Patricia Underwood

ARTISTS OF RAPPAHANNOCK
STUDIO AND GALLERY TOUR
November 7 - 8, 2009 10 am - 5 pm

Dear Friends and Patrons,

Please join me for the Fifth Annual Rappahannock Artists Tour Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, 10AM-5PM. Visit my Castle Spring Studio and see new print and mixed media works on fine wood veneers. For more information, visit the RAAC Artists Studio Tour website.

Patricia Underwood

Bodies of Work

"Standing Alone" 15" x 22"

Patricia Underwood's body of multimedia paintings on handmade, pulp-painted paper, incorporating beadwork, pictographs and......... more

"Beauty and the Beach" 34"x34"

In this body of work, models are taken from the popular Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Editions and used as subject matter, examining the inherent messages.............more

"Net Motif" EV1 15"x22"

a body of work that examines female imagery from modern media and prehistoric matriarchal cultures........more

"Tiamat" 26" x 26"

named after the common material used as a base throughout, is a group of pictographic portraits of ancient and sacred deities and concepts.......more

Using her trademark combination of diverse materials, Patricia's latest body of work is a set of nine mixed media encaustic pieces on panel. This work addresses "collateral damage" from US bombing of Afghanistan.

Patricia Underwood has created bodies of work that are as visually pleasing as they are intellectually challenging. She fuses traditional print and paper making techniques with unusual combinations of mixed media to produce bodies of work with richly layered surface textures, employing paint, washes, glazes, beadwork and caulking. The work evokes a sense of the primitive. Her keen love for color is apparent in each piece.

Her compositions speak to the viewer in a deeply personal yet universally accessible language of symbols and shapes, which serve as a vehicle to raise controversial and seemingly insoluble issues. Her 2002 series, "Bimbos and Goddesses", made elegant and intriguing associations between representations of the female figure in our current culture and those in prehistoric matriarchal societies to confront issues of self-esteem and abuse. In her series, "Healing Shields", each piece deals with a specific, painful issue such as domestic violence and racism, and acts as a "visual prayer" for healing.

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