Dragon Lady
Item
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Title
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Dragon Lady
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Creator
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Patti Warashina
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Artist ID
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63
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Description
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3D sculpture of a woman with arrows in her hair, with a 3D dragon protruding from the piece below her.
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Category of Media
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Ceramic
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Media
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Porcelain sculpture/ painting
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Accession Number
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1977.011
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Location
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COM, 3rd Floor, Gallery Overlooking CRC
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Acquisition Method
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Purchase
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Dimensions of Work
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24.5" x 15" x 13.5"
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Frame Dimensions
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33" x 24" x 20"
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Donor or Seller
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Polly Friedlander Gallery
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Artist Bio
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Patti Warashina (born Spokane, 1940) is an important ceramics artist because of her contributions to the medium as well as her interest in challenging gender barriers. In 1970 she and artist Howard Kottler taught at the University of Washington and were instrumental in helping to build one of the strongest ceramic and sculpture departments on the West Coast. Warashina’s work is often humorous, offering clay figures placed in imagined environments that show her subversive thinking.
Source: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/patti-warashina-6573
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Abstract
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Warashina explores feminine themes in a group called "Altars." with a strong frontal presentation and quasi-religious qualities. Each Altar focuses on a single woman whose head, torso, and upper arms are painted on a flat back, and whose arms below the elbows project out over a flat base. Various degrees of low relief may mediate between. These Altars have a structural resemblance to the side panels of medieval and Renaissance Christian altarpieces in which various saints are shown half-length and their identity designated by the items they hold. In Warashina's Altars, themes of the suffering housewife are frequently incorporated and often amusing. Conversely, she uses motifs of women's startling power or domination. The Altars deal with the complex problem of interactions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional aspects of the works.
Source: wall text at Bellevue Arts Museum
