Ebony G. Patterson

Artist Ebony G. Patterson explores, through her practice, gender norms and  Jamaican dancehall culture. She blend different materials and techniques, such as tapestry, beading, sequins, crochet, and Internet-sourced images of violent murders, to represent the transformations of gender and body politics. Patterson’s work thus elicits a civic awareness that raises the stakes for popular culture as a whole and interrogates at the same time the looking mechanism of viewers.