[Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye (Critical.Caribbean.Art) for bringing this item to our attention.] Here’s a put up from Excessive Museum of Artwork in Atlanta, Georgia, saying that Jamaican-born visible artist Ebony G. Patterson is the 2023 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the sector of African American artwork.
Artist Ebony G. Patterson is the 2023 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the sector of African American artwork. Awarded yearly by the Museum since 2005, the prize demonstrates the Excessive’s ongoing dedication to furthering creative innovation and selling analysis of African American artists and students.
Based mostly in Kingston, Jamaica, and Chicago, Patterson is understood for her multi-layered works in a wide range of media that distinction lovely, lush imagery, shade and texture with darker underlying themes addressing societal and political injustices. Her advanced compositions, which at first might seem celebratory, draw the viewer in to find deeper truths referring to race-based class, social division and political violence. These interrogations discover the legacies inherent in post-colonial areas typically memorializing and honoring the lives of those that have been deemed socially invisible/unvisible.
Her work has been featured in additional than 50 solo and group exhibitions over the previous 10 years and is included within the collections of distinguished establishments such because the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (LACMA), the Nationwide Gallery of Jamacia, Kingston, the Perez Artwork Museum, Miami, the Velocity Artwork Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York, amongst others. The Excessive acquired her work “. . . they stood in a time of unknowing . . . for many who bear/naked witness” (2018), which was introduced within the exhibition What Is Left Unstated, Love (March-August 2022). Solo exhibitions of her work are forthcoming on the New York Botanical Backyard and the Arnolfini Museum in Bristol, United Kingdom. She serves as co-artistic director of Prospect.6, slated to open in 2024. Patterson is the primary artist to carry this place.
“Ebony G. Patterson’s putting work asks the viewer to contemplate powerful questions on world social and racial inequality, whereas on the similar time commemorating the lives and struggles of marginalized folks all through the world,” stated Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Inexperienced, Jr., director of the Excessive. “We’re honored to acknowledge her vital follow and appreciable contributions to African American artwork with the 2023 Driskell Prize.”
Patterson holds a Bachelor of Fantastic Arts in portray from Edna Manley Faculty of Visible and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamacia, and a Grasp of Fantastic Arts in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox Faculty of Design & Visible Arts at Washington College in St. Louis, Missouri.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been introduced at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Hales Gallery, New York “ M, the Nasher Museum of Artwork at Duke College, North Carolina, Perez Artwork Museum, Miami, the Velocity Artwork Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Museum of Artwork and Design, New York, Baltimore Museum of Artwork, the Up to date Artwork Museum Saint Louis, the SCAD Museum of Artwork, Savannah, Georgia, and Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark. Her work is included within the much-acclaimed group exhibition Forecast Kind: Artwork in Caribbean Diaspora, 1990-In the present day (Museum of Up to date Artwork, Chicago), which is able to journey to the Institute of Up to date Artwork, Boston in 2023 and the Museum of Up to date Artwork San Diego in 2024. As well as, Patterson’s art work was featured within the Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, England, 2021) and the Athens Biennale (Athens, Greece, 2021).
Patterson has taught on the Edna Manley Faculty Faculty of Visible and Performing Arts and the College of Virginia and was an affiliate professor of portray and blended media on the College of Kentucky and the Invoice and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor on the Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago.
Along with the Driskell Prize, Patterson has obtained an Alturas Basis Grant (2020), the USA Artist Award (2018), a Tiffany Basis Grant (2017), a Joan Mitchell Basis Grant (2015) and an Andy Warhol Basis Grant, in collaboration with Small Axe (2014).
Study extra in regards to the David C. Driskell Prize and different earlier winners.
For extra info, see https://excessive.org/2023-driskell-prize-winner-ebony-g-patterson/
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