Collector’s Digest
- Diedrick Brackens combines West African weaving, American quilting, and European tapestry techniques to create rich textile works that speak to the artist’s Black and queer identities. Poignantly, the artist always begins his process by hand-dyeing cotton, in an intentional reference to the history of enslavement, labor, and migration bound up in this natural material.
- His work is represented in a number of public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum for American Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Recent solo exhibitions include Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, heaven is a muddy riverbed, Jan.-May 2022; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, rhyming positions, Jul.-Aug. 2021; New Museum, New York, Diedrick Brackens: Darling Divined, Jun.-Sep. 2019.
- slain garden marks Brackens’ auction debut.
- Provenance
  Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
  Acquired from the above by the present owner
- Literature
  Veronica Roberts, “Myth and Folktale: An Interview with Diedrick Brackens,” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, vol. 33, no. 1, Winter 2020–Spring 2021, fig. 5, pp. 160, 164 (illustrated, p. 164)