Bisa Butler is a singular voice among a cadre of contemporary artists that engage figural representation to examine the beauty and complexity of Black experience. A painter by training, Butler employs a wide array of textiles as her “palette” and quilting as her medium. Her body of work draws largely on black and white archival photographs of Black American and other African diasporic people, which she translates into her own brightly colored interpretations using African and American fabrics…