Jevon Brown
Biography
Jevon Brown is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. He received his BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2023. Brown’s work explores black masculine kindred barbershops. Artifacts and cultural icons within my environments defy pattern, gravity, family roots, and personal history embedded within each fiber of his hair. He uses textiles to drape storytelling, connecting my Miami and Caribbean ancestry. Each thread of fabric is imbued with black, queer affirmations, symbols, and colors. He cites popular culture, Caribbean poetry, and queer yardie dynamics to question contemporary culture and hyper sexualized masculine in the Caribbean diaspora. Drawing, painting, dying, collaging, printmaking, pattern design, fiber art, digital processes are techniques I employ to develop Caribbean carnival creolized interiors. Brown’s work has been shown in institutions such as the University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum. He has also been featured in Dwell Magazines 24 Global Emerging Designers list 2023.