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Solange performed at SFMOMA's Birthday Back-bite on Wednesday, April 26.

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Solange performed at SFMOMA's Birthday Back-bite on Wednesday, April 26.

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Solange performed at SFMOMA's Birthday Back-bite on Wednesday, April 26.

Solange celebrates atramentous at bright SFMOMA bash

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art apparent the aboriginal ceremony of its amplification by hosting a admirable Birthday Back-bite on Wednesday, April 26, area attendees were encouraged to abrasion adventurous monochromatic colors.

But no blush was added acclaimed than atramentous back Solange Knowles hit the stage.

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Yes, the Grammy Award-winning accompanist and her associates wore all red, mostly bathed in amethyst and dejected lights during the concert. Yet assuming several songs off her latest release, “A Seat at the Table,” the bulletin was clear: Atramentous is beautiful.

Solange, the adolescent sister of superstar Beyoncé, appear her third flat anthology in September at the acme of ancestral and political tensions in the United States. But it was her constant acquaintance with ancestral and gender asperity that fueled the piercing-hot lyrics on the 21-track album.

Songs like “Weary” (“I'm weary of the agency of the world/ Be weary of the agency of the world”) and “Junie” (But what you gonna do/ Back they saw all your moves and accomplished em daily?/ Protect your neck, or accord invitations?”) abode the plight of atramentous women and the allotment of atramentous culture.

One advantageous fan, Toynessa Epstein of East Oakland, got a diffuse carol from Solange during “F.U.B.U.,” whose appellation was aggressive by the hip-hop accoutrement aggregation “For Us By Us,” which was founded in the aboriginal ’90s. The song speaks about confiscation and how “This s— is for us ... Some s— you can’t touch.”

“That music gives us a articulation back you don’t accept words to put to what you accomplished in assignment and in school,” said the 29-year-old Epstein. “Even as I was here, actuality a atramentous woman and accepting white women aloof advance and boost me to get to the front, it was so disrespectful. She speaks to that.”

Indeed, a action about bankrupt out in advanced of the date at one point during the achievement as admirers pushed forward. After the show, in the restrooms, eyes formed adamantine as some white women sang “Don’t Blow My Hair” — a annotation on how atramentous women’s beard is not a sideshow and is an announcement of atramentous pride — while discussing how abundant they spent on a blast beforehand in the day for the bash.

But during the hourlong show, at atomic for Epstein, it was a moment of empowerment for women of color.

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“It was actually amazing because her anthology aggressive me so abundant this aftermost year as a atramentous woman,” Epstein said. “Finishing my master’s and starting my doctorate, her anthology actually helped me.” Epstein said she afresh becoming her master’s amount in burghal apprenticeship at Holy Names University and is now enrolled at Mills College for her Ph.D. in apprenticeship leadership.

“I’m an drillmaster in the Oakland Unified Academy District, and her anthology was a affair with my acceptance during the academy year back we talked about Atramentous Lives Matter and in talking about atramentous — abnormally in talking with atramentous adolescent girls,” Epstein said. “It’s aloof been a transformative anthology and personifies what it agency to be a atramentous woman.”

Solange’s achievement wasn’t candidly political, however, and did accept a celebratory vibe to it.

“San Francisco MOMA, we’re gonna ball a little bit tonight,” she told the crowd, which abounding the museum’s Third Street antechamber and lined the staircase. “I appetite all y’all to put abroad y’all’s phones and alive in this moment appropriate now.”

The SFMOMA concert was allotment of Solange’s untraditional bout for “A Seat at the Table,” which she affairs to accompany to several museums beyond the country, including the Guggenheim in New York. These shows, according to an account with Complex, are altered in that Solange considers them “performance pieces — and added in the art context” than the sets she affairs to accomplish on the anniversary ambit this summer.

Solange is appointed to acknowledgment to San Francisco for Outside Lands in August.

Mariecar Mendoza is The San Francisco Chronicle arts agreeable editor. Email: mmendoza@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SFMarMendoza Instagram: @sfchronicle_scene

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