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Daisy Patton Art

American

Daisy Patton’s cheerfully dysfunctional portraits are bound to remind you of pictures from somebody’s attic, those old crinkle-edged Kodak photos or studio shots that commemorate engagements, high-school graduations and informal family get-togethers. Yet there are sharp and unsettling differences. Faces in Patton’s paintings and her other art may be obliterated with garish masks of color, outrageous patterns take over sedate everyday attire and creeping vegetation threatens to engulf the unsuspecting subjects.

Patton has been fascinated by photography’s slippery documentary function, and by the artist’s role as voyeur, since before she received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston in 2011. In many of her series, Patton enlarges old studio photographs and embellishes them with inks or paint, often conferring a giddy surreality to the original subjects.

Other works are realized in embroidery or more traditional mediums like watercolor or oil on panel. In less than a decade, she has produced several striking bodies of work, a few of which are ongoing.

“Patton veils, conceals and reveals elements of the human figure in a way that entices the viewer to rediscover the familiar intricacies of human nature,” says Dariya Bryant, director of K Contemporary, in Denver. “Her delicate floral patterns lead the eye through the composition with intent, enveloping the viewer in a reverie of memory, identity and loss. Drawing attention to the facial expressions, hands and limbs — parts that express our innermost feelings outward — Patton relays the individual stories her subjects once lived and gives tribute to these lives in a beautiful, sorrowful, yet hopeful way.”

Over time, partly in response to the conservative political tide, Patton has been developing two series about reproductive rights — specifically, the issues of illegal abortion and forced sterilization (between 1907 and 1963, some 64,000 people were forcibly sterilized under eugenic legislation in the United States).

“These issues are two sides of the same coin,” she says. “The general public doesn’t remember how awful it was before Roe v. Wade, how many women died from abortions. I’m doing a lot of research, trying to find pictures of women and seeking out women who may still be alive who suffered forced sterilization.”

Patton’s art is teasingly ingratiating; often, its radical underpinnings take a while to digest. But when they do, the message packs a wallop.

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Artist: Daisy Patton
Untitled (Orange Woman with White and Green Flowers)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (Father with Two Daughters and Painted Backdrop with Campions)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...
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2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (Mother and Father with Two Daughters and White Flowers)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (Color Fade Mother and Child with Summer Snowflakes)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...
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2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (3 Jun. 1943)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panel. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (Starry Mother and Child with Ocean Backdrop)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (Toto Bahri Gece Ve Gundüz Emrinizdedir Dükkin Tel 3101)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (Mrs Evelyn Sims step daughter an her daughter)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Untitled (Five Patterned Women on the Ledge with White Flowers)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
comprised of two panels each 96"x40" exhibition history: "Uncovered Spaces" at the International Museum of Art and Science in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Arts at...
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2010s Feminist Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Archival Pigment

Untitled (A Walking Woman's Collective)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Paper

Untitled (Mother and Daughter in the Yard)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Two Women with Green and Gold Robes and Floral Pattern)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Two Women Holding Hands with Painted Backdrop)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Julia)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Sisters in a Golden Forest
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Blue Woman with Bouquet)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Panel, Archival Pigment, Oil

Untitled (Sisters at the Beach)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Family Portrait with Photograph)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Daughter and Mother with Doublefile Viburnum)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (M L Ruby Chen Joyce Kwok C L)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Seated Woman with Plant and Flowers)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Family Members with Patterned Dresses and Car)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
In Forgetting is so long, Daisy Patton collects abandoned, anonymous family photographs, enlarges them past their familiar size, and paints over them. She uses paint to disrupt, to reimagine, to re-enliven these individuals removed from their space and time. Family photographs are sacred relics to their loved ones, but unmoored the images become hauntingly absent. Taussig states that defacing these types of objects forces a “shock into being;” suddenly we perceive them as present, revered, and piercing. By mixing painting with photography, she lengthens Roland Barthes’ “moment of death” (the photograph) into a loving act of remembrance yet also a form of purgatory. Not alive but not quite dead, each person’s newly imagined and altered portrait...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Archival Pigment

Untitled (In a Meadow)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
From Los Angeles, California, Daisy Patton moved back and forth between Oklahoma and California during her childhood. She spent much of her early years reading adventure and detective tales, history and art history books...
Category

2010s Contemporary Daisy Patton Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment

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