Nov 26 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2688 -
/

Sale 2688 - Lot 149

Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
EBONY G. PATTERSON (1981 - )
...for those who come to bear witness...

Hand-sewn and bound artist book with 16 fabric panels with direct archival dye, dye sublimation printing, pleating and appliqué, with removable ribbon closure, 2017-19. Each panel 300x455 mm; 12x17⅞ inches. Edition of 12. Signed and dated in ink on the last panel, verso.

Provenance
Private collection, New York.
Request Condition Report Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Ebony G. Patterson is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans the mediums of installation, sculpture, video, performance and textiles. Her 2018 solo show, ...for those who bear/bare witness... at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, uses her well-known densely layered and opulent hand-embellished jacquard tapestries as a call to action, entreating the viewer to acknowledge the violence and social injustices imposed upon the invisible and voiceless. According to the gallery's press release, "The titular wordplay - …for those who bear/bare witness… - implicates not only the viewer, who must acknowledge the content of Patterson's presentation, but also the anonymous victims memorialized by the works, whose bodies are disappeared, or laid bare."

Patterson has held solo exhibitions and projects at many US institutions including Baltimore Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, and the New York Botanical Gardens. Her work is included in a number of public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Brooklyn Museum, and she is a recipient of the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship.

Also in This Catalogue