FACULTY


Patrick Earl Hammie
Assistant Professor
Painting and Foundations

phammie@illinois.edu | website | CV

Patrick Earl Hammie is Assistant Professor of Painting and Foundations at the University of Illinois. His ongoing project centers on transformation and explores the tension between power and vulnerability as he re-imagines the modern male. Examining how male artists have historically represented themselves and the male nude, he adopts body language and narrative to reinvent and remix ideal beauty and heroic nudity. His paintings visualize the effort to reconcile inner duality, transcend typical masculine ideals and yield to new realities that require constant compromise and change. In support of his research, he recently received the 2008 Alice C. Cole Class of 1942 Fellowship in Studio Art from Wellesley College in Wellesley Massachusetts.

Selected Work

  • Patrick Earl Hammie: Equivalent Exchange, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

  • HEADshots, curated by Jen Pepper, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY

  • NAACP We Are One Hundred: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, juried by Barkley L. Hendricks, Artspace, Norwich, CT,

  • Coast to Coast, Ruchika's Art Gallery, Panjim, Goa, India

  • Pentameter, curated by Barry Rosenberg, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY