series of fabric artworks that celebrated the history of Black people moving to New Jersey.\u00a0 A mini survey of work by Ringgold at Jack Shainman Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Tribeca space includes, among several pieces from the series, \u2018Aunt Emmy and Baby Freedom\u2019 a work featuring a baby who has arrived in the North via the Underground Railroad.\u00a0 Based on Ringgold\u2019s great grandmother, an anchor of the family, the character Aunt Emmy beams down on Baby Freedom, a child embodying the notion expressed in the work\u2019s text that \u2018Every last one was born to be free.\u2019 (On view through Jan 24th<\/sup> in Tribeca.)<\/p>\n

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Faith Ringgold, Coming to Jones Road Part II #3 Aunt Emmy and Baby Freedom, signed and dated lower right, Faith Ringgold May 2010, acrylic on quilted fabric, 47 x 35 inches, 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Faith Ringgold, (detail) Coming to Jones Road Part II #3 Aunt Emmy and Baby Freedom, signed and dated lower right, Faith Ringgold May 2010, acrylic on quilted fabric, 47 x 35 inches, 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faced in the early \u201890s with racist neighbors who tried to stop her from building a studio on her Jones Road property in Englewood, NJ, Faith Ringgold responded with \u2018Coming to Jones Road,\u2019 a series of fabric artworks that celebrated the history of Black people moving to New Jersey.\u00a0 A mini survey of work by … <\/p>\n

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