After Everything, You Embraced My Being Like A Warm, Gentle Breeze

The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block is organizing the first solo museum exhibition in Arizona of Patrick Dean Hubbell (b. 1986, Diné), an interdisciplinary visual artist that currently lives and works on his ancestral homelands on the Navajo Nation. His artistic practice bears Indigenous knowledge systems, expressed through a critical engagement with materials and mark-making. Bringing together recent paintings and works on paper, After Everything, You Embraced My Being Like A Warm, Gentle Breeze attends to the artist’s expansive use of mediums, abstractions, and forms of display as sites of generation and intervention. Hubbell’s work prompts deep reflection on Indigenous presence and sovereignty in contemporary art and unsettles the structures that have historically defined its terms.​​

Hubbell is also developing a major new site-specific installation, inaugurating a series at TMA that invites artists from all over the world to respond to the Sonoran Desert environmentally, culturally, historically, socially, or politically. Positioned in the Museum’s entryway, Mooney Hall, Hubbell’s installation will be on view for two years, setting the tone for a program that generates globally relevant dialogue rooted in this region.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website