Jack Shainman Gallery exhibits eight new weavings by Diedrick Brackens
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting diedrick brackens rhyming positions at the 513 West 20th Street location. The artists second exhibition with the gallery, these eight new weavings continue the explorations of narrative, allegory, and intimacy so fundamental to Brackens practice.
In several tableaux situated in nature, Brackens plays with the idea of creating home in a wild space, honoring the outdoors as a place in which queerness lives. This is a nod to the history of queer and femme folks who have gathered in nature, creating safe spaces for ritual and communion. This notion of commune is present in summer syllables, in which two figures stretch in lyrical movement, seemingly fashioning loops out of their own bodies, as if flowing one into the other within a vast, yellow landscape. In soft, dark, demigod, a figure bends over, caught within a thicket of roses in fu
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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Artâs âProject Spaceâ debuts Saturday, Feb. 20, with new works by award-winning artist Diedrick Brackens.
Brackensâ first exhibition in the southwest is called âArk of Bulrushesâ and features all-new tapestries and introduces his first handwoven basket boats.
The collection was inspired by a discussion in 2017 between Brackens and curator Lauren R. OâConnell about depicting Black bodies via abstract tapestries.
âWe are thrilled to be presenting all new work by the extremely talented and humble artist Diedrick Brackens,â said OâConnell, assistant curator at SMoCA.Â
âEvery aspect of the artistâs weavings â color, figures, animals and patterns â layer together meaning that is often rooted in dark histories, but with the intention to find hope wherever it may exist. The complexity that he achieves is done so by creating rich textiles that offer alternative perspectives and narra