Artist Talk | Ebony G. Patterson in conversation with Thelma Golden | New York Botanical Garden

Hales is thrilled to announce that Ebony G. Patterson will be in conversation with Thelma Golden at the New York Botanical Garden on Thursday, 25 May, 5:30 - 6:30pm.

 

The event will celebrate the opening of the exhibition, on view beginning 27 May, through a dynamic conversation between Ebony G. Patterson and Thelma Golden, the world's premier curator of art of the African Diaspora and Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

 

This summer New York Botanical Garden presents a major site-specific exhibition by contemporary artist Ebony G. Patterson. The first artist to embed within the institution for an immersive residency, Patterson is working directly with NYBG's gardens and collections to create spaces that evoke the natural world while simultaneously using beauty as an invitation to confront larger societal questions about race, gender, class, and violence. Her exhibition will provoke questions about what is traditionally considered beautiful and what is often cast aside as unwelcoming or threatening, seducing viewers into acknowledging darker truths lurking ominously beneath lushly planted surfaces.

 

 

Ebony G. Patterson in conversation with Thelma Gordon

The New York Botanical Garden