Known for her drawings, tapestries, videos, sculptures and installations that involve surfaces layered with flowers, glitter, lace and beads, Patterson’s works investigate forms of embellishment as they relate to youth culture within disenfranchised communities. Her neo-baroque works address violence, masculinity, “bling,” visibility and invisibility within the post-colonial context of her native Jamaica and within black youth culture globally. This exhibition focuses on the role that gardens have played in her practice, referenced as spaces of both beauty and burial; environments filled with fleeting aesthetics and mourning.
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Ebony G. Patterson’s solo exhibition …while the dew is on the roses… is on view at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami through May 5.
Annie Moye traverses the out-of-the-way places found in the photographs and quilt works of Amanda Greene in Her Fragrance Is Still Among Us at the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning, Duluth.