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A Journey of Self Discovery - Ebony G.Patterson
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Born in Kingston , Jamaica in 1981,Ebony G. Patterson graduated from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2004, where she received an Honors Diploma in Painting and from Sam Fox College of Art and Design at the Washington University in St. Louis in 2006 , with a Masters in Fine Arts in Printmaking and Drawing .
She has participated in several group exhibitions in Jamaica and abroad since 2001, this includes : Curator's Eye III : Ceromoney in Space,Time and Sound, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingstoon Jamaica 2008, NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Chicago , IL 2008, ‘New Blue Emerging :First Kentucky Art Biennial’ , Kentucky Art Museum, (Louisville, Kentucky) 2008, ‘Wall to Wall : Large Scale Drawing’, Lexington Art League ,( Lexington ,KY) 2008, ‘The Art of Collage’, Mutual Gallery ,(Kingston, Jamaica) 2008, ‘Infinite Island : Contemporary Caribbean Art’ ,Brooklyn Museum ( Brooklyn, NY) Woolworth Windows, Tacoma Contemporary (Tacoma ,WA) 2007, Intimate Matter, ( two person exhibit University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia) 2006, Redhead Experimental Exhibit: A History of Women’s Art, (New York ,NY ) 2006, ‘Young Generations 2005 and 2006’ (Mutual Gallery), ‘Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year 2005’ , ‘Saakhi: A Multi- Ethnic look at Women’s Health and Bodies’ 2005 (St. Louis, Missouri), ‘CIAC Summer Exhibit 2005’ (Pont Aven, France), ‘Curator’s Eye II : Identity : Personal and Social Narratives (Kingston, Jamaica), 2005 , ‘Jamaica Biennial 2004+ 2006’ (National Gallery), Royal Overseas League Travel Scholars 2002 Exhibition’ (Hosted in 2003London and 2004 Edinburgh at The ROSL).
Patterson has also staged four solo exhibits in Jamaica and the US the most recent being, ‘Hybrids’ ( 2007) at the Seeline Gallery in (Santa Monica , California).
She is the recipient of several awards and scholarships both abroad and in her home country this includes the Prime Ministers Youth Award for Arts and Culture (2006 ) ,the highest honor that a young person can receive in Jamaica for this field. Her works are apart several private and public collections.
Patterson is a Assistant Professor in Painting at the University of Kentucky, and currently lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica and Lexington, Kentucky.
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Future Exhibits / Projects
2009
Quotidian Exotic, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY www.transy.edu/morlan
2008
Looky See
Otis College of Art
Summer Exhibition
July 26- September 13
http://www.otis.edu/index.php?id=645
Boys of Summer
Monique Melache Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
http://www.moniquemeloche.com
June 20- August 2
Vermont Studio Center , Johnson ,VT (Residency)
www.vermontstudiocenter.org
Curator’s Eye III: Ceremony in Space, Time and Sound, National Gallery of Jamaica , Kingston, Jamaica.
Wall to Wall: Largescale Drawing, Louden House, Lexington, Kentucky
Taboo Identities: Race,Sexuality + the Body- a Jamaican context- Olympia Art Center Kingston, Jamaica. The show will then travel to Lexington, Kentucky in October 2008 to be staged at the Tuska Centre of Contemporary Art. (First Curatorial Project) www.taboo876.zoomshare.com
Artist's Statement
Beauty, Gender, body and the grotesque are continued dialogues within my work. I am enthralled by the repulsive, the bizarre and the objectness of bodies and the contradictions that both have to art historically and culturally. The Jamaican vernacular, gendered cultural symbolisms and stereotypes serve as a platform for these discussions. I am enthused by words, conditions and experiences that objectify and abjectify.
Menstrual documents, cuts, bruises, language, feminine excrement, peeled skins, bleached skins, decadence, nippled and vulvic forms, the feminine, disease, feminine motifs, and accents are reoccurring images within my work. Referencing beauty through the use of the grotesque but visceral, confrontational and deconstructed.
Thanks for visiting!
I may be contacted at : bonnibop@yahoo.com Besure to check out my webpage and other artists with my representitive gallery Seeline Gallery , Santa Monica, CA
www.seelinegallery.com/patterson
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