Artist in Residence

Amy Patton - Oil

August 28 - November 13, 2010
Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, August 27, 6-9 PM
Blaffer Art Museum


Photo credit: 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 Mitchell Center and shot entirely in a black box theater, 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!. Patton’s exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum also debuts a new series of photographs and earlier films with Texan origins. This exhibition was organized by Associate Curator and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Curatorial Fellow Rachel Hooper.

LOCATION: Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston
ADMISSION: Free