…until you
see them
November 14, 2013 – January 4, 2014
Opening reception: Thursday, November 14, 2013, 6-8pm
2154 West
Division Street
Chicago,
IL
For her
second solo exhibition at moniquemeloche, Ebony G. Patterson presents ...until
you see them, a series of new, large-scale, mixed-media works on paper.
Patterson's signature, monumental mug-shot portraits have grown into complex
groupings of full figures as she expands her exploration into the varied
interpretation and appropriation of feminine archetypes by young men of the
African diaspora. In this expansion, Patterson introduces the female figure to
address modes of visibility and invisibility within a certain cultural code.
Notions of the feminine, fashion, pattern, decoration and pastiche grow in ...until
you seem them, as Patterson explores a new forest of figuration.
Following
her opening at moniquemeloche, Patterson will participate in a week long
workshop at Theaster Gates' new Arts Incubator in Washington Park, Nov. 15-21,
with Patterson in dialogue with Krista A. Thompson, Associate Professor, Dept.
of Art History, Northwestern University and Allison Glenn, Arts Incubator +
Public Life Program Manager and Exhibitions Curator, on Thursday, November 21st
from 6-7:30 PM. For further information visit Arts Incubator here.
Ebony G.
Patterson (Jamaican, born Kingston, 1981, works Lexington, KY) is the recipient
of many prestigious fellowships, awards and grants, including Musgrave Medal
from the Institute of Jamaica (2012), The Andy Warhol Foundation Grant (2012),
and Rex Nettleford Fellowship in Cultural Studies (2011). Recent
exhibitions include Six Degrees of Separate Nations, Frost Art
Museum, Miami, eMERGING: Visual Art and Music in a Post-Hip-Hop Era, The
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn, Aruba
Biennial: Happy Islands, Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica,
Kingston, and Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, The Studio Museum
in Harlem, co-organized with El Museo del Barrio and the Queens Museum of Art,
New York.
In 2014, Caribbean:
Crossroads of the World, will travel to the Perez Art Museum Miami and
Patterson's work will be included in Disguise: Hidden Dimensions in
African past, present and future art at the Seattle Art Museum and European
Masters and Creativity in Caribbean Fine Arts at the Frost Art
Museum, Miami. Patterson was recently lauded as "30 Black
Artists Under 40" by The Huffington Post and "25 Artists to
Watch and Collect" by ArtVoicesMagazine.com and graced the cover
of the International Review of
African American Art, Vol. 24, No. 3. Patterson is Assistant
Professor in Painting at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
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