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An Artist Talk with Diedrick Brackens
Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989, Mexia, TX) is best known for woven tapestries that explore allegory and narrative through the artist’s autobiography, broader themes of African American and queer identity, as well as American history. Brackens employs techniques from West African weaving, quilting from the American South and European tapestry-making to create both abstract and figurative works. Often depicting moments of tenderness, Brackens culls from African and African American literature, poetry and folklore as source. Beginning his process through the hand-dying of cotton, a material deliberately employed in acknowledgement of its brutal history, Brackens’ oeuvre presents rich, nuanced visions of African American life and identity, while also alluding to the complicated histories of labor and migration. Brackens intricately-woven tapestries investigate historical gaps, interlacing the present with a singular magical realist worldview.
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