Adrian Burrell
Home Again, 2016/2018

Archival pigment print, 28 x 40 inches
Edition 1/5, signed, front
Framed
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $4,800
*The artist may impose additional requirements on sale.

From the series "Mama's Babies"

A point of departure on the way back. Adrian Burrell visits Dakar, Senegal, and the Door of No Return as he tracks the traces of his ancestors from Louisiana back to West Africa. Using his camera to gather and create fragments that span lifetimes and space, Adrian explores Black kinship's fluidity, posing questions about the gaps between place and belonging.

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About the Artist:
Adrian Burrell

Adrian L. Burrell is a third-generation Oakland filmmaker who uses photography, film, and site-specific installation to examine issues of race, class, gender, and intergenerational dynamics. His work focuses on notions of kinship, diasporic narratives, and the gaps between place and belonging. Adrian’s series, It’s After the End of the World, Don’t You Know That Yet?, is a collective self-portrait that examines the normalized violence inflicted on Black lives in American society. The series was exhibited at SFMOMA March 7, 2021 through September 6, 2021. His series “Mama’s Babies” traces his family’s history through slavery, the Great Migration, the crack era, and the current displacement of Black people in Oakland through gentrification.

Adrian won the 2019 SF Camerawork Juror’s Choice Award and is a 2021 YBCA creative cohort fellow. He has lived and worked on four continents and has exhibited work in spaces as varied as the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, Photoville in New York City, Pop-Up Magazine, and most recently, SFMOMA. A United States Marine Corps veteran, Adrian earned a BFA in film from the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently earning his MFA from Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History, where he serves as the Black graduate student community outreach chair.

Website: adrianburrell.com
Instagram: @1.living
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