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🎨✊🏾 YOU ARE INVITED ✊🏾🎨BLACKNIFICENT Vol. 3
A Solo Exhibition & Retrospective by Ron Brown
20 Years of Vision. 20 Years of Truth. 20 Years of Becoming.
Opening: Juneteenth — Friday, June 19, 2026, 5-9 pm
ArT @ 967 Payne | 967 Payne Ave, St. Paul, MN
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This is not just an art show. This is a reckoning. A celebration. A homecoming.
For two decades, Ron Brown has created Afrocentric, hip-hop–infused, unapologetic work across canvas, wood furniture, and clothing. Blacknificent Vol. 3 honors that journey through three immersive chapters:
🪑 Section I: The Living Room — Where We Gather
The gallery transforms into a sacred Black living room — where hand-crafted furniture becomes testimony, and home is honored as the original site of resistance, culture, and inheritance.
🎤 Section II: I Used 2 Love H.E.R. — An Ode to Hip-Hop
A visual love letter to the culture. Bold, layered, graffiti-influenced canvases and wearable art explore hip-hop not just as music — but as philosophy, survival, protest, and poetry.
🌍 Section III: Conversations with Wisdom — Communion with the Ancestors
The exhibition becomes spiritual. African tribal visual language, ancestral symbolism, and afrofuturistic imagery converge in a sacred dialogue that bridges the ancient and the yet-to-come.
Hip-hop provides the language.
Jazz provides the improvisation.
The art provides the evidence.
And the question that will linger long after you leave: "If we know who we are… What are we going to build next?"
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Join us on Juneteenth to experience this powerful retrospective. More details on opening reception and associated happenings to follow.
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967 Payne Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Minnesota 55130, 967 Payne Ave, St Paul, MN 55130-3901, United States
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