09/28/2025
Bre’Ann White
Masterpiece II, 2025
Photograph
Framed: 16 x 20 inches
40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 2
In the Life: Black Q***rness—Looking Back, Moving Forward (September 5–October 11, 2025, the Carr Center, Detroit) brings together intergenerational artists exploring intimacy, kinship, and historical reinvention through the lens of Black Q***rness. Co-curated by patrick burton and Wayne Northcross, the exhibition spans photography, painting, drawing, and archival intervention, reframing community through chosen kinship and familial memory. Exhibiting artists: April Bey, John Edmonds, Alanna Fields, LeRoy Foster, Clifford Prince King, Richard Lewis, Felicita “Felli” Maynard, Zanele Muholi, Vernando Reuben, Tylonn J. Sawyer, Pamela Sneed, Bre’Ann White, and Anthony Peyton Young.
Bre’Ann White (b. 1988, Detroit, MI) is a Detroit-based photographer and creative director whose portraiture merges cinematic style with emotional intimacy, exploring the fullness of Black identity, beauty, and presence. Rooted in Detroit’s creative ecosystems and largely self-taught, her practice spans fine art and editorial photography, challenging dominant representations while foregrounding narrative, styling, and visual sovereignty. Her portraits often function as windows into selfhood—resilient, adorned, and defiantly seen.
For In the Life, White presents Masterpiece II (2023), a photographic work that affirms both visibility and opacity as acts of beauty. As the artist states: “What we are, in the shadow and in the light, is art enough.”
White’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has appeared in campaigns for major brands, consistently emphasizing authenticity and empowerment. Her portraits have been shown at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and the Arab American National Museum, and her images circulate widely in Detroit’s creative and cultural landscapes.
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