In Private
Moments
April 10 – 12, 2015
Presented by Top Rank Magazine
Opening reception: Friday, April 10, 2015, 6-9PM
Hosted by AFROPUNK
Artist talk: Sunday, April 12, 2015, 4PM, Nakeya
Brown in conversation with Kimberly Drew, founder of Black Contemporary Art
558 St
Johns Place
Crown
Heights, Brooklyn
From Top
Rank Magazine press release:
Top Rank Magazine is pleased to present In Private Moments, an exhibition of
works by Nakeya Brown. This is Brown’s first solo show and her New York City
debut.
In the
photographic and installation works featured in In Private Moments, Brown
engages with the fraught cultural politics of hair and beauty. Her pastel
colored and minimally composed still-life portraits evoke the duality of
emotions associated with black women’s relationship with hair maintenance and
aesthetics – happiness and pain; beauty and sacrifice; collectivity and
alienation. Approaching the subject matter through a feminist frame, Brown’s
work focuses on the objects and rituals that black women use to construct their
identities.
“As black
women, there are these processes that we do, sort of in secrecy and behind
doors. I wanted to bring that aspect of our lives into a space, [so] that it
can be talked about and it can be looked at,” says Brown about In Private Moments.
Top Rank Magazine has selected a group of
women ages 14-18 from the New York City area to participate in a portraiture
workshop with Brown on April 12, 2015. Participants will work closely with the
artist to produce and print their own portraits, as well as discuss the broader
social issues raised in Brown’s work.
About the Artist
Nakeya
Brown was born in Santa Maria, California in 1988. Her work has been exhibited
at the McKenna Museum of African American Art, Woman Made Gallery, Vivid
Solutions Gallery, and Mason Gross Gallery. Brown’s work has been reviewed by The Washington City Paper, African & Afro-Diasporan Art Talks, For Harriet, and has been published by
international publications Hysteria
and Tonelit.
About Top
Rank Magazine
Top Rank Magazine is a Brooklyn based
biannual publication that profiles women of diverse backgrounds who are
driving, shaping, and challenging the world around them. Top Rank women are leaders in the arts, academia, social justice,
technology, and fashion worlds. The publication strives to promote a culture of
support and collaboration among creative women while celebrating their distinct
contributions.
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