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Diedrick Brackens : darling divined
- Title
- Diedrick Brackens : darling divined / edited by Margot Norton.
- Author
- Brackens, Diedrick, 1989-
- Publication
- New York, NY : New Museum, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 187 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989, Mexia, TX) constructs intricately woven textiles that speak to the complexities of black and queer identity in the United States. Interlacing diverse traditions, including West African weaving, European tapestries, and quilting from the American south, Brackens creates cosmographic abstractions and figurative narratives that lyrically merge lived experience, commemoration, and allegory. He uses both commercial dyes and unconventional colorants such as wine, tea, and bleach, and foregrounds the loaded symbolism of materials like cotton, with its links to the transatlantic slave trade. This exhibition is curated by Margot Norton, Curator, and Francesca Altamura, Curatorial Assistant"--
- Alternative Title
- Darling divined
- Subject
- Brackens, Diedrick, 1989- > Exhibitions
- Brackens, Diedrick, 1989- > Interviews
- 2000-2099
- African American artists > Exhibitions
- Weavers > California > Los Angeles > Exhibitions
- Art, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Textile crafts > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Textile crafts > Political aspects > United States > Exhibitions
- African American gay men > Identity > In art > Exhibitions
- Homosexuality and art > Exhibitions
- Art, American
- Homosexuality and art
- Textile crafts
- African American gay men
- African American LGBTQ+ people
- African American artists
- Weavers
- African American gay men > Identity
- United States
- California > Los Angeles
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the New Museum, New York, June 4-September 15, 2019 and The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, October 17, 2020-May 16, 2021.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Lisa Phillips and Simone Wicha -- Intimacy and divination / Diedrick Brackens in conversation with Margot Norton and Francesca Altamura -- In the decadence of silence / Derrick Austin -- Breath Act(s) / Danielle A. Jackson -- On catfish / Veronica Roberts -- Fixin' things, American wedding, For my own protection / Essex Himphill.
- Call Number
- Sc F 23-48
- ISBN
- 9780915557271
- 0915557274
- 9780915557288
- 0915557282
- OCLC
- 1277139884
- Author
- Brackens, Diedrick, 1989- artist.
- Title
- Diedrick Brackens : darling divined / edited by Margot Norton.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : New Museum, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Biography
- Diedrick Brackens is an American artist and weaver who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Brackens is well known for his woven tapestries that explore African American and queer identity. Margot Norton is Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, New York.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Norton, Margot, editor, curator.New Museum (New York, N.Y.), host institution.Blanton Museum of Art, host institution.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 23-48