Exhibtion Opening Reception: Friday, August 27, 6-9 p.m.
Amy Patton's recent experiments in performance and theater employ complex strategies of sound, text, and voiceover to explore the various ways images and meaning are constructed. Commissioned through a residency at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and shot entirely in a black box theater at UH, the artist's most recent film Oil (2010) centers on a young woman preparing for her role in a theater production inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!. This exhibtion was organized by Associate Curator and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fellow Rachel Hooper, Patton's exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum also debuts a new series of photographs and earlier films with Texan origins. Amy Patton was born in Texas and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
