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From Los Angeles, Daisy Patton moved back and forth between Oklahoma and California during her childhood. Patton’s practice is focused on history, memory, and social commentary, exploring family relationships, hidden histories, and what it means to be a person in our contemporary world. Currently residing in Easthampton, MA, Patton has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Oklahoma with minors in History and Art History and an Honors degree. Her MFA is from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, a multi-disciplinary program. Patton has completed artist residencies at Minerva Projects, Anderson Ranch, the Studios at MASS MoCA, RedLine Denver, and Eastside International in Los Angeles. She has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, including her first museum solo at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado. K Contemporary represents Patton in Denver, and J. Rinehart represents her in Seattle.
Published on February 18th, 2020. Artist responses collected in months previous.
What projects are you working on right now?
I have four large, on-going series currently: "I'm Perfectly Fine Without You" (sound project, updated irregularly but still active), since 2010; "Forgetting is so long" (painting series), since 2014; "Would you be lonely without me?" (painting/embroidery series), since 2016; untitled forced sterilization series (possible title: "They Took My Heart and Left a Stone", embroidery series), since 2015.
How do you keep yourself accountable in your practice?
Accountability has never been an issue for me; I love and am obsessed with working! I set personal goals of how much work I want to accomplish by certain dates (ex: 2 paintings a month, embroidery piece in 2 months), as well as work towards certain show deadlines. I consistently work in studio 6-7 days a week, unless interrupted by health issues, travel, or other unexpected things. I have been fortunate to have a good deal of work that I'd like to make, more than the time I necessarily have. As long as I am working consistently, that has been a great measure of accountability. Not working gives me a tremendous amount of anxiety, and I feel the deadlines loom. Even if I didn't have deadlines, not being able to work is not something I enjoy in any way.
How do you stay motivated to pursue your creative work?
Setting goals and pursuing series to their fullest are huge motivators in my creative practice. I am currently waiting for my studio to be constructed and a moving truck to arrive, so I am frustrated not being able to work in the ways I would like to. I am using that time to organize/file other aspects of my practice, but the work itself is what drives me forward creatively and otherwise.
Where do you hope to be 10 years from now and what would you like to say to yourself?
There are always career goals many artists have (museum shows, exhibitions in certain cities, residencies, etc.), and of course I am no exception. That said, I am hopeful that my painting practice continues to deepen; I hope that I have started another painting series/have actualized current series to their fullest. My focus is on myself and improving my work, complicating it and pushing it to its furthest reaches. I think as long as I am making good work, work that leaves me just dissatisfied enough to continue, that feels like a wonderful goal in ten year's time. With my health being uncertain, I frankly don't know what condition I will be in. I hope that in ten years, I can look back and be happy that I did all the things I had wanted to do when I did so. Thus far, that factor has accelerated where I thought I would have been just five years ago.
What projects are you working on right now?
I have four large, on-going series currently: "I'm Perfectly Fine Without You" (sound project, updated irregularly but still active), since 2010; "Forgetting is so long" (painting series), since 2014; "Would you be lonely without me?" (painting/embroidery series), since 2016; untitled forced sterilization series (possible title: "They Took My Heart and Left a Stone", embroidery series), since 2015.
How do you keep yourself accountable in your practice?
Accountability has never been an issue for me; I love and am obsessed with working! I set personal goals of how much work I want to accomplish by certain dates (ex: 2 paintings a month, embroidery piece in 2 months), as well as work towards certain show deadlines. I consistently work in studio 6-7 days a week, unless interrupted by health issues, travel, or other unexpected things. I have been fortunate to have a good deal of work that I'd like to make, more than the time I necessarily have. As long as I am working consistently, that has been a great measure of accountability. Not working gives me a tremendous amount of anxiety, and I feel the deadlines loom. Even if I didn't have deadlines, not being able to work is not something I enjoy in any way.
How do you stay motivated to pursue your creative work?
Setting goals and pursuing series to their fullest are huge motivators in my creative practice. I am currently waiting for my studio to be constructed and a moving truck to arrive, so I am frustrated not being able to work in the ways I would like to. I am using that time to organize/file other aspects of my practice, but the work itself is what drives me forward creatively and otherwise.
Where do you hope to be 10 years from now and what would you like to say to yourself?
There are always career goals many artists have (museum shows, exhibitions in certain cities, residencies, etc.), and of course I am no exception. That said, I am hopeful that my painting practice continues to deepen; I hope that I have started another painting series/have actualized current series to their fullest. My focus is on myself and improving my work, complicating it and pushing it to its furthest reaches. I think as long as I am making good work, work that leaves me just dissatisfied enough to continue, that feels like a wonderful goal in ten year's time. With my health being uncertain, I frankly don't know what condition I will be in. I hope that in ten years, I can look back and be happy that I did all the things I had wanted to do when I did so. Thus far, that factor has accelerated where I thought I would have been just five years ago.
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