September Issue 1999
SECCA Presents Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), in Winston-Salem,
NC, will present Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds and Candlebugs: The
Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott beginning Oct. 23 and continuing
through Feb. 6. Organized by the Maryland Institute College of
Art, the exhibition is the first ever retrospective of quiltmaker
Elizabeth Talford Scott's highly acclaimed artistic career. The
exhibition includes over 45 quilts dating from 1930 - 1997.
Elizabeth Talford Scott was born in 1916 near Chester, SC, the
sixth of fourteen children. She learned the art of quiltmaking
from her mother and began her first quilt at the age of nine.
Upon moving to Baltimore in the 1940s, she postponed her artwork
to work as a domestic caterer, caretaker and mother. It was not
until the 1970s, with the encouragement of her daughter and friends,
that she began to quilt again. Her creations broke free of the
traditional concept of quiltmaking and helped bridge the gap between
"high" and "low" art.
Scott's artwork clearly shows the deeply rooted traditions of
Africans' past and evokes new visual traditions through the display
of bright colors, complex patterns, buttons, shells, bones and
other unexpected materials. "African-American artistry is
now recognized as a part of a critical voice in the larger definition
of what constitutes an American cultural and artistic legacy,"
says George Ciscle, guest curator for the exhibition. During the
last twenty years, Scott has exhibited in conjunction with her
daughter, Joyce Scott, a mixed media performance artist, in galleries
along the east coast including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Smithsonian Institute.
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