{"title":"HARDY","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-speedy-cash","title":"The Speedy Cash","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePart of the ongoing Ride Along series, Allen documents a structure she encounters in her Mississippi town, an old gas station transformed into a neon quick-loan storefront.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe vivid colors of the station and sunset mesh into scenery that feels destined, but the desperation and boldness of the subject matter are almost comical. Allen heightens the physicality of the surface with dense impasto painting and mixed media, putting us in the passenger seat of her car and translating a fleeting photographic moment into a materially rich meditation on place, economic reality, and the evolving Southern landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1164\" data-end=\"1521\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis piece was selected for the South Arts State Prize \u0026amp; Fellowship Traveling Exhibition. 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What may feel unfamiliar to some viewers is rendered here without spectacle, instead situated within the everyday rhythm of roadside commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"1012\"\u003eThrough textured acrylic and restrained composition, Allen frames the moment as both a cultural archive and a portrait of resilience. The repurposed canopy, the handwritten sign, and the stillness of the figures speak to adaptation, resourcefulness, and inherited tradition. As with much of her work, the painting honors what is often overlooked—revealing a localized practice as part of a broader narrative of Southern ingenuity, survival, and community memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brejenn Allen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48081900601499,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/5297\/0651\/files\/WhiteDirt.jpg?v=1772500808"},{"product_id":"dolla-gentral-copy","title":"Where Y'all Be Fishing At?","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“Where y’all be fishing at?” is a question every Mississippi fisherman knows, and answering it honestly means giving something up. A good fisherman keeps their spot private, and this painting is Allen’s. Returning home from the Art Institute of Chicago or from travels abroad, the bank was often the first place she went. Her signature acrylic nails are not an incidental detail; they speak to the duality Allen carries as a woman who is equally at ease with femininity and the outdoors. The viewer is placed in her position at the water’s edge, inheriting the quiet and the anticipation of waiting for a bite at a place most people will never find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis piece was selected for the South Arts State Prize \u0026amp; Fellowship Traveling Exhibition. 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This work is accompanied by a short story Allen wrote that captures the importance of old trucks to families in Mississippi. It is available on Substack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brejenn Allen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48769086718107,"sku":null,"price":1050.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/5297\/0651\/files\/IMG_9703.jpg?v=1781458640"},{"product_id":"trail-ride-leaves-at-3","title":"Trail Ride Leaves at 3","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn Southern Black culture, a trail ride is a large community gathering in an open pasture where four-wheelers and horses share space with line dancing, food, drinks, and neighbors who have known each other for decades. This painting places the viewer inside one of those nights as Allen paints this scene from the inside, as a participant among old classmates, family, and neighbors, rather than an observer documenting something foreign. The work is a portrait of rural nightlife and a reminder that joy, community, and the land itself have always been central to how these spaces sustain the people who belong to them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brejenn Allen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48769121550491,"sku":null,"price":1050.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/5297\/0651\/files\/IMG_9704.jpg?v=1781458773"},{"product_id":"watch-for-snakes","title":"Boots on the Ground","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAllen captures her sister and a friend line dancing across a pasture at the 45 Problem Solvers trail ride. Their boots are the only thing visible; one pair decorated with two giant orange bows, the other hidden beneath jeans. He is queer, and she is pregnant, but the boots keep those secrets the way Mississippi keeps secrets, without even trying. What reads as a simple scene of movement and joy is also a painting about coming of age, about doing what you have always done in a place that is slow to change, and about the particular freedom of a body that knows exactly how to dance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brejenn Allen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48769150746779,"sku":null,"price":3610.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/5297\/0651\/files\/IMG_9708.jpg?v=1781459150"},{"product_id":"watch-for-snakes-1","title":"Watch for Snakes","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn Mississippi summers, grass grows faster than life sometimes allows. This painting is a close-up of the uncut land at Allen’s family property during her father’s illness, a season when ordinary maintenance gave way to caregiving. The tall grass that fills the canvas is not just overgrowth; in rural Mississippi, it is a safety concern. Snakes move through it unseen, and the task of keeping it cut is one of the quiet ways a father protects his family. Allen captures the particular anxiety of walking through that grass alone, stopping, watching, and doing what needed to be done in his absence. The painting asks viewers to reconsider what we call a chore, and who we rely on to keep us safe in ways we rarely name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis piece was selected for the South Arts State Prize \u0026amp; Fellowship Traveling Exhibition. 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Allen connects the stories with winding dirt roads made from clay dirt from a ridge at her home, passed down through her mother from her great-great-grandmother, Georgia Cotton, a Master’s Child. 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