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Case Studies [20 Images]
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Census Investigations [6 Images]
This body of work was created for my undergrate exhibit 'STAGES' ,at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts ( the only Art School in the english speaking Caribbean)
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Curators Eye II [14 Images]
These photos are from a recent exhibit that I participated in ,at the National Gallery of Jamaica, located in Kingston . The exhibit was curated by British Curator, Art Historian and Critic,Dr. Eddie Chambers. The show opened December 10th ,2005 and will run until March 18th, 2006.
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Dear Kiesha Series [5 Images]
An exploration of identity through Metaphorical letters.....
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Dialysis - Exhibition [6 Images]
These are installation shots of my first solo exhibit . This was held at the University of Montana- Missoula, at the UC gallery in September 2005 . The show was up for a month .
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GANGSTAS FOR LIFE [23 Images]
‘Gangstas for Life’ explores the fashionable practice of skin bleaching within Dancehall culture. The images raises questions about perceptions of masculinity within Jamaican dancehall culture. The images are deconstructed into stereotypical homosexual beauties, with bleached faces, red glossed lips, glitter and feminine motifs. These images challenge practices of the emasculation of young black males and question stereotypical standards of beauty amongst genders .The dancehall has become a place of major cultural significance amongst young working class Jamaicans. It is the community waterhole where one learns about the latest slangs, songs, dances, fashion and social gender practices. The Dancehall is the belly of Jamaican society that reaffirms, reflects and assigns labels as it relates to social norms or behaviors deemed deviant with Jamaican society, such as homosexual stereotypes
This body of work explores contemporary notions of beauty within a Jamaican context. Exploring the grotesque as the sought after beauty. It seeks to examine the dichotomy between Jamaican stereotypical ideologies of homosexual practices and its parallels within dancehall culture, where skin bleaching (whitening) has become trendy and fashionable primarily among young black males. This work raises questions about body politics and gender, gender and beauty, beauty and stereotyping, race and beauty, beauty and the grotesque.
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Hybrid [19 Images]
This album features work from a 2007 solo exhibit at the Seeline Gallery in Santa Monica,CA. The show features new mix media drawing and sculptures .
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Infinite Island- Contemporary Caribbean Art [5 Images]
This is the largest Contemporary Caribben Art exhibit in the US.The exhibit is staged at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. I was unable to take images of other works inthe exhibit besides my own, I know it sucks! Anyway the exhibit opened August 30th 2007 -January 28th 2008
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Intimate Matter- Works by Corey Drieth and Ebony G. Patterson [16 Images]
This was a two person show with myself and Corey Dreith at the University of Virginia' Off- Grounds Gallery. We are both Visiting artists at UVA for the academic year 2006-07.
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Meat Investigations [9 Images]
This series explores ideas of the vagina as object, through the use of the meat as metaphor ,while looking at Jamaican curse words and their metaphorical references to the female body.
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Skins [4 Images]
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Untitled -Identity [4 Images]
early explorations on notions of identity.
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Venus Investigations [6 Images]
This body of work is an exploration of varied kinds of Venus' and how this images have affected my own notions about the female body . This is an exploration of my own self imaging and how these images make references to art historical references to women's bodies.
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Venus,Cuts and Aprons [23 Images]
This is my second solo show but my first in Jamaica. This show entails all my interests in the function of the female body as object, in the past year and a half.I have used the vagina as a vehichle for this discussion,while looking at women's relationships with their own bodies as this external other.
This show hangs at the Mutual Gallery in Kingston, Jamiaca. It opened on July 11th ,2006 and was slated end on August 4th 2006 , but has been extendend until the August 11th 2006. This show is a contingent of the Super Plus Under Forty Artist of the Year 2005 Award ,I had recieved the year before.
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