When viewers engage with Ebony G. Patterson’s work, they cannot help but be confronted with a unique artistic experience. The figures in her work are rendered in a way that makes them visceral yet truly unforgettable as they move across time and space. Filled with colour and allegory, the Jamaican artist creates work that is a visual veneration of the “Black body”. Patterson’s works seek to interrogate issues of violence, masculinity, “bling”, visibility and invisibility within the post-colonial Caribbean context. Known for creating drawings, tapestries, videos, sculptures, and installations that are layered with flowers, glitter, lace, and intricate beading, Patterson presents a dialogue with the creative splendour as she platforms spaces of beauty, burial, and mourning.

Untitled (Among the weeds, backpack, shoes and stones), 2015
Prints
Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Produced by the Athens Biennale

Untitled (Among the weeds, plants, and peacock feathers), 2015
Prints
Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Produced by the Athens Biennale

Untitled (Lily, carnation and rose budz), 2015
Prints
Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Produced by the Athens Biennale