What would it mean to make the people “who would come just for the peonies just a little annoyed?' Here, artist Ebony G. Patterson discusses the socio-political themes that live in her latest work.
Ebony G. Patterson in front of "...fester..." at the New York Botanical Garden. Courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden.I learned that fact thanks to the artist Ebony G .Patterson, who has just placed 400 larger-than-life sculptures of glittery black vultures in the New York Botanical Garden as part of her expansive new showThe exhibition, on view through September 17, is split between two locales amidst the botanical garden’s 250 verdant acres.
Just weeks ago, Patterson, 42, won the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of “field-defining contributions to African American art,” one of manythat have come steadily since she earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004, following a degree in painting in Kingston, Jamaica, where she was born and raised. Her next major solo effort, which focuses on the female form, will open next June in the U.K. at Arnolfini, Bristol’s International Centre for Contemporary Arts.
In the library is a video, just acquired by the Brooklyn museum, and a colossal new multimedia sculpture “…fester…” comprising decorous materials that have long been her trademark, as well as glassIt recalls the snarled roots of an ancient tree that has been downed by storm, exposing the secrets beneath.
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