Akea Brionne -Three's Company, 2024
Jacquard, rhinestone, glitter | 60 × 48 in | 152.4 × 121.9 cm
Akea Brionne is a lens-based media and textiles artist investigating the implications of historical racial and social structures in relation to the development of contemporary Black life and identity within America. Utilizing excess to subvert hegemonic structures, her jeweled canvases analyze the impact of colonial systems on cultural storytelling, memory, assimilation, and the African Diaspora, primarily within American and Caribbean society.
Brionne is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and was raised in Baltimore. She currently lives and works between Detroit, MI and Kansas City, MO. Brionne is currently an AICAD Fellow, Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. - source
I love this piece! I want it!!!!!! I want to hang it in my living room 😊
It’s striking, especially the center portrait.
love.