Amy Patton October 5, 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 University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and shot entirely in a black box theater at UH, 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 'Oil!'