The artist Tschabalala Self sits in front of one of her textile paintings in her studio in New Haven.
"On a drizzly morning in April, the artist Tschabalala Self, 28, straps on kneepads and pulls back her braids to kneel above a quilt-like painting. Her textile works are sewn from fabric scraps — brick-stamped canvas, Timberland-colored beige, acid-washed denim — and imagine black women and men in her home neighborhood of Harlem as exaggerated characters. ... Self’s body of work, called 'Street Scenes,' is a series of eight paintings with trompe l’oeil brick walls that coalesce to form one scene — a narrative continuation of 'Bodega Run,' currently up at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, her garishly lit installation of sculptural paintings depicting women in a neighborhood corner store. ..."
NY Times
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Meet Fast-Rising Artist Tschabalala Self
After she plans out a composition for a new work, Self cuts fabric swatches and arranges them on the ground.
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