Black on Black on Black on Black

September 14, 2022

Krannert Art Museum500 E Peabody DrChampaign, IL 61820 September 22 – December 10, 2022 September 24PYGMALION programming: 12-3 p.m.Panel discussion: 3 p.m.Reception: 4-6 p.m. This exhibition includes work by Patrick Earl Hammie, Stacey Robinson, Blair Ebony Smith, and Nekita Thomas, presented through the lens of the Black Quantum Future, as proposed by Philadelphia-based activists and theorists Rasheeda Phillips and Camae Ayewa. The exhibition is a critical and openly reflective space exploring Black identity, collectivity, positionality, healing, innovation, and education. CLICK HERE TO TOUR MY WORK IN THE EXHIBITION The artists have curated a companion lecture series, community conversations, and a catalogue in conjunction with the exhibition. Find dates …

I AM… LEGEND

October 12, 2021

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 20, 2021

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 …

Art Now! – Episode 95 – Patrick Earl Hammie

November 14, 2018

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 …

Full Blede Issue Five: The Artifact

June 22, 2018

BY SACHA BAUMANN Glad to have Oedipus featured on the cover of Full Blede Issue Five: The Artifact. It’s great to be included among an amazing group of artists. Thanks Sacha Baumann for bringing us together. In Issue Five: The Artifact, the broadsheet’s collaborators explore that which remains. For some, artifact is a quiet reminder that lingers at present, whether it is outdated or revered; a subtle and sometimes loud ghost of what once was. Artifact also suggests habits, repeated gestures, and behavior. Issue five launched at Chimento Contemporary, in conjunction with the opening reception of Forrest Kirk: Body Count on June 22, …

Oedipus Joins David C. Driskell Center Art Collection

March 26, 2018

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

January 15, 2018

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

September 11, 2017

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

September 4, 2017

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

Impolite-ic Politics

January 9, 2017

BY MATTHEW IVAN CHERRY February 2, 2017 – March 5, 2017 Panel and reception (RESCHEDULED): Thursday, February 16, 5 – 8pm Matthew Ivan Cherry – Cesar Conde – Patrick Earl Hammie LUNDER ARTS CENTER 1801 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02239 IMPOLITE-IC POLITICS – is an exhibition of large-scale portrait paintings by Matthew Ivan Cherry, Cesar Conde, and Patrick Earl Hammie that considers the state of black and brown male and LGBTQ lives in America to explore gendered and racialized biases and stereotypes, religion, and rights. Through allegory, personal narrative, and portraiture the show proposes how minority experiences can examine, disrupt, and enrich our inherited narratives toward constructive action, discourse, and …

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