Imperfect Exchange

August 19, 2019

BY KYLE COHLMIA September 9 – October 10, 2019PANEL DISCUSSION: Wednesday, September 11, 5:30pm – 6:30pmOPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 12, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Melton Gallery, University of Central Oklahoma100 N. University DrEdmond, OK 73034 Reshaping Conventions is a semester-long symposium on race, gender, and identity, that exhibits black representation through modern depictions and visual media installation. Imperfect Exchange is one of two featured exhibitions and lectures by artists Patrick Earl Hammie and Le’Andra LeSeur. Hammie and LeSeur breach canon and stereotypes to express their individuality and humanity, and shift social consciousness. Through this symposium viewers are invited to experience these artists’ …

Patrick Earl Hammie: Cultural Identity, Social Equity and the Black Body

March 18, 2019

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 …

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 …

Lecture: Evolution (And Flashback)

January 9, 2017

LECTURE February 8, 2017, 3 – 4pm SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS Department of Art & Art History University of Connecticut 800 Bolton Rd Storrs, CT 06269

Lecture at Ball State University

March 7, 2016

PUBLIC LECTURE Tuesday, March 15, 5:30 to 7 pm BALL STATE UNIVERSITY Arts and Journalism Building, room 225 2000 W. University Ave. Muncie, IN 47306 The School of Art at Ball State University is excited to present a public lecture, “New Narratives,” by artist Patrick Earl Hammie as part of the Visiting Artists, Designers, and Scholars 2015-2016 series. At once dramatic and sensitive, for individuals who appreciate oil painting and figurative art, Mr. Hammie’s presentation is a must-see event.

After Image

September 28, 2015

SOLO EXHIBITION October 16, 2015 – January 2, 2016 RECEPTION: Friday, October 16, 5pm – 9pm GREYMATTER GALLERY Marshall Building 207 E Buffalo St, Suite 222 Milwaukee, WI 53202 Thinking through the implications of various perceptions of black masculinity in art and media – from minstrel coon imagery and hip-hop as a global brand to the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice – After Image considers the pictorial, technical, and narrative conventions of Western art, inserting black and brown male bodies into that tradition to disturb existing conventions and provide a platform from which to dialogue about ideas of legacy, agency, and embedded …

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 …

Lecture at University of Iowa

February 10, 2014

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 …

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 …