Patricia Schnall Gutierrez: Remember Me

The exhibition explores six decades of personal narratives from multidisciplinary artist Patricia Schnall Gutierrez. Working in sculpture, installation, film, collage, and performance, Schnall Gutierrez’s work interplays between past and present to consider fresh perspectives on the narratives that shape women’s lives. Through interrogating her own identities as a woman, artist, mother, and wife, as well as the realities of others in these roles, the exhibition explores the intersections, tension, acceptance, and challenges of these identities and the experiences they entail. 

Central to Schnall Gutierrez’s work is examining the fluidity of memories as they shift understandings of self and alter broader societal perceptions of femininity. She notes, “Memories make us who we are. As we age and our experiences and memories accumulate, we form new ways of reacting to and perceiving the world.” Schnall Gutierrez incorporates intrigue, humor, and absurdity to chronicle the evolution of imposed and assumed roles of feminine identity through lived experience. Her multidisciplinary approach enables her to consider the relationships between material, process, and outcome in unraveling these temporal threads.

Patricia Schnall Gutierrez: Remember Me is presented through the support of The Tower Family Fund, and also through generous gifts from Rachel & Scott Stenclik and Flora Schnall & Up-Wingers Inc. For his additional support, we gratefully acknowledge Harvey Traison. And, as always, none of what we do would be possible without the continued generosity of our Burchfield Penney members.