Jul 25, 2019
In 2005, Mary Lee Bendolph, along with her daughter-in-law and fellow quilter Lousiana Bendolph, attended an artist-in-residence program at Paulson Press in Berkeley, California. There, Mary Lee experimented with printmaking. She produced six prints during this time, including “Mama’s Song” (2005). Later that year, she created a quilt inspired by that print, “Blocks, Strips, Strings, and Half Squares” (2005).
These two incredible works hang side-by-side in “Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South,” demonstrating the flexibility of Bendolph’s artistic repertoire and exhibiting two contemporary examples of her talents. See these works and more by Bendolph on view in the Perelman Building until September 2.