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| Patrick Earl Hammie, Case, 2012, Oil on linen, 30 x 40 inches. © Patrick Earl Hammie. All rights reserved. |
From
Yeelen Gallery e-blast:
Patrick Earl Hammie born 1981 in New
Haven, Connecticut, is an artist best known for his monumental portraits
related primarily to themes of identity, history, and narrative. Considering
the potential paintings of the human figure have to reflect the values of the
period in which they are produced, Hammie’s work investigates the
expectations built into this canonical genre, probing and dismantling the
idealizing impulses that have historically shaped it. Drawing on the
emotive qualities of Romanticist painting and its use of heroic
proportions to engage with political and humanistic expression, he focuses
specifically on constructions of gender and race, putting pressure on these
categories as a means of expanding understandings of identity, and
reconfiguring inherited conceptions of ideal beauty and heroic nudity.
Patrick
Earl Hammie received his B.A. from Coker College and his M.F.A. in painting
from the University of Connecticut. Hammie is currently an assistant
professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he lives and
works.
Patrick
Earl Hammie has exhibited throughout the U.S. including Stewart Center
Gallery at Purdue University, Porter Butts Gallery at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and the Drawing Center in New York. In 2008, he
received an Alice C. Cole ’42 fellowship from Wellesley College, where
he was in residence for one year and completed his project Equivalent
Exchange. In 2011, he was an artist in residence at the John Michael
Kohler Arts Center with support from Alliance of Artists Communities with
the Joyce Foundation.
Yeelen Gallery is
a contemporary art space occupying a 10,000 square-foot converted industrial
space in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood. The Gallery mounts exhibitions of a
dynamic and ambitious nature by sustaining four exhibition spaces with a focus
on figuration, realism, and symbolism.
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