Ebony Patterson

Ebony Patterson
Patterson in 2010
Born
Ebony Grace Patteron

1981 (age 42–43)
Kingston, Jamaica
Education
Websitehttp://ebonygpatterson.com/

Ebony Grace Patterson[1] (born 1981, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born visual artist and educator. She is known for her large and colorful tapestries created out of various materials such as, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments. Her "Gangstas for Life series" of dancehall portraits, and her garden-inspired installations.

She has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts, and has been an Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky since 2007.[2][3] Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Jamaica, the United States, and abroad.

In 2024, Patterson will co-curate the 6th edition of arts triennial Prospect New Orleans, and the first artist to do so.[4][5]

On October 1, 2024, Patterson was named a MacArthur Fellow.[6]

Early life and education

Patterson was born in 1981, Kingston, Jamaica.[7][8] She studied painting at Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica and graduated in 2004.[9][10] Patterson received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.[9]

Work

Untitled I (2007), from the Hybrid Series, mixed media drawing on paper.
Untitled II (2007), from the Gangstas for Life Series, mixed media on hand-cut paper.

Patterson's early work often revolves around questions of identity and the body, and takes the form of mixed media paintings, drawings and collages, most of them on paper. Photography, found objects, installation and performance have recently become increasingly important in her practice. Early work was primarily concerned with the female body as object. Her Venus Investigations objectified the female torso, headless and anonymous, and explored the relationship between the ample-bodied "Venus" or female goddess images of prehistoric times and contemporary female self-images and beauty ideals. Subsequent works more provocatively focused on the vagina as an object and, by implication, examined the taboos that surround this body part and its functions within Jamaican culture. This also led to 3-dimensional constructions made from intimate female articles such as sanitary napkins and tampons and more abstracted and surreal hybrid organic forms that appeared in her large paper collages of 2007. This early body of work has a sober and at times even majestic visual beauty which as she puts it, references "beauty through the use of the grotesque but visceral, confrontational and deconstructed."[11] Patterson's artwork often addresses social and political issues related to feminism, violence, gender identity, and sexuality. Her work has been exhibited at art galleries around the world and has been critically acclaimed for its powerful messages.

Patterson's 2016 solo show at the Museum of Arts and Design, Dead Treez, incorporated several appliquéd commercially-woven Jacquard weavings in which Patterson used restaged images of photographs that had been taken of murder victims in Jamaica and then circulated on social media.[12] The exhibition also included a collection of mannequins in vibrant Jamaican dance hall wear (titled Swag Swag Krew), and a series of vitrines with artificial flora and jewelry belonging to the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design and in which patterned bodies reclined (titled ...buried again to carry on growing...), again referencing the victims of violent crime.[13]

Her solo exhibition Ebony G. Patterson...while the dew is still on the roses...organized by and presented at the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2018 gathered a number of artworks including drawings, tapestries, and sculptures that feature glitter, appliqués, pins, embellishments, fabric, tassels, brooches, pearls, and beads. On the occasion, a monograph was publish to celebrate the artist's production.[14]

In 2018, Patterson was invited to participate in the first edition of Open Spaces, a series of installations, performances, and talks in Kansas City, Missouri.[15] Her installation ...called up focused on one of two public pools in Swope Park. She ran a Kickstarter campaign to "reclaim and revitalize"[16] the site dedicated to Dr. Harry M. Gilkey, who used the pool in 1956 to teach hydrotherapy to youth with physical handicaps.[17] Patterson describes the site in the Kickstarter campaign,[16] noting:

I want to better honor this history by taking down the fence, cleaning the space, and creating a work here. I also want to ask what it means to memorialize not just a site that was already memorialized, but also to embellish a site that is already embellished. What does it mean to give presence and meaning to a space that has been essentially unheard of? How do we reclaim what is meant for the collective? These are questions I want to pose not only for the exhibition but also for the community who once used it and will now use it again, and learn from what they have to say.

Patterson further elaborated after the work was complete, noting, "I am very interested in how regular people claim space and that's what street side memorials do. So when a tragedy happens, they mark the space by adding things that we would associate with a memorial in the same way that we're seeing here so there are flowers, there are toys, there are candles."[18] The work was received positively by those who frequently visit Swope Park.[19][18]

Patterson has held the first immersive artistic residency[20] at the New York Botanical Garden, resulting in the 2023 exhibition "…things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting…".[21]

Gangstas for Life series (2008 – ongoing)

One of Patterson's most recognized body of work is a series entitled "Gangstas for Life," which explores conceptions of masculinity within Dancehall culture.[10] In this series, the artist specifically explores skin bleaching as a means of marking and transformation, not as an act of racial self-loathing.[22] Additionally the series "seeks to examine the dichotomy between Jamaican stereotypical ideologies of homosexual practices and its parallels within dancehall culture."[23] Red floral and fish motifs throughout the series serve to represent homosexuality within a predominantly homophobic culture.[22] Patterson's images imaginatively recreate portraits of young black males who bleach their skin, pluck their eyebrows and wear 'bling' jewelry to enhance their gangsta status. Patterson finds beauty in their psychic violence glamorizing them with glittered halos and luscious lipstick.[24] The artist explores perceptions of beauty as grotesque within the series, and her portrayal of the subjects' cracked, bleeding and oozing skin.

Public art collections

Patterson's work is held in a number of public art institutions, this is a select list including:

References

  1. ^ "Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art". Brooklyn Museum. 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  2. ^ "UK Artist/Professor Ebony G. Patterson Wins Coveted United States Artists Fellowship". UKNow. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  3. ^ Blackford, Linda (2018). "You May Not Know This UK Professor, But The International Art World Does". Kentucky.com.
  4. ^ "Artist Ebony G. Patterson will co-curate next edition of New Orleans's Prospect triennial". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 31 August 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  5. ^ Greenberger, Alex (31 August 2022). "Ebony G. Patterson Becomes the First Artist to Organize Prospect New Orleans Triennial". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  6. ^ "MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Ebony G. Patterson". Baltimore Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . ". pamm.org. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Boston University Art Galleries presents Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez". College of Fine Arts, Boston University. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  10. ^ a b Laughlin, Nicholas (1 September 2012). "Ebony G. Patterson: All the right moves". Caribbean Beat Magazine, Issue 117. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  11. ^ Poupeye, Veerle. "Ebony G. Patterson". National Gallery of Jamaica.
  12. ^ "Ebony G. Patterson Reveals Deep Truths – artnet News". artnet News. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  13. ^ "LIFE AND DEATH IN A POISONOUS GARDEN EBONY G. PATTERSON Dead Treez". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  14. ^ "Ebony G. Patterson: ...while the dew is still on the roses... • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  15. ^ "The Exhibition". Open Spaces. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Called Up: A New Artwork for Kansas City". Kickstarter. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  17. ^ "Mixed Uses: Open Spaces Kansas City". Art in America. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  18. ^ a b Denesha, Julie. "For Open Spaces, An Artist Turns A Forgotten Pool into A 'Vision of Color And Thought'". kcur.org. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  19. ^ "Take a drone flight over an "Open Spaces" art installation at Swope Park". kansascity. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  20. ^ "Ebony G. Patterson in Conversation with Thelma Golden » New York Botanical Garden". New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  21. ^ Heinrich, Will (15 June 2023). "Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  22. ^ a b Paravisini, Lisa (20 August 2010). "Bleaching gangstas'? Ebony Patterson interrogates dancehall's expressions of masculinity". Repeating Islands. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  23. ^ Ladosha, Neon (April 2011). "bookmarks: Art: Ebony G. Patterson". bookmarks. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  24. ^ Petrine Archer- Straw, Petrinearcher.com
  25. ^ "Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Acquisition of Artwork by Ebony G. Patterson at Sixth Annual Art + Soul Celebration". Pérez Art Museum (PAMM). 11 February 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  26. ^ "Reveal/Conceal: Exploring Identity in Contemporary Art". The Arkansas Arts Center. 2018. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  27. ^ "Collection: among the weeds, plants, and peacock feathers". Birmingham Museum of Art. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  28. ^ "Tarble Arts Center – Collections and Archives". Eastern Illinois University. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  29. ^ "Ebony G. Patterson". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  30. ^ "REVEAL · Works from the Collection". NMOCA. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

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