Art Review In this Bay Area artist’s hands, weaving becomes a site of experimentation and refusal. Diedrick Brackens, "Blood Compass"(2023) (all photos Natasha Boas/ Hyperallergic ) SAN FRANCISCO — What does a weaver weave today? That's a question that San Francisco-based textile artist Diedrick Brackens asks himself perennially. In a new exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, he offers a visually arresting and deeply moving answer. Guest-curated by Eungie Joo, gather tender night marks Brackens’s first solo exhibition in the Bay Area and a return to the region where he received his MFA in 2014 at the California College of the Arts (CCA). Bringing together 15 tapestries made since 2020 and three new works from 2026 shown here for the first time, this homecoming exhibition unfolds as a meditation on personal memory, myth, and the natural world.…