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 …

John Chang + Patrick Earl Hammie: Body/Type at Cannon Gallery

February 3, 2014

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

January 31, 2014

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

January 20, 2014

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

Significant Other at Porter Butts Gallery

January 13, 2014

SOLO EXHIBITION February 7 – March 25, 2014 RECEPTION: Friday, February 7, 6pm – 8pm PORTER BUTTS GALLERY UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 207 E. Buffalo St. Madison, WI 53706 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 imagines bodies as occasions for …

Open Call: Who We Aren’t National Juried Exhibition

December 23, 2013

UNION STREET GALLERY FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 29, 2014 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. Artists from around the nation are invited to submit self portraits that explore alter egos, secret identities, or fictional personas created to hide behind or act out fantasies. Art might depict figures donning masks, disguises or costumes, a social media persona, or the portrait of who we really want to be but can’t. Works that interpret the theme must be figurative, including the human …

Twelve Artists Under 35 Years to Follow – Line & Stylish Art Magazine

December 2, 2013

BY EDUARDO SILVIA Published by Line & Stylish Art Magazine, a monthly publication, exclusively edited in digital format and distributed free to its subscribers. Fellow artists featured include: Alexey Chizhov Benjamin Garcia Chrissy Angliker Daniel Ochoa Eric Pedersen Federico Infante Hayv Kahram Jason Bard Yarmosky Julien Spianti Kamalky Laureano Lionel Smit

Patrick Earl Hammie at Gallery Gray

September 23, 2013

SOLO EXHIBITION October 4 – 31, 2013 GALLERY GRAY Location: Online Gallery Hours: 24/7 365 Perhaps more than any other form of image-making, figurative painting is often read as a mirror of the time in which it is made; the canvas might be uniquely valued as a type of sociohistorical document. Exploring the tension between power and vulnerability, Hammie’s paintings question historical constructions of gender and race to expand the filters through which identity is understood. Blending traditions of the Old Masters with contemporary modes of representation, his portraits use body language and narrative to reconfigure inherited conceptions of ideal …

Dialogist: Quarterly Journal of Poetry & Art

September 2, 2013

BY MICHAEL LORUSS A Quarterly Journal of Poetry & Art ISSN 2331-6888 www.dialogist.org

Super Hot Artist for 2013

August 5, 2013

Artbook Guy, Michael K. Corbin names me a Super Hot Artist for 2013! We sat down recently for an interview. Read below or view original post. AS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN LIVING AND WORKING IN THE U.S. RIGHT NOW, I CAN’T HELP BUT BE AFFECTED BY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONVERSATIONS AND ACTIONS, ESPECIALLY ISSUES AROUND RACE AND GENDER. PATRICK EARL HAMMIE: NARRATIVE LAYERS Patrick Earl Hammie is an Illinois-based artist and art professor. His work is absolutely stunning and poignant. What I love most about it is the fact that his work comes from a specific place inside of him, but it’s multi-layered and …