Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Bay Area, featuring fifteen weavings created since 2020, that consider tenderness, migration, and connections with the natural world.
Executed on the loom in hand-dyed, cotton fiber and acrylic yarn, Brackens’s works convey a masterful and meditative process of physical discovery and storytelling. For the artist, the outdoors is an important space for queer folks to be themselves and participate in spaces of desire and sensuality freely. Throughout the exhibition, single and paired figures exist in resplendent depictions of water, flora, and fauna, launching the viewer’s imagination.
Organized by guest curator Eungie Joo, the exhibition includes three new works that explore Brackens recent impulse to arrive home—to bring things inside to rest and ruminate, inhabit space, and be cared for.
Diedrick Brackens and Eungie Joo will be in conversation on Saturday, March 14 at 12pm. Additional public programs and community gatherings will be announced soon.
Gallery 2, First Floor Galleries, YBCA
Exhibition opens Friday, March 13, 2026.
*Free admission for Youth, Military Personnel, and Museums for All.
Employees of other museums with current valid staff ID receive free general admission for themselves and one guest. Entry ticket must be obtained onsite at YBCA’s Ticketing desk.
