Demetri Broxton — Ancestral Echoes: Crops of Empire

Japanese glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, recycled glass, 24-karat gold-plated brass, rayon chainette, wool, Nymo thread, serigraph on Japanese sateen cotton, goat-hair canvas, birch board. That is the material list for one panel, 59 by 29 inches. Broxton works from family photographs whose subjects were never named, tracing the move from the American South out to Oakland, and beads the gaps rather than filling them. MoAD's Salon gallery, 685 Mission Street, through August 16.