REMEMBER ME, Solo exhibition at Burchfield Penney Museum
"Sleepwalk" detail
Solo Exhibition retrospective at the Burchfield Penney Museum
May 10 - October 27. 2024 1300 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY
Memories, like identities, are hardly ever linear and absolute. Rather, they are nuanced, imperfect, and layered. We experience a myriad of personal and social influences that help shape and reshape our identities over time. Multidisciplinary artist Patricia Schnall Gutierrez considers how disjointed memories inform identity and broader perceptions of femininity. Remember Me interrogates imposed roles of femininity while infusing the artist’s narratives as a woman, artist, mother, and wife.
The artist mines histories, acknowledging how the past informs the present to create what she considers “a contemporary chronicle of life interwoven with memories of joy, sorrow, growth, and introspection.” Fragmentation is a continuous theme as Schnall Gutierrez ponders the relationship between material, form, and outcome.
References to domestic chores throughout her work address the underlying strain of traditional feminine roles and the experiences they entail. Erased in the Wash (2013), which combines a sprawling 200-foot washing machine hose with aud
