Evan Feldman
Director
efeldman@gpgallery.com
Opening reception with the artist: Friday, August 11 from 5-8 PM
Gerald Peters Contemporary is pleased to present Patrick Dean Hubbell: You Embrace Us. The exhibition of new works examines the commodification and cultural appropriation of Indigenous objects and design.
First developed in 2014, the series Untitled Appropriation utilizes curio blankets to bring attention to continued colonialism. Commonly found in travel souvenir shops in reservation border towns, Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné) paints over these mass manufactured blankets to near obscurity. This intentional defacement of the blanket disrupts the image and its contexts.
Throughout the history of colonial conquest, acquiring and commodifying cultural objects for profit has persisted. The present-day shift to mass manufacturing has created a genre of poorly made synthetic imitations that undermine Indigenous People. Through re-appropriation and reclamation, my work intentionally transfigures these colonial reproductions and furthers the conversation of Indigenous inclusion.
Hubbell continues the series, incorporating reproduction baskets and dreamcatchers. Through cutting, stitching, and painting over, Hubbell dismantles these objects and their colonial underpinnings.
A member of the Diné nation, Hubbell’s work has always sought address the ongoing struggle for social visibility and recognition of Indigenous Peoples. His work has been exhibited nationwide and can be found in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL. In 2017 he was awarded a prestigious Pollock-Krasner grant.
Patrick Dean Hubbell
Within The Darkness, The Stars In The Night Sky Came To Reclaim Their Stories and Their Songs 2023
Oil, Acrylic, Enamel, Synthetic Mass Manufactured Textile, Wood Stretcher Bar
84 x 48 inches
Patrick Dean Hubbell
Despite It All, We Used What We Had To Make It To A New Day, You Embraced Us 2023
Oil, Acrylic, Enamel, Synthetic Polymer, Spray Paint, OIl Stick, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Paper, Cardboard, Acrylic Dispersion, Sewing on Canvas, Synthetic Mass Manufactured Textile on Canvas
76 x 48 inches
Patrick Dean Hubbell
Jóhonaa’éí: The Sun Will Always Wrap Us In Warmth 2023
Oil, Acrylic, Enamel, Oil Stick, Charcoal, Paper, Spray Paint on Synthetic Mass Manufactured Textile
70 x 54 inches
Patrick Dean Hubbell
We Looked To The Stars In The Night Sky: You Taught Us To Persevere By Using Everything 2023
Oil, Acrylic, Enamel, Natural Earth Pigment, Bailing Twine, Synthetic Polymer, Spray Paint, OIl Stick, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Paper, Cardboard, Acrylic Dispersion, Sewing on Canvas, Synthetic Mass Manufactured Textile on Canvas
76 x 48 inches
Patrick Dean Hubbell
They Took What They Wanted: We Kept The Sacred: Synthetic Void (Primary) 2023
Oil, Acrylic, Enamel, Synthetic Polymer, Silicone, Synthetic Mass Manufactured Baskets on Panel
72 x 48 inches
Patrick Dean Hubbell
The People Will Always Be Of This Earth; And Connected To The Stars 2022
oil, acrylic, enamel, charcoal, paper, polymer, canvas, mass manufactured synthetic textile
66 x 54 inches
