PURCHASE, NY.- For fifty years, Faith Ringgold, has used her art to comment on racism and gender inequality. Though best known as the progenitor of the African American story quilt revival that began in the 1970s, it is her pointed political paintings of the 1960s – many of which disappeared from view — that are the focus of American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960 – on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art, in Purchase, New York, from September 11 – December 19, 2010. The Neuberger Museum has organized this first comprehensive survey of these early paintings to coincide with the artist’s eightieth birthday. Approximately sixty works are on view. Featured are Ringgold’s two earliest series, American People (1962-1967) and Black Light (1967-1969), which have not been seen together since they were first exhibited in the late 1960s and