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 …