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Upcoming exhibition: Jason Patterson: A Survey of Work on Black History with Historic Accounts of White Supremacy February 9 - April 5 Reception and Artist Talk: Friday, February 9, 4-6 pm Jason Patterson’s (American, b. 1984) research-based practice focuses on Black history and the role of the past in cultivating present political and social conditions in American society. Interpreting archival images, artifacts, and multitudinous narratives through virtuosic figuration, Patterson unearths, underlines and reinvents primary historical sources, making them somber yet direct retellings that uncover the vestiges of this country’s segregated past. Patterson's work finds power in poetic anachronisms: a youthful portrait of Fred Hampton, at the cusp of his career as an activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party, elaborates on the understanding of the radical revolutionary with the fresh-faced student. The triptych of news stories of Rodney King's assault by police officers in 1992 sound familiar to the contemporary reader. Enlarged to hold space, Patterson's works serve as portals that connect the past and the present, evoking feelings of pride and progress in the power of Emancipation and Civil Rights figures, juxtaposed against the painful realities of racism and white supremacy, Contact information:
Mehves Lelic, Gallery Director and Assistant Professor University of Maryland Dept. of Fine Arts Arts and Technology Center 11931 Art Shell Plaza Princess Anne, MD 21853 gallery@umes.edu |