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Tiff Massey Celebrates Detroit Tradition and Fashion in Monumental Blended-Media Installations

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From larger-than-life double-bobble hair bands to a wall of elaborate braids, Tiff Massey spotlights distinctive Detroit fashion. Skilled as a metalsmith, the artist employs the facility of fabric and scale to focus on the town’s neighborhoods and Black identification and tradition.

7 Mile + Livernois, Massey’s solo exhibition on the Detroit Institute of Arts, takes inspiration from the crossroads on the coronary heart of the town’s Black enterprise and style district, the place the artist grew up. The realm will quickly be dwelling to a brand new arts and neighborhood area that Massey is spearheading in an effort to information and have fun native kinship.

“Everyday Arsenal” (2018)

Private adornment is central to the artist’s expression, which she channels by way of jewellery, sculptures, and mixed-media assemblages to underscore Black fashion with a deal with her hometown. “Whatupdoe” and “Everyday Arsenal,” for instance, respectively remodel a up to date chain necklace and silver rings into monumental installations, creating terrains of portal-like tunnels and interlocked angles.

The “ancestral flyness” of the artist’s mother and father and former generations additionally gives a limitless properly of inspiration. “How they adorned themselves has definitely been influential not only to how I adorn myself but also to the ideas that I have within the works,” Massey says in an interview for the DIA exhibition catalogue. “Detroiters, when we step outside, we step outside. We want people to see it. We want people to see us. And that has left a tremendous impression on me.”

7 Mile + Livernois continues by way of Could 11. Discover extra on the artist’s web site and Instagram.

a wall installation of several oversized red ball hair ties on a black wall
“Baby Bling” (2023)
a museum installation of large cubic metal frames interlocked in a giant jumble, inside of a room painted black
“Whatupdoe” (2024)
a detail of an art installation of numerous green wigs in a variety of braided styles on a black wall
Element of “I’ve Got Bundles and I Got Flewed Out (Green)”

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