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Brooks Turner

Installation Images

  • A brightly lit, white-walled gallery with concrete floors and high ceilings. Four very large-scale woven tapestries hang suspended from the lighting grid, two are mounted on the walls, and an artists’ book in a protective plexi-glass case appears on the right hand side of the image.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Five tapestries, approximately eight ft each tall hover between the floor and lighting grid, casting angular shadows across the museum floor. Staggered into three rows, design elements include typed and handwritten correspondence, a black and white image of two men under a tree, an inverted black and white image of a man wielding a gun.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Close up image of two tapestries. The left textile contains a red stitched outline of a figure using a baseball bat as a weapon.. On the right, there is black typed text on a white background with a faint, ghostly figure.
    Brooks Turner. A Pedagogical Task, 2023 (detail). Installation detail: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
  • Cropped detail view of a textile with newspaper text and a partial headline reading “Can Crush Facism”, against a white, orange, and purple background which are layered in an almost typographical way. Legs outlined in red, stitched thread are mid step on the right side of the image.
    Brooks Turner. A Pedagogical Task, 2023 (detail). Perlman Teaching M useum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
  • A side view of five large-scale woven tapestries, suspended from the lighting grid.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A rear view of five large woven tapestries, suspended from the lighting grid. On the wall in the far back hang two square-sized tapestries with green foliage on the perimeter and figures in the center.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A rear view of a woven tapestry, approximately 8 ft tall. It is sectioned into three parts with the middle depicting a white outline of a figure weilding a baseball inside a blood red rectangular band of color. Above and below are areas of white text against a blended blue, white and brown background.
    Brooks Turner. A Pedagogical Task, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
  • A black and white, historical photograph of two men sitting in the shade of a tree is translated into the medium of tapestry. Black text in a typewriter font runs across the bottom and reads “It is a pedagogical task”.
    Brooks Turner. A Pedagogical Task, 2023 (detail). Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
  • A corner view of three large-scale, woven tapestries mounted to gallery walls. The left textile is a black-and-white image of an officer pointing a gun at a group of men with baseball bats; the background is a wooded area tinted blue. The works on the right wall are a pair which both include black-and-white, historical imagery of figures set against intricate floral backgrounds.The work on the right depicts a funeral procession, and text like a newspaper headline above reads “VOTERS IN REVOLT”.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A pair of tapestries hang side by side. They depict a black-and-white photo of an officer pointing a gun at a group of men wielding baseball bats. There is a blue treescape background. The upper corners of the scene look as if they are torn off, revealing an image of a crowd gathered in a city street and a group of women running a canteen for striking laborers.
    Brooks Turner. The Battle of Deputies Run, 1934, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
  • A pair of tapestries hang closely together. They include historical black-and-white imagery, floral backgrounds, men with a sign, and a funeral procession. The tapestry on the right includes large text at the top that reads “VOTERS IN REVOLT”.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A large tapestry hangs on the wall. The central image is a black and blue mushroom cloud expanding against a pale pink, white, and yellow sky. A ghostly figure and city skyline overlay. White text travels around the outside of the textile within a blue border, with a black fabric backing. The text reads “The Group of Masterminds in Higher Dimensions of Time and Space are Engineering a New Society that is ‘Just Around the Corner’”.
    Brooks Turner. Airborne Toxic Event, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
  • Two large, woven tapestries hang side by side on a wall. The left tapestry has a bright blue background with black and white square headshots scattered throughout. In the middle are four people in front of a bookshelf and trees. The right tapestry is black-and-white and includes a border of square headshots and a newspaper article “Attention- Defence Squad Captains, 544”. The middle depicts an image of a train and landscape photographed from above.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • An establishing view of a gallery with wooden floors and grey walls. On the wall hang eight dye-sublimated prints on satin. Their imagery is drawn from historical newspapers, combined with the artist’s illustrations. These artworks track the rise of fascist organizations and ideologies in Minnesota in the 1930s, in particular, the pro-Nazi organization the Silver Legion of America (or Silvershirts).
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A dye-sublimated print on satin includes a number of prominent businessmen and government officials politically active in Minnesota in the 1930s. Small white text above each figure identifies who they are. of the time in a large stone room with elaborate decorative ceiling and rows of red seating on the left and right. Imagery throughout includes bloody deer carcasses, rifles, and American flags.
    Elk’s Lodge, 2020. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Photo: Eric Mueller
  • Eight lighted dye-sublimated prints on satin hang in a gallery with gray walls and wooden floors. Imagery includes black-and-white text, images, and graphics.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Alt: Three dye-sublimated prints on satin hang side by side in a gray walled art gallery. Imagery includes black-and-white newspaper headline and text, line drawn graphics, and black and white photographs.
    Brooks Turner. Pedagogy and Propaganda, 2023. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Brooks Turner
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This exhibition was supported in part by a grant from the Jerome Foundation

Brooks Turner: Pedagogy and Propaganda

Perlman Teaching Museum
Sept. 21–Nov. 15, 2023
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This page was last updated on 16 May 2024
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