I am an unruly wind
DAISY PATTON
May 3 – June 22, 2024
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
History is written by the winners, engraved with power structures that suppress and silence. Our historical memory leaves out most people, and that especially includes women and their lineages. Names erased in marriage, their bodies not their own, women have survived as long-ago matriarchs and people whose lives are frequently forgotten. In this moment of increasing gender violence, restrictions and loss of civil rights, I am reminded of how much the present has already been acted out in the past. We’ve danced to this song all too well and too often. In I am an unruly wind, I am interested in the interior lives of those who preceded us, of their relationships and ways they persevered. With each portrait, viewers can imagine and connect with women whose existences and memories have been lost to time, yet who are present before them. The past is often seen as separate from our present, but it repeats and lingers like whispering ghosts. We cannot break free from this haunting until we learn to embrace our fragility—that one wild and precious life—but also each other. Collective care and the recognition that we all deserve bodily autonomy, safety, community and joy are what bring us forward in time. - DP
Untitled (Untitled (6+18+12+6=42+114=156 143)), 2020/2024. Photo Sourced From Varna, Bulgaria. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Frame, 26 x 32 inches
Untitled (B. Foster; Jr. Propri 421 1/2 E. 9th Street, attanooga, Tenne), 2023. Photo Sourced From Eden, NC. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel and Found Mirror Frame, 27.5 x 18 inches
Untitled (Color Fade Woman Posing with Large Leaf and Lilac Vines), 2024. Photo Sourced From Singapore. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Found Mirror Frame, 48 x 45.25 x 7.5 inches.
Untitled (Four Women Near Tree with Yellow Vine and Flowers), 2024. Photo Sourced From Cairo, Egypt. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Frame, 99.5 x 72.75 inches
Untitled (Gifted To My beloved Neophytou Family. 13-7-50 Sophia Petrelli), 2024. Translated from Greek. Photo From Khartoum, Sudan Sourced From Spata, Greece. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel and Found Mirror Frame, 54.75 x 27.5 x 4 inches. SOLD.
Untitled (Pink Woman with Floral Stand), 2023. Translated from Greek. Photo Sourced from Cairo, Egypt. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Canvas with Fabric, Tassels, and Embroidery, 100 x 68 inches.
Untitled (Seated Magenta Woman in the Grass with Tree Leaves and Lily Vines), 2024. Photo Sourced from Phoenix, AZ. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Frame and Crosshead, 67 x 43 inches.
Untitled (Souvenir. During the Feast of the Prophet Elijah July 1930 Karpenisi), 2024. Translated from Greek. Photo Sourced from Spata, Greece. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Canvas with Fabric and Embroidery, 122 x 108 inches.
Untitled (Starry Woman with Loosestrifes), 2022. Photo sourced from Saxapahaw, NC. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Frame and Crosshead, 36.5 x 24.5 inches
Untitled (Studio Lux Mosque Square in Heliopolis April 7, 1961), 2020/2023. Translated from Arabic. Photo from Lebanon Sourced in Los Angeles, CA. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Arch, 97.5 x 68 inches.
Untitled (This photo is only a rough, unretouched proof and is the property of Afe Photo Studio), 2024. Photo Sourced from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel and Found Mirror Frame, 43 x 24 inches
Untitled (Two Women with Blue Cherry Blossoms and Orange Background), 2019/2024 Photo sourced from Saxapahaw, NC. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Frame and Arch, 39 x 25.5 inches
Untitled (Woman in Polka Dots with Flower Crown and Green Vines), 2024. Photo Sourced from Singapore. Oil on Archival Print Mounted to Panel with Frame and Arch, 100 x 61.75 inches.
Untitled (Woman with Blue Curtains and Patterned Skirt), 2024. Photo Sourced from Norco, CA. Oil on archival print mounted to panel with frame and arch, 90.5 x 62 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and an Iranian father she never met. She spent her childhood moving between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by these conflicting cultural landscapes and the ambiguous absences within her family. Influenced by collective and political histories, Patton explores storytelling and story-carrying, the meaning and social conventions of families, and what shapes living memory. Her work also examines in-between spaces and identities, including the fallibility of the body and the complexities of relationship and connection.
Currently residing in western Massachusetts, Patton has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, including a solo at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado, the Chautauqua Institution and the Fulginitti Pavilion at the Center for Bioethics at the Anschutz Medical Campus, as well as group shows with Spring/Break NYC, the Katonah Museum of Art, The Delaware Contemporary, the International Museum of Science and Art, among others. She has paintings held in public and private collections such as the Denver Art Museum, the Tampa Museum of Art, Seattle University, Fidelity Investments Art Collection, and in international airport Boston Logan with Delta Airlines, among others. Patton’s work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Jealous Curator, Transition Magazine, The Denver Post, The Chautauquan Daily, The Seattle Met, and more. Minerva Projects Press has published Broken Time Machines: Daisy Patton, a book with essays and poetry on Patton’s practice that debuted spring 2021.
Patton has completed artist residencies at Anderson Ranch, the Studios at MASS MoCA, RedLine Denver, Minerva Projects, and Eastside International in Los Angeles. She has been awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, an Assets for Artists Massachusetts Matched Savings grant, a Montage Travel Award from SMFA for research in Dresden, Germany, as well as longlisted for the Aesthetica Prize 2022. She earned her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, a multi-disciplinary program, and has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Oklahoma with minors in History and Art History and an Honors degree. K Contemporary represents Patton in Denver, CO, and Koslov Larsen represents her in Houston, TX.