Smile Politely

Check out the artwork of local Black artists at Avionics

Jessica Hammie

Local artists and University of Illinois School of Art + Design professors Patrick Earl Hammie and Stacey Robinson currently have work on view at Avionics.

You can visit Avionics to purchase some beverages (and, in July, food, too), as well as Page Roasting Company coffee. To enter Avionics, you must wear a mask, and only three people are permitted inside at a time. Current horus are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Three vertial artworks are hung on a wall. On the left and on the right are two digital prints with Afrofuturist themes by Stacey Robinson. The left images features a woman's face, though the eyes are obscured by a design. The background is purple and has stars. On the right is an image of a pyramid with a spaceship hovering above and to the left. The spacehship is beaming light down. The background is red. In the center is a portrait of a young black woman with an Afro by Patrick Earl Hammie. Photo by Jessica Hammie. Artwork, l-r: © Stacey Robinson; © Patrick Earl Hammie, Ingrid Silva Drawing, 2018; © Stacey Robinson. Photo by Jessica Hammie.

A painting by Patrick Earl Hammie: Ingrid Silva, 2018. The painted portrait is large and done in earth tones and browns. The woman is pictured facing the viewer, unsmiling. She has an Afro. The painting is hung on an off white wall. To the left of the painting is a countertop with a stack of records for sale. Above the records is a wall-hung clock. Photo by Jessica Hammie. © Patrick Earl Hammie, Ingrid Silva, 2018. Photo by Jessica Hammie.

© Stacey Robinson. Photo by Jessica Hammie.

Avionics
202 S First St
Champaign
M-Sa 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Top image by Jessica Hammie.

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