Premortem

October 13, 2014

SOLO EXHIBITION + LECTURE October 27 – November 28, 2014 RECEPTION: Friday, November 14, 6:00pm – 8:00pm LECTURE: Thursday, November 13, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, in VA 111 VISUAL ARTS GALLERY UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82070 Patrick Earl Hammie: Premortem is a collection of new drawings that focus on closely cropped portraits to explore themes related to agency, maternity, and mortality. Considering the potential representations of the human figure have to reflect the values of the period in which they are produced, Hammie’s work investigates the expectations built into this canonical genre, probing and dismantling the idealizing impulses that have historically shaped it. Drawing on the emotive …

Curator’s Choice National Self-Portrait Exhibition

June 30, 2014

BY SERGIO GOMEZ July 18 – August 30, 2014 RECEPTION: Friday, July 18, 7pm – 10pm ZHOU B ART CENTER 1029 W. 35th St. Chicago, IL 60609 The National Self Portrait Exhibition was born in 2005 at then 33 Collective Gallery as a way to explore and document the long history, and practice of self portraiture in contemporary art. This year, the National Self-Portrait Exhibition comes to an end as it reaches its tenth year anniversary. To celebrate the 10th and final exhibition, curator Sergio Gomez has personally invited a selection of artists from the last ten years.

The Intuitionists

June 16, 2014

BY STEFFANI JEMISON, HEATHER HART, AND JINA VALENTINE, ORGANIZED BY LISA SIGAL July 11 – August 24, 2014 RECEPTION: Thursday, July 10, 6 – 8pm THE DRAWING CENTER 35 Wooster Street SoHo, New York 10013 The Drawing Center will present The Intuitionists, a collaborative project curated by artists Steffani Jemison, Heather Hart, and Jina Valentine, and organized by Lisa Sigal, Open Sessions Curator. Inspired by Colson Whitehead’s 1999 novel The Intuitionist—a work of speculative fiction that explores the relationship between progress, technology, and difference—the exhibition considers how the collection, the database, and the aggregate serve as complementary models for the organization of information and objects …

Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation

April 14, 2014

GROUP EXHIBITION Through August 31, 2014 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 and Kohler Co. Bust of an American Man (Early 21st Century), 2011-13, plaster. …

Fixation

March 31, 2014

BY SERGIO GOMEZ AND DIDI MENENDEZ April 18 – May 11, 2014 RECEPTION: Friday, April 18, 7pm – 10pm ZHOU B ART CENTER 1029 W. 35th St. Chicago, IL 60609 Fixation is a group exhibition and a publication of art and poetry focused on the physical or psychological preoccupation or obsession over an object or subject. The exhibition is curated by Sergio Gomez of Chicago’s Zhou B Art Center and Didi Menendez of PoetsArtists Magazine. Order exhibition catalog on Amazon.

Artist A Day – Guest Curator: Patrick Earl Hammie

March 10, 2014

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.

Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation

February 24, 2014

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

February 24, 2014

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 …

The (Un)Fair

February 10, 2014

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 …

Premortem

Artist A Day – Guest Curator: Patrick Earl Hammie

Significant Other at Elon University

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