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Goya Contemporary Gallery is thrilled to announce our solo presentation of works by Elizabeth Talford Scott at the 2021 Armory Show.

Fiber artist Elizabeth Talford Scott (b.1916- d.2011) was born near Chester, South Carolina on the land her parents worked as sharecroppers, and where previously her grandparents were held as slaves. The sixth of fourteen children who lived on the Blackstalk Plantation, Elizabeth was trained by the age of nine to repurpose scrapped materials into usable objects to accommodate basic survival needs. In her generation, quilting was a familiar part of the black …