Tagged: Ebony Patterson

METTLE: UK ART FACULTY EXHIBITION


September 16 – December 23, 2012
Admission: FREE

Curated by Lisa Dent, this exhibition of the University of Kentucky Fine Arts faculty artists includes Ruth Adams, Sarah Ammerman Van Meter, Garry Bibbs, Roger Boulay, Jeremy Colbert, Rob Dickes, Beth Ettensohn, Gerald Ferstman, Valerie Fuchs, Rae Goodwin, Sharon Lee Hart, Marty Henton, Marty, Hui Chi Lee, Doreen Maloney, Matt Page, Ebony Patterson, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Bobby Scroggins, Robert Shay, Brandon Smith, Hunter Stamps, Dima Strakovsky, Lynn Sweet, George Szekely, Sarah Wylie A. VanMeter, and James Wade.

Image Credit: ARTURO ALONZO SANDOVAL, Circling Back Series # 12, iInterlaced and machine stitching, repurposed UK HealthCare construction wall digital vinyl images, multi-color threads, museum mattes, museum acrylic, and painted wood frames

More info: http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/

UK Art Faculty Praised by New York Times

Photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Ebony G Patterson, faculty in University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies, has made UK proud.  In today’s New York Times, respected art critic Holland Cotter praised our friend and colleague.  In part, here is what Cotter wrote:

“And there’s a knockout collage portrait, finished last year, by Ebony G. Patterson, who divides her time between Jamaica and Lexington, Ky., of a young black man with a masklike white face. The image refers to the often-against-the-law world of Jamaican dance-hall culture, and specifically to its fashion for skin-bleaching as a cosmetic means of both attracting attention and — playing around with the idea, dating back to slavery and forward to Michael Jackson — determining social status based on skin color.”

This is a well deserved honor for Ebony and a great day for UK.  Read the entire article.