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Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present Piece of Mind, the first New York solo exhibition by Mary Lee Bendolph, a foremost quiltmaker from Gee’s Bend, Alabama. On view are eleven quilts of varying patterns and fabrics, demonstrating Bendolph’s formal mastery, material ingenuity, and aesthetic singularity within the American quilting tradition.

Mary Lee Bendolph was born in 1935 in Gee’s Bend, Alabama: a geographically isolated community held in a cradle of the Alabama River southwest of Montgomery. Since the early 19th century, generations of Black families have lived in the Bend …