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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

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2025

This Side of the River: Carole Harris’ Role in Black Abstraction and Craft

This research surveys textile artist Carole Harris’ five-decade career, highlighting her contributions to Black abstraction and textile art. Building on the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s study of Gallery 7, a famed Detroit space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s, it emphasizes Harris’ innovative quilts, which challenge the boundaries between craft and fine art.

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Detroit, MI

$5,000

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Selected works

Carole Harris, "Before or Since," 2023, commercially printed machine-pieced cottons, acrylic paint on muslin, fused cottons, cotton batting, machine quilting, and hand embroidery, 57 x 39 in.

Carole Harris, "This Side of the River," 2022, machine-quilted and hand-embroidered patterned, solid, and repurposed cottons, hand-dyed muslin, cotton batting, and fusing, 66 x 55 in.