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Patrick Dean Hubbell: Everything About You

April 21st - May 28th, 2022
  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Everything About You, Installation View. Photography by Greg Carideo

Nina Johnson is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by Patrick Dean Hubbell in Miami, Everything About You.

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, A Prayerful Gesture To You, 2021, Oil, acrylic, charcoal, enamel, sewn thread on canvas, mounted on canvas, 48 x 24 in.

Patrick Dean Hubbell presents new paintings that investigate the connection of the intuitive mark-making process, and the translation of self through methods of painting.

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, You Provide Us The Colors of A New Day, 2022, Oil, acrylic, acrylic dispersion, enamel on canvas, wood stretcher bar, 80 x 60 in.
  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Everything About You, Installation View. Photography by Greg Carideo

Hubbell’s work is a mediation between Diné philosophy and contemporary western aesthetics and ideologies.

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Your Stars Watch Over As We Await Your Light Of A New Day, 2022 (Detail View)

Incorporating a variety of mediums, including natural earth pigment collected from his Diné homelands, and two-dimensional painting and drawing mediums, Hubbell’s work aims to challenge the imposition of categorizations and to amplify aspects of Indigeous identity within the western ideologies of contemporary art.

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, I Look To The Sky To Feel Your Presence, 2022, Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, enamel on canvas, wood stretcher bar, 81 x 72 in.
  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Everything About You, Installation View. Photography by Greg Carideo

The works in Everything About You reconstruct the canvas in reference to the spiritual embodiment of figure, particularly as it refers to textile, shawl, blanket and medicine bag.

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, You Balance All The Angst, 2021 (Detail View)
  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Everything About You, Installation View. Photography by Greg Carideo

Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné, b. 1986) is To’ahani'(Near to Water Clan), Born for Dibe’lizhini (Black Sheep), Maternal Grandfather is Kinyaa’aanii (Towering House People), Paternal Grandfather is Hona’ghaahnii (One Who Walks Around Clan).

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, You Always Taught Us To Make Something Out Of Nothing, 2022, Oil, acrylic, charcoal, acrylic dispersion, sewn thread on canvas, wood stretcher bars, 72 x 24 in.
  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Everything About You, Installation View. Photography by Greg Carideo

Hubbell’s work has been exhibited at galleries, museums and institutions nationally and internationally and can be found in numerous public and private collections. In 2017, Hubbell was awarded the Pollock-Krasner grant. He is the recipient of the New Artist Society Award (SAIC, 2019), The James Nelson Raymond Fellowship (SAIC, 2021), and is a recent graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, The People Cannot Be Commodified, 2021 (Detail View)
  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Everything About You, Installation View. Photography by Greg Carideo

He currently lives and works on the Navajo Nation.

  • Patrick Dean Hubbell, paintings, Nina Johnson, Everything About You, Navajo
    Patrick Dean Hubbell, Your Warmth Nurtures My Spirit, 2022, Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, enamel on canvas, wood stretcher bar, 81 x 72 in.