Farewell, Men of Change
Romare Bearden Portrait_Patrick Earl Hammie
SOCIAL JUSTICE BILLBOARD PROJECT
Photograph by John Hock; artwork l-r: © Patrick Earl Hammie; © Jefferson Pinder
I AM… LEGEND
October 23, 2021 – February 12, 2022 Freeport Art Museum121 North Harlem AvenueFreeport, Illinois 61032 Register for Opening Reception I AM… LEGEND is a collection of wall installations and works on paper that study American experiences haunted by racialized angst and terrorism, visualizing how far we go to allay fear and pursue happiness. Referencing Soul Train and early lynching photographs, Hammie explores embedded anxieties and self-heroization, disrupting nostalgia to propose how personal connections to collective experience allows space for empathy and action. Through the lens of the ethno-Gothic, a sub-genre of horror developed in Black speculative culture, Hammie taps into …
Foreword
September 27 – November 13, 2021 Crooked Tree Arts Center – Traverse City322 Sixth StreetTraverse City, MI 49684(231) 941-9488 Foreward centers a Black family’s intergenerational acts of survival, rebellion, and hope. These experiences are too often buried behind leading news stories not typically curated by, or considerate of, Black people’s needs and knowledge. Illinois-based artist Patrick Earl Hammie uses figuration across traditional media to examine past and present black diasporic experiences and themes related to cultural identity, social equity, narrative, and the body in visual culture. Through portraits and allegories, Hammie explores the complexities of identity, emotion, and family by layering …
Patrick Earl Hammie: Cultural Identity, Social Equity and the Black Body
BY OILVER ENWONWU AND OYINDAMOLA OLANIYAN Interview with Omenka, Africa’s premium art, business, and luxury-lifestyle magazine. View original post or read 👇🏽 In the third part of our continuing series on artists in diaspora who promote Black identity and pride through their work, we present Patrick Earl Hammie, an African-American visual artist. Patrick Earl Hammie is best known for his large-scale portrait and figurative paintings, which draw from art history and visual culture to examine cultural identity, social equity, and critical aspects of gender and race. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he received his BA from Coker College and his MFA from the …
Art Now! – Episode 95 – Patrick Earl Hammie
BY RACHEL STORM AND JASON LIGGETT Visual Artist, Patrick Earl Hammie, speaks about his artwork on this episode of Art Now. Art Now is an award-winning mini-documentary series that has produced over 90 episodes on local artists working in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding areas since July 2010. A joint production by the Urbana Public Arts Program and Urbana Public Television, Art Now highlights members of Urbana’s creative community and introduces local artists to the viewers of the program. For more information, visit: urbanaillinois.us/artnow. Artist: Patrick Earl Hammie Director/Editor: Jason Liggett Interviewer: Rachel Storm ♫Music By♫ ●Burbank – Sorry I Like You …
Oedipus Joins David C. Driskell Center Art Collection
This spring Oedipus joins the David C. Driskell Center’s Art Collection. The collection includes drawings, paintings, prints, mixed media, and sculptures, with works by artists such as Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Keith Morrison, Faith Ringgold, Augusta Savage, William T. Williams, and Charles White. Many thanks to Executive Director Prof. Curlee Raven Holton and Deputy Director Dorit Yaron! It’s a great pleasure to join the collection.
Portraits of Who We Are
BY CURLEE R. HOLTON February 1, 2018 – May 18, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, February 1, 5pm – 7pm DAVID C. DRISKELL CENTER 1214 Cole Student Activities Building College Park, MD 20742 The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland is proud to announce its spring exhibition, Portraits of Who We Are, a group exhibition that focuses on self-portraits by African American artists and portraits of African American artists created by their colleagues. The exhibition includes more than 50 works that span from 1915 to 2017 …
Birth Throes
SOLO EXHIBITION October 6, 2017 – September 22, 2018 RECEPTION: Friday, October 6, 5pm – 8pm CONVERSATION: Sunday, October 8, 12:30 pm. KRUGER GALLERY 212 E San Antonio St. Marfa, TX 79843 Kruger Gallery and I are very pleased to announce and invite you to Birth Throes, my second solo exhibition with the gallery, debuting in Marfa during Chinati Weekend. Birth Throes is a new collection of portraits and allegories that meditate on the relationship between me and my mother, mortality, and the capacity for black experience to disrupt, diversify, and enrich American culture. Informed by personal experience, shifting American demographics that forecast a black and brown …
Aureole
SOLO EXHIBITION September 29 – November 19, 2017 ARTIST TALK: Friday, September 29, 6 pm RECEPTION: Friday, September 29, 7 pm– 8pm WRISTON ART CENTER Lawrence University 613 E College Ave. Appleton, WI 54911