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  1. Artist in Residence

    Amy Patton - Oil

    August 28 - November 13, 2010
    Exhibtion Opening Reception: Friday, August 27, 6-9 p.m.
    Blaffer Art Museum



    Photo: dabfoto creative. Amy Patton Production still, 2010.

    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.

    LOCATION: Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd.
    ADMISSION: Free

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