Nakeya Brown Photography

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A Studio Letter

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david alan harvey. the girls of harlem choir backstage at the apollo theater. harlem, usa. 2000.

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Featuring the work of 16 Black artists, stylists, and cultural producers, Roots Run Deep looks at the ways in which Black hairstyles are tied to tradition and examines the historic influence of the past on modern styling practices today. Through photography, sculpture, and mixed media works, artists demonstrate how hair is used as a medium to articulate our creativity across the diaspora.

Featured artists include Nakeya Brown, Jordan Coyne, Kenyatta Crisp, Nick Drain, Quinn Hunter, Mia Marshall, Brianna Mims, Steven Montair, Ayanna Nayo, Sharon Norwood, Mathais Rushin, Sharrell Rushin, Dominique Scaife, and Shori Sims.

Brew House Association Gallery 711 South 21st Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203

To limit capacity on opening weekend, we are offering timed tickets.

COVID-19 SAFETY MEASURES:

All visitors are required to wear a mask at all times. The gallery will be limiting capacity to 10 per half hour and visitors will be required to maintain social distancing guidelines.

If you are prohibited from wearing a mask for medical reasons, please schedule a private viewing outside of gallery hours. Private viewings are available to anyone who would like one. Email [email protected] or call [phone] with a requested date and time at least two days in advance to schedule an appointment.

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Prestige d'Afrique // Toni Silkwave Endpapers // Micro // Bronner Brothers Catalog // Braid Passion Mag  // Raveen // Modu Collection // Deep Water // Jet Mag // Dudley Beauty Corp // Harlem 125 // Ultra Sheen

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"We Wear The Mask" Group Show at Higher Pictures Generation

“We Wear The Mask” at @higherpicturesgeneration curated by photographer D’Angelo Lovell Williams @dangelolovellwilliams ❤️ Exhibiting artists include: Trent Bozeman Nakeya Brown Larry Cook Faith Couch Russell Frederick A.K. Jenkins Clifford Prince King Darryl DeAngelo Terrell Derrick Woods-Morrow Show on view Dec. 21 thru Feb. 27, 2021

Higher Pictures Generation 16 Main Street, Ground Floor Brooklyn, New York 11201

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Brown, who was born in California and raised in Pennsylvania, delivers this warm feeling while exploring and dismantling harmful phrases like “good hair” and the false narrative that comes with it. She tells Voguethat her inspiration comes from “the hair rituals, materials, and traditions of Black women across time periods. So much so that I’ve built my work around photographing rare and cultural objects that embody them.”

-Akilia King profiles my work in the Beauty column of Vogue.

 View more here: https://www.vogue.com/article/how-photographer-nakeya-brown-celebrates-black-hair-care

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“X-pressions: Black Beauty Still Lifes” profiled in Wallpaper*’s Beauty and Grooming column. Read more, here.

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The “X-Pression: Black Beauty Still Lifes” exhibition has been extended virtually until October 4, 2020. See the works on view: https://prezi.com/view/etzleS8fQmDfmGCbupbB/

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“Afro Curls” // © Nakeya Brown 2020

Nakeya Brown explores Black womanhood through hair

“For her latest series, ‘Xpressions: Black Beauty Still Lifes,’ Brown takes us on a nostalgic journey through the rituals and trends that have shaped Black female identity from the mid-century onwards. Pairing beautification devices with books, ads, and homewares from the 1950s to the present day, she positions Black cultural ephemera at the centre of her still life photographs, exploring the connections between beauty practices and self-identity.”

Read the rest of the Wallpaper article highlighting some new images I have been working through.

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Commissioned by TIME to create a photograph for an article by Jasmine Guillory. She reflects on the importance of Black women writing fiction <3 

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MoCADA Presents: The Cookout.... A two-week, multisensory program celebrating Juneteenth + The communal experience of the African diaspora.

The Cookout: Kinfolk and Other Intimacies

The Cookout: Kinfolk and Other Intimacies is a virtual exhibition in celebration of African Diasporan traditions of gathering, particularly ways of togetherness that maintain history, culture, and ritual through active participation. Artists include: Ndidi Emefiele, Evan Ifekoya, Jacolby Satterwhite, Shellyne Rodriguez, Larry Achiampong, Raelis Vasquez, Jessi Jumanji, Jamaal Peterman, E. Jane, Alexis Chivir-ter Tsegba, Zola Savage, Ken Nwadiogbu, Emmanuel Massillon, Melvin Nesbitt Jr., Nakeya Brown, and Lionel Frazier White III

LINK will appear at 7pm EST on June 19.

Curated by Maleke Glee + Amy

More Info: https://mocada.org/digital/

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A chapter via Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry by scholar Tiffany M. Gill.

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“Roots & Roads” curated by Anita N. Bateman

“By examining environments integral to the construction of Black cultural practices, the artists in this exhibition consider the subtle and more direct associations hair has to inherited legacies of dislocation and estrangement, and conversely, belonging.

Exhibiting Artists: Nakeya Brown, Becci Davis, Morel Doucet, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Wangui Maina, Nontsikelelo Mutiti,  Katarra LaRae Peterson, Jay Simple, JulianKnxx, Bryan Keith Thomas, Nafis White, Andrew Wilson, and Nadia Wolff”

Opening Reception

Franklin Street Works

Saturday Feb, 8, 2020

5-8pm

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My work makes its final appearance in Season 4 of insecure on HBO. <3

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I currently have 9 photographs circulating throughout the Netherlands in the “Yearbook” issue of #Linda magazine. Featured series include “Gestures of my Bio-Myth”, “if nostalgia were colored brown”, and “Hair Stories Untold” 

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A photograph from the series, "if nostalgia were colored brown" has been curated into "Roots & Roads" exhibition. On view from February 8 – May 17, 2020, Roots & Roads is a group show curated by Anita N. Bateman which theorizes a connection between hair and landscape as navigational modes for black cultural expression. Learn More: http://www.franklinstreetworks.org/exhibition/roots-roads/

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Excited to share that I have a new photograph published in the latest issue of The New Yorker. It accompanies a piece by award winning author Rion Amiclar Scott entitled "Shape-ups By Delilah's". The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually.

View more at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/07/shape-ups-at-delilahs