New Narratives. Patricia Watwood

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1 New Narratives Patricia Watwood

2 New Narratives Dacia Gallery, NYC Exhibition Dates: November 18 - December 13, 2015 daciagallery.com

3 The centerpieces of the show are two large multi-figure narrative paintings that I have been working on over a period of two years. As my work has developed, I have felt compelled to make larger, more complex work that brings narrative storytelling into compositions. Orpheus is essentially the story of going to the ends of the earth for someone you love, and tells that music, art and human relationships are the things worth living for. By contrast, The Sixth Extinction highlights the vulnerability and crisis of our earth in our age of anxiety and climate change. The three women are allegorical figures: Gaia, the primordial earth goddess, a caryatid and a naiad - all classic characters drawn from the history of art and cast to symbolize humanity s precarious position. They embody our emotional overwhelm in the face of the transformations in the world brought about by humans. Technology is both our destruction hope, and our proper relationship to it our salvation. The other component of the show is a series of drawings and small paintings that explore similar pictorial terrain and use the allegorical combination of women who embody the sacred feminine within a narrative setting of our changing environment. Caryatids bear the weight of civilization, so the fallen caryatid is a metaphor culture s potential collapse, our burden, and peril. The Zephyrs are wind spirits - representing the blowing winds of change. Sybils are prophet figures - seers of the future and harbingers of danger. The Lunettes and Femen drawings and painting represent power in feminine form and agency to implement change. These paintings and drawings reflect the way in which I am responding to the great sea change afoot in the world, known as the Great Turning. Altogether, the work in this show is an attempt to embody my emotional and visual relationship to that transforming and vulnerable world. Patricia Watwood 2015

4 Orpheus Playing for Persephone and Eurydice in the Underworld, , oil on canvas, 72 x 108 inches

5 detail of Orpheus Playing for Persephone and Eurydice in the Underworld

6 detail of Orpheus Playing for Persephone and Eurydice in the Underworld

7 detail of Orpheus Playing for Persephone and Eurydice in the Underworld

8 The Sixth Extinction, 2015, oil on linen, 67 ½ x 51 ½ inches

9 detail of The Sixth Extinction

10 detail of The Sixth Extinction

11 detail of The Sixth Extinction

12 Femen Flora, 2014, oil on linen, 28 x 26 inches

13 Pink Sybil, 2015, oil on linen, 20 x 14 inches

14 Fallen Caryatid I (snake), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches

15 Fallen Caryatid II (bridge), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches

16 Fallen Caryatid III (factory), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches

17 Fallen Caryatid IV (lighthouse), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches

18 Zephyr I (container ship), 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches

19 Zephyr II (oil drilling rig), 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches

20 Lunette I (Anna) 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 15 x 15 inches

21 Lunette II (Sarah) 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 15 x 15 inches

22 Femen Flora (Sarah) 2015, pencil and chalk on blue paper, 16 ¾ x13 ½ inches

23 Femen Flora (Larissa) 2015, pencil and chalk on blue paper, 18 ¼ x 14 inches

24 Study for The Sixth Extinction, 2015, sanguine, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 44 x 30 inches

25 Price List Paintings: Orpheus Playing for Persephone and Eurydice in the Underworld, 2013, oil on canvas, 72 x 108 inches $60,000 The Sixth Extinction, 2015, oil on linen, 67 ½ x 51 ½ inches $45,000 Femen Flora, 2014, oil on linen, 28 x 26 inches $12,000 Pink Sybil, 2015, oil on linen, 20 x 14 inches $4,000 Drawings: Fallen Caryatid I (snake), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches $2,400 Fallen Caryatid II (bridge), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches $2,400 Fallen Caryatid III (factory), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches $2,400 Fallen Caryatid IV (lighthouse), 2015, pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches $2,400 Zephyr I (container ship), 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches $2,400 Zephyr II (oil drilling rig), 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 inches $2,400 Lunette I (Anna), 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 15 x 15 inches $1,800 Lunette II (Sarah), 2015, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 15 x 15 inches $1,800 Femen Flora (Sarah), 2015, pencil and chalk on blue paper, 16 ¾ x 13 ½ inches $2,000 Femen Flora (Larissa), 2015, pencil and chalk on blue paper, 18 ¼ x 14 inches $2,000 Study for The Sixth Extinction, 2015, sanguine, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 44 x 30 inches $6,000 Contact: patriciawatwood@nyc.rr.com mobile: (646) patriciawatwood.com All images copyright Patricia Watwood