Bio
Brejenn Allen is a Mississippi-based visual artist whose practice centers the African American experience in the South as a home for joy, familiarity, and quiet rebellion. Her work captures moments of everyday life in her town, the body, humor, and overlooked objects. Through layered paint, texture, and found materials, she builds surfaces that echo the complexities of the lives she paints. Allen holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her practice continues to grow through exhibitions, teaching, and community-centered work, drawing collectors who value work founded in place, story, and lived experience.
Artist Statement
Brejenn Allen is a Mississippi-based visual artist whose practice captures the African American experience in the South by depicting her everyday life, the body, humor, and overlooked objects through painting and mixed media. She layers traditional painting with impasto texture, subtle abstraction, and the history, emotions, and nuance of found objects to emphasize resilience and rest as resistance and to provide an honest counterpart to the trendy stereotypes of Southern life. Her work serves as both documentation and an invitation into her town to witness the beauty, dignity, and meaning a part of our everyday lives and the places we call home.