Patrick Earl Hammie

Patrick Earl Hammie is an American painter best known for his monumental portraits that adopt body language and narrative to reinvent and remix ideal beauty and heroic nudity. Hammie characterizes his work as “an effort to reconcile inner duality, transcend typical... [more]

Patrick Earl Hammie is an American painter best known for his monumental portraits that adopt body language and narrative to reinvent and remix ideal beauty and heroic nudity. Hammie characterizes his work as “an effort to reconcile inner duality, transcend typical masculine ideals and yield to new realities that require constant compromise and change." Transformation is a central theme in Hammie's paintings. Exploring the tension between power and vulnerability, he examines how male artists have historically represented themselves and the nude. Coming of age in a generation that is post-Civil Rights and post-Second Wave Feminism, he has situate himself in the discourse of contemporary art that questions constructions of self and social identity, gender politics and race.

Since 2007 Hammie has been featured in several solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. In 2008 he was awarded the Alice C. Cole Fellowship in Studio Arts from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, which supported a year’s research and culminated in his exhibition Equivalent Exchange. In 2010 he had a solo exhibition at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, was featured in Studio Visit magazine and received the Tanne Foundation Award for excellence in the visual arts. Hammie maintains an active schedule of exhibitions, public lectures and speaking engagements at institutions nationwide. He currently serves as assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

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