New American Paintings

DAISY PATTON

South Hadley, MA

303.590.9800 (K Contemporary)

daisy.a.patton@gmail.com

daisypatton.com

@daisy_patton

Who do we choose to remember, and how do we do it? This fraught terrain encompasses family relationships, identities, and, I collect abandoned family photographs, enlarge them to life-size proportions, then paint over them in an to attempt to reenliven and dislocate the images from their former places and times. By combining paint and photography, I expand Roland Barthes’s theory linking death and the photograph into a loving tribute of remembrance.

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