Patrick Dean Hubbell @ Expo Chicago

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EXPO CHICAGO 2023 APRIL 13 – 16

Gerald Peters Contemporary is pleased to announce its participation in Expo Chicago 2023 with a solo presentation of paintings by artist Patrick Dean Hubbell.

A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, the presentation will expand on a series Hubbell began while pursuing his MFA in 2021. Now known as his Tack Room series, the associated paintings and drawings are a montage of visual influences, spanning the genre of American West history painting with particular focus on Native American portraiture.

In the series, the artist interrogates biases about Native peoples and histories of the American West, puncturing romanticizing imagery by deconstructing it. Tack Room centers around Hubbell’s blind contour paintings, an extensive series the artist produces by consulting a well-known work of art depicting figures of the American West and then blindly outlining a rough copy of the scene on the canvas.

The resulting works reveal the clichéd cowboy hats and warbonnets of nineteenthcentury paintings produced by the likes of George Catlin, Frederic Remington, and Charles M. Russell, albeit reduced to faint yet eminently recognizable core imagery that indicates just how deeply such stereotypes have been internalized by Native and nonNative audiences alike.

The newest works of the series, produced specifically for Expo Chicago, are scaled to 5- and 7-foot-tall canvases. The dimensions recall the works of prominent Native artists like Fritz Scholder and T.C. Canon who similarly drew from clichéd source material in the production of paintings aimed at de-mythologizing portrayals of the American West and the region’s modern Indigenous inhabitants.

Accompanying the Tack Room portraits will be a selection of Hubbell’s well-known gestural abstractions. These early canvases combine gathered natural earth pigments from the Navajo Nation with synthetic oil and acrylic paint. The color intensity produced by this combination of materials supports references to the Southwestern landscape, its unique vegetation, and floral color entities.

Together, the two series reflect a synthesis of Hubbell’s experience growing up on his family’s Navajo Nation farmland, deep connections to his Diné heritage, and the struggles he has faced as a Native artist in the contemporary art world.

Waiting For Western Art To Listen, 2022 oil, oil stick on canvas 40 x 30 inches $8,000

Not Your Reference: American Western Art, 2023

oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$15,000

Disrupting The Gaze of American Western Art, 2023 oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas 84 x 72 inches $25,000

The Sun Will Set On the Art of The American West One Day, 2023

oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

84 x 72 inches

$25,000

American Western Art: It’s Your Time To Be Let Out To Pasture, 2023 oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

84 x 72 inches

$15,000

Microcosmic Meditation, 2016 oil, natural earth pigment on canvas 84 x 72 inches $18,500

Hear Us: American Western Art, 2023

oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$15,000

Blind Contour Headdress in Blue, 2022 oil, oil stick on canvas 40 x 30 inches $8,000

The Essence of Your Natural Process, 2016 oil, natural earth pigment on canvas

84 x 72 inches

SOLD

Do I Really Have To Sit For This Portrait?, 2022 oil, oil stick on canvas

48 x 36 inches

$10,000

One Day Your Western Art Collection Will See Us, 2023 oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

84 x 72 inches

$25,000

$30,000

Look Past Your Western Art Collection…See Us. (More Than Just A Remington), 2022 oil, acrylic, oil stick, charcoal, polymer, nails on canvas
x 96 inches
84

Waiting For A New Day in American Western Art, 2023

oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$15,000

The Wind Keeps Me In Balance, 2017 oil, natural earth pigment on canvas

84 x 72 inches

$18,500

Waiting

$25,000

For The Sun to Set on the American West, 2023 oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas 84 x 72 inches

Not Your Subject: American Western Art, 2023 oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$15,000

We Are More Than Just A Relic for Western Art, We Are Here, 2023 oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas

84 x 72 inches

$25,000

Waiting To Be Let Free From The Gaze, 2022 oil, oil stick on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$15,000

further information,
Evan Feldman, Director
954-5738
For
please contact
efeldman@gpgallery.com (505)

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