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forbidden fruit by akea brionne, 2023, rhinestones, poly-fil, & thread, 60 x 48 inches

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Akea Brionne is originally from New Orleans, currently based in Detroit. 

In Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, she pays homage to four important women in her family—her great-grandmother and her three great-aunts, the Phelps sisters. “School Children,” shown here, as part of a series of Jacquard tapestries on view in the exhibition that reproduce images from the artist’s family archive with hand-sewn rhinestone embellishments.

📷 Akea Brionne (born New Orleans, Louisiana, 1996; based in Detroit, Michigan). School Children, from the series An Ode to (You)’all, 2022. Jacquard tapestry, Poly-Fil, rhinestones, 40 × 27 in. (101.6 × 68.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist → Akea Brionne Brown

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Akea Brionne, Forbidden Fruit, (jacquered tapestry, hot fix crystals, cotton, poly-fil), 2023 at Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum

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Akea Brionne’s Uncanny Rhinestone Tapestries Unsettle Memory and the Familiar

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Akea Brionne Brown

The Water Ripples, 2023

Jacquard tapestries, poly-fil, rhinestones

48 × 36 in | 121.9 × 91.4 cm

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Akea Brionne Brown, Suburban Fantasy, 2019

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(image above- Robert Pruitt, "A Song for Travelers")

Brooklyn Museum's exhibition, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, is an opportunity to learn about an important period of American history, and see it interpreted through the eyes of twelve contemporary artists.

From the museum's website-

Between 1915 and 1970, in the wake of racial terror during the post-Reconstruction period, millions of Black Americans fled from their homes to other areas within the South and to other parts of the country. This remarkable movement of people, known as the Great Migration, caused a radical shift in the demographic, economic, and sociopolitical makeup of the United States. A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration brings together twelve contemporary artists to consider the complex impact of this period on their lives, as well as on social and cultural life, with newly commissioned works ranging from large-scale installation, immersive film, and tapestry to photography, painting, and mixed media. Featured artists are Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. A Movement in Every Direction presents a departure from traditional accounts of the Great Migration, which are often understood through a lens of trauma, and reconceptualizes them through stories of self-possession, self-determination, and self-examination. While the South did lose generations of courageous, creative, and productive Black Americans due to racial and social inequities, the exhibition expands the narrative by introducing people who stayed in, or returned to, the region during this time. Additionally, the Brooklyn Museum’s presentation centers Brooklyn as another important site in the Great Migration, highlighting historical and contemporary census data about the borough’s migration patterns. Visitors are encouraged to share their own personal and familial stories of migration through an oral history “pod” available in the exhibition galleries.

About Robert Pruitt's work, pictured above, from the museum's wall information plaque-

“A Song for Travelers” celebrates the individual and Black collective experiences that have shaped the histories of rural East Texas and Houston's Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards. In this drawing-based on an early 1970’s photograph of a reunion of the artist's family in Dobbin, Texas -sixteen people gather around a seated central figure about to embark on a journey. During the creation of this work, the masked traveler became a stand-in for Pruitt, who had recently left his hometown of Houston.

Pruitt often draws inspiration from his and others' family photographs while examining historical events that have impacted Houston's Black communities. Wearing costumes and adorned with items that reference various aspects of Black culture found in schools, social clubs, and religious spaces, the figures in the work reflect the numerous networks that remained and flourished in the South. Merging the Great Migration period with the present, Pruitt centers the Black neighborhoods across the southern region that served as safe havens and rich sites of cultural expression for migrants during the twentieth century. This link extends to today as many Black Americans leave the northern and western cities that once attracted their elders and return to the South.

Allison Janae Hamilton's A House Called Florida, below, takes the viewer on a journey through part of northern Florida's natural beauty.

From the museum's information plaque about the video installation-

Allison Janae Hamilton produced the three-channel film installation A House Called Florida in her hometown region of northern Florida. The breathtaking landscapes of Apalachicola Bay and the swampy Blackwater Lakes of Florida's Big Bend frame musicians, dancers, motorists, a Victorian house, and a slow resounding rhythm. The artist references French Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar's 1946 short story "Casa Tomada." ("House Taken Over") about ghosts that slowly take over a home and eventually push out its owners, room by room. Hamilton echoes the story's theme of displacement with two regally dressed, spirit-like protagonists who move about the house engaging in mark-making and ritual performances. Hamilton's film pays tribute to the Black Floridians who remained in the Red Hills and the Forgotten Coast regions, despite the racial violence and environmental precariousness they faced throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Carrie Mae Weems' personal and moving contribution is in two parts- a series of photographs and a unique digital video installation.

The museum's description of the work-

Carrie Mae Weems explores a painful family story: the disappearance of her grandfather Frank Weems, a tenant farmer and union activist who was attacked by a white mob in Earle Arkansas, in 1936. Presumed dead, he narrowly escaped and made his way to Chicago on foot, never again reuniting with his family. Frank Weems may have followed the North Star to Chicago. Weems's series of seven prints, The North Star, makes an apt metaphor for Frank's life. In Leave! Leave Now! Weems conjures the figure of her grandfather with a Pepper's Ghost, a late nineteenth-century form of illusion first used in theater. By weaving historical events with fragmented family stories, photographs, poetry, music, and interviews, the artist reveals the tragedy of her grandfather's disappearance and the aftermath.

This exhibition will close on Sunday, June 25th, 2023.

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Akea Brionne's Uncanny Rhinestone Tapestries Unsettle Memory and the Familiar | Colossal

MARCH 29, 2024 GRACE EBERT “Yakemein.” All images © Akea Brionne Working on digital jacquard weavings, Akea Brionne adds rhinestones, infusing a sense of decadence into each tapestry. Woven into Akea Brionne’s glimmery Afro-surrealist tapestries is an impulse toward sustainability. With a degree in the subject and a practice rooted in research, the Detroit-based artist began considering how to…

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Akea Brionne’s Uncanny Rhinestone Tapestries Unsettle Memory and the Familiar

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Art AND: Akea Brionne Brown

Akea Brionne Brown isn’t afraid of uncomfortable conversations. This year’s 23-year-old Sondheim Prize winner explains, “As an artist I think I’m more willing to listen to the other side than a lot of other people are.” Brown’s installation and photography work, which asks her audience “to confront race and identity in modern terms,” challenges some […] from BmoreArt | Baltimore Contemporary Art

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Get the artists’ perspective on the society-shifting, culture-creating impact of the Great Migration. 

The Virtual Member Coffee Chat on April 19 will make space for conversation surrounding community, connection, and radical hope inspired by A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. Stick around for a live Q&A with the moderator and artists, including: 

Akea Brionne: Interdisciplinary researcher and artist

Steffani Jemison: artist and fellow Brooklynite 

Indira A. Abiskaroon: Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art

Register for free as a Member (or become a Member) here: http://bit.ly/414Wvf5

📷 Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Andrew Brincka) → Akea Brionne, 2023 → Steffani Jemison. © Nottingham Contemporary 2017

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Wrap yourself in the breathtaking landscapes and rhythms of northern Florida.

Allison Janae Hamilton’s “A House Called Florida” is a three-channel film installation depicting the artist’s home region. In it, the artist references French Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar’s 1946 short story “Casa Tomada” (“House Taken Over”) about ghosts that slowly take over a home and eventually push out its owners, room by room. Hamilton’s film pays tribute to the Black Floridians who remained in the Red Hills and Forgotten Coast regions, despite the racial violence and environmental precariousness they faced throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Delve deeper into the Great Migration and its complex impact with three of the artists featured in the exhibition—Akea Brionne, Leslie Hewitt, and Robert Pruitt— during Brooklyn Talks on May 18. Get your ticket, which includes after-hours access to #GreatMigrationBkM, at the link below.

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📷 Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez) → Photo by Frankie Alduino

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To stay or to enlist? 

It’s the critical decision that many Black families wrestled with as the armed services could provide economic opportunities and that question is illuminated by Zoë Charlton in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. In her installation, Permanent Change of Station, Charlton creates a large-scale, multilayered vignette of deciduous and evergreen trees, Southeast Asian terraced rice fields, and Florida Spanish moss.

By placing together elements that do not naturally coexist, Charlton blurs the boundaries between the real and imagined; the familiar and foreign. In a large-scale drawing, a Black American woman in high-ranking military dress—perhaps a distant relative of or stand-in for the artist—prepares to launch a miniature U.S. Air Force McDonnell F-4C-23 Phantom II fighter plane toward the 1950s-era white suburb of Levittown, Pennsylvania.

Experience the details within Charlton’s work that incorporates landscapes from Vietnam and the Philippines, where her family served in the armed forces as part of #GreatMigrationBkM through June 25.

Hear from three of the artists—Akea Brionne, Leslie Hewitt, and Robert Pruitt—whose work is on view in this story-rich exhibition during Brooklyn Talks on May 18. They'll discuss their individual practices and the profound impact of this movement of millions of Black Americans across the South and the country. 

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🖼️ Zoë Charlton (born Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 1973; based in Baltimore, Maryland). Permanent Change of Station, 2022. Collage on wood panel and graphite, gouache, collage on paper. Pop-up construction: 73 1/8 × 195 3/4 × 120 1/4 in. (185.7 × 497.2 × 305.4 cm). Collage: 82 × 211 1/4 in. (208.3 × 536.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado) → E. Brady Robinson Photography

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Coming Soon… A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. 📍

In this exhibition, twelve influential and emerging artists reflect on the Great Migration period (1915–70), during which millions of Black Americans fled from their homes to other areas of the South and across the country in the wake of racial terror. Large-scale installation, painting, immersive film, tapestry, mixed media, and photography depict the artists’ experience with this mass movement, as well as its continuing impact on their lives and on social and cultural life in the United States. 

We look forward to sharing with you the work of Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. 

📷 Allison Janae Hamilton (born Lexington, Kentucky, 1984; based in New York, New York). Still from “A House Called Florida,” 2022. Three-channel film installation (color, sound): 34 min., 46 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen

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