About

Curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, ‘The New Bend’
travels from the gallery’s New York location to Los Angeles in October, bringing together 13 contemporary artists
working in the raced, classed, and gendered traditions of quilting and textile practice – Anthony Akinbola, Eddie
R. Aparicio, Dawn Williams Boyd, Myrlande Constant, Ferren Gipson, Tomashi Jackson, Basil Kincaid, Eric N.
Mack, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Tuesday Smillie, Rachel Eulena Williams, Qualeasha Wood, and Zadie Xa. Their unique visual vernacular exists in tender dialogue with, and in …