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Also in 2022, Legacy Russell organized “The New Bend,” a gaggle present at Hauser & Wirth gallery that drew connections between the Gee’s Bend quilters and 12 risingstar artists, together with Tomashi Jackson, Eric N. Mack, and Basil Kincaid. Russell described the Gee’s Bend makers as “artists and technologists,” positioning youthful artists as their inheritors exploring the many links between textiles and digital instruments. The warps and wefts of cloth, as an example, work like a grid of pixels, whereas their collage methods recall the disjointed experience of browsing the internet. If the NFT boom-and-bust left a nasty style in…