Carolyn Mazloomi

Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi introduces herself as an “elder African-American mother, wife and grandmother born in the Jim Crow segregated south,” a perspective that shapes how...

If the African American tradition of quilting has begun to find its place in the contemporary art world, it's thanks in no small part to...

The Ohio-based textile artist crafts portraits of key Civil Rights figures and changemakers in her chosen medium as they practice their hard-won constitutional right to...

Through the medium of large-scale quilts, Mazloomi recounts the valiant lives of Black civil-rights activists, leaders and revolutionaries, often overlooked or oversimplified in our nation’s...

Going from aviation engineer to quilter is as extreme a career pivot as it gets. However, 75-year-old artist Carolyn Mazloomi did just that over five...

SEPTEMBER OPENINGS Carolyn Mazloomi: Whole Cloth, Narratives in Black and White Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, New York September 3–November 16, 2024 “These are not...

Claire Oliver Gallery has announced representation of American textile artist Carolyn Mazloomi. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1948, Mazloomi studied aviation science in college...

Mazloomi's quilts are narrative, graphic, and pictorial. She employs a variety of techniques, including a printing process to transfer her drawings onto fabric, painting, appliqué,...

Mazloomi understands that, in the wrong hands, the authoritative pen of history is likely to memorialize fraught and incomplete understandings of landmark events and figures....

A group show featuring BK Adams, Barbara Earl Thomas, Stan Squirewell, LaNia Roberts, and Carolyn Mazloomi examines how each artist grapples with temporality in their...

The artist’s new body of work features textile-based “shrines” to the country’s often-overlooked heroes. Claire Oliver Gallery in New York has announced the opening of...