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Patrick Dean Hubbell

b. 1986, United States

You Brought The New Day To Me, 2019
Oil, acrylic, oil stick, enamel, and sewn thread on canvas

 

Patrick Dean Hubbell’s painting titled You Brought The New Day to Me from 2019 is specifically placed in conversation with Noland’s Four Corners in this gallery. Hubbell is of Navajo origin and lives and works in the four corners region. While much of his work references woven textiles, most are produced using paint on canvas. This work is comprised of two canvases, one with a chevron pattern painted in black on a white ground, the other with dripping horizontal black lines. Both have tasseled lower edges and are presented hung over separate bars, treatments that give them the look of folded blankets. Hubbell’s chevrons and stripes acknowledge their dialogue with the Post-Painterly Abstraction of the New York school, and to Noland’s specific use of these forms. His engagement, however, looks to return these shapes to their Native American origins and their symbolic references to the sky – the chevron as representing lightning, the lines as the horizon, and the colors black and white as light and darkness, day and night.

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All Artworks, North America
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To Weave the Sky