Tradition, Transformed: The art of Patrick Dean Hubbell

Patrick Dean Hubbell brings cultural, indigenous patterns into his personal style of gestural mark-making, which conveys urgency and immediacy. (Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block/Submitted) Visual artist Patrick Dean Hubbell joined a Zoom interview from outside, while helping to clear flood damage near his home in the Navajo Nation.“We got hit pretty hard with the flooding and everything last night, so I try to be outside to help around and be involved with the roads and all that,” said Hubbell, whose exhibition “After Everything, You Embraced My Being Like A Warm, Gentle Breeze” is on view at the Tucson Museum of Art through March 21, 2027.Hubbell’s home is critical to the artist, both in life and in art. Born and raised in the Navajo Nation, he inherited his artistic bent from his creative family, namely his father, a graphic designer and illustrator.

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