“Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,” on view at the Brooklyn Museum contextualizes Rowe’s practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation for a Black woman artist living and working in the American South.

“What it is,” 1978-82

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“Really Free: The Radical Art of is on view at the High Museum of Art thru January 9th.

Pictured here is ‘Real Girl’ (1980) one of many drawings where Rowe embedded a picture of herself, embracing various visible dimensions of her identity + their intersections.

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