Painting The Figure Now

June 11, 2018

BY WALT MORTON AND DIDI MENDENDEZ July 7 – September 18, 2018 RECEPTION: Friday, July 13, 5pm – 7pm Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art 309 McClellan St Wausau, WI 54403 Painting the Figure Now seeks to show quality paintings that investigate the many ways we see the human figure now. Contemporary approaches to portraiture, narrative, and any and all visualizations focusing on the human form in life, action, play, work, and repose. The museum is seeking artists who understand the finest traditions of figurative art. “We believe the human form is an endlessly interesting subject with inexhaustible potential,” says the museum. …

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.

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

SUPER Natural

April 10, 2017

BY KARIM HAMID April 28, 2017 – May 26, 2017 OPENING PREVIEW: Friday, April 28, 7 – 10pm AUREUS CONTEMPORARY 116 E. 7th Street New York, NY 10009 For centuries figurative representations in art remained linear and academic. At the start of the 20th century fresh threads and experimental approaches evolved the making and thinking around the imaging of human form. Today, there are myriad methods and aesthetics associated with the concept of figurative art, reflecting the increasing diversity of artists working throughout our world. Some strategies are easy to recognize and stem from formal representation like photorealism, while others disassemble formal conventions, …

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 …

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

International Painting Annual 6

October 3, 2016

BY JASON FRANZ My Study After Freud’s Portrait of Francis Bacon is included in the International Painting Annual 6. I’m honored to be included amongst an amazing and diverse group of international artists, with essays by John Giglio, Drake Gomez, and Penelope Przekop. The INPA is an annual publication by Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center that supports the documentation and recognition of excellent and relevant painted works from around the world. As a carefully designed book, the INPA enables Manifest to assemble a diverse array of works from around the world to support our inquiry into the creative efforts of artists working today, and serve to …

Interview with The Vanderbild

June 14, 2016

BY DIMITRIS MANOLAS A Q & A with The Vanderbild. View original post.

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.

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