Artist A Day – Guest Curator: Patrick Earl Hammie
Artistaday.com asked me to review and curate a selection of 5 artist to highlight from their archive. It was an honor to be asked, and difficult to select only 5 from such an outstanding list.
Interview with MODA Magazine
BY BRONTE MANSFIELD MODA Magazine and I recently sat down for an interview. Read below or view original post. THE GALLERINA: SIGNIFICANT OTHER-INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST PATRICK EARL HAMMIE Currently on view at the Porter Butts Gallery in the Memorial Union is an exhibition titled “Significant Other” by Patrick Earl Hammie. Hammie’s large oil paintings of a couple have an impressive presence in the gallery. The couple, whose nude bodies interact in striking, thought-provoking compositions, are initially a shock to the system of any twenty-something raised in our still-Puritanical culture; we are, even now, not accustomed to viewing the naked human body, and …
Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation
GROUP EXHIBITION RECEPTION: Friday, March 22, 6pm – 9pm. Click here for details or to purchase tickets. JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER 608 New York Ave. Sheboygan, WI 53081 ARTS/INDUSTRY: COLLABORATION AND REVELATION is the first-ever retrospective exhibition of the Arts Center’s world-renowned Arts/Industry residency program. This sweeping exhibition surveys more than 350 works of art created by artists using the materials and processes of plumbingware manufacturer Kohler Co. Installed throughout twelve of the Arts Center’s galleries, the exhibition is curated by Arts/Industry’s founder, Director Ruth DeYoung Kohler, and draws primarily from the permanent collections of the Arts Center …
Significant Other at Elon University
SOLO EXHIBITION March 14 – April 15, 2014 RECEPTION: Monday, March 17, 12:30pm – 2:30pm ARTIST TALK: Monday, March 17, 5pm – 6pm GALLERY 406 ELON UNIVERSITY 406 W. Haggard Ave. Elon, NC 27244 Significant Other, the conceptual sequel to Patrick Earl Hammie’s 2008 project Imperfect Colossi, presents a female and a male figure locked in a physical dialogue, hefting weight, and relocating the perceptions of ruined and objectified bodies that recall and carry on complex legacies of suffering and struggle. Drawing on the emotive qualities of Romanticist painting and its use of heroic proportions to engage with political and humanistic expression, he …
Who We Aren’t
CO-JURIED BY PAUL KLEIN AND PATRICK EARL HAMMIE GROUP EXHIBITION Self portraits do not have to be a true depiction of the self. In art we have the creative license to make ourselves into anyone we want to be. Who We aren’t is an exhibit of self portraits that explore alter egos, secret identities, fictional personas, and manifested stereotypes. Identities depicted in this exhibit are opposite or far from that of the artists. Who We Aren’t includes 50 works of art by 43 artists from 18 different states. February 26 – March 29, 2014 UNION STREET GALLERY Western Oregon University 1527 Otto Blvd. …
Lecture at University of Iowa
PUBLIC LECTURE Thursday, March 6, 6pm – 7pm SCHOOL OF ART AND ART HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 141 N. Riverside Dr. Iowa City, IA 52242 Patrick Earl Hammie will discuss his recent project Significant Other, the conceptual sequel to his 2008 project Imperfect Colossi. This work presents a female and a male figure locked in a physical dialogue, hefting weight, and relocating the perceptions of ruined and objectified bodies that recall and carry on complex legacies of suffering and struggle. Informed by historical representations of Otherness, and recent shifts that locate women and people of color as central influencers of culture and politics, this series …
The (Un)Fair
BY MIKEL GLASS AND JEN WALLACE See my work March 5 – 9 during Armory Arts Week in NY at THE(UN)FAIR, located two blocks from the Armory Art Show at Pier 92. The curatorial theme for 2014 is “Exploring the Divide.” Mindful of the current climate of political and social polarization, THE(UN)FAIR will pull together art and people wtih disparate views to create an environment to consider what connects and divides us. March 5 – 9, 2014 11am – 8pm free to the public Opening Party: 3/5, 8-10pm free Benefit Party: 3/6, 8-10pm $20 Closing Party: 3/9, 8-10pm free 500 W 52nd St. New …
John Chang + Patrick Earl Hammie: Body/Type at Cannon Gallery
CURATED BY PAULA BOOTH TWO PERSON EXHIBITION February 24 – March 21, 2014 CANNON GALLERY Western Oregon University 345 N. Monmouth Ave. Monmouth, Oregon 97361
Interview with Combustus Magazine
BY DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY Combustus Magazine and I recently sat down for an interview. Read below or view original post. IS THE IMPENETRABLE BLACK MALE A MODERN HEROIC MYTH? CONVERSATION WITH CHICAGO FIGURATIVE PAINTER PATRICK EARL HAMMIE Patrick Earl Hammie’s paintings are immediate, courageous, authentic. From his interracial couples posed in a re-envisioned dance of intimacy, to his unidealized portraits of the Black male nude caught in moments of vulnerability, Patrick Earl Hammie challenges, subtly and sometimes not so subtly, what we think we know and what we have come to expect. And yet, there is also that feeling of recognition. Because who Hammie is ultimately …
Representations of Race/Gender in the Art World’s Recent Past and Today
ORGANIZED BY ALISHA M. ELLIOT Through works by artist of the African Diaspora from 1984 to today, I will discuss representation of black artists and bodies in the recent art world, and facilitate a conversation about how artists and their representations of minorities are participating in popular media. FEBRUARY 5, from 12pm – 1pm Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 708 S. Mathews St. Urbana, IL 61801