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Recognizing September 12th as Barbara Chase Riboud Day in Philadelphia.
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WHEREAS, Barbara Chase Riboud, a Sculptor, Visual Artist, Writer, Poet and Philadelphia native is the featured artist to the Malcolm X Steles exhibition on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from September 14 - December 8, 2013; and
WHEREAS, A native of Philadelphia, Barbara Chase Riboud studied at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and obtained a graduate degree in architecture from Yale University; and
WHEREAS, Her prestigious career consists of both an internationally acclaimed visual artist and award winning writer and poet, best known for her 1979 historical novel Sally Hemings; and
WHEREAS, The Malcolm X Steles exhibition brings together more than forty works from the United States and Europe as it examines Barbara Chase Riboud's artistic career with a focus primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures; and
WHEREAS, This exhibit will also include a group of drawings from the late 1960's and early 1970's made during the development of the Malcolm X series and twenty Monument drawings will be on display; and
WHEREAS, Chase Riboud conceived the first Malcolm X in early 1969 while in Paris; and
WHEREAS, These abstract sculptures that combine cast bronze with wrapped skeins of silk and wool, that are wholly unique, over life-size works capture a single moment in an endless cycle of transformation; and
WHEREAS, Each sculpture harmonizes various contradictory associations, which combine the vertical and horizontal, mineral and organic, male and female, fine art and craft, heavy and light, rigid and supple; and
WHEREAS, Chase Riboud has gracefully fused the elements of armor and textiles in her abstract portrayals of Malcolm X forging a provocative view of identity in the tradition of post-World War II existentialism; and
WHEREAS, The sculptures also allude her artistic, cultural, and p...
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