A Dreaming Hour

Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and the fourth installment of Cranbrook Art Museum’s Fresh Paint series, which highlights recent work from Detroit-area contemporary artists.

Situated in the North Gallery, Brionne will display a new body of large multipaneled works depicting Afrosurreal worlds, built from personal and archival reference points, posing themes of awareness, perception, and spiritual and embodied knowledge. Centered on a mythical forest as a site of refuge, Brionne invites visitors to rest and commune. Foregrounding Brionne’s background in photography, these compositions also repeat and reframe the compositional modes of the panorama, portrait, and landscape to new ends.

Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour is organized by Cranbrook Art Museum and curated by Katy Kim, the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Curatorial Fellow, with support from Laura Mott, Chief Curator. This exhibition is generously supported by the Gilbert Family Foundation and the Deroy Testamentary Foundation.

Source: Cranbrook Art Museum website