Image: Museum of Art and History, Lancaster
The Lancaster Museum of Art and History will open ‘Daisy Patton: Flowers, Fruits, and Birds’ as part of its Fall 2026 exhibition season.
MOAH will hold an opening celebration for its new fall exhibitions on September 26, 2026, from noon to 4 p.m.
The exhibition explores the intersection of personal memory and intergenerational histories. Drawing from found photographs, archival imagery, and decorative traditions, Patton transforms portraits through vibrant floral interventions and embellishment.
The exhibition reintroduces women from the past as figures suspended between eras. Its title references a passage from Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex,’ in which women are metaphorically associated with flowers, fruits, and birds.
Patton reclaims these symbols as emblems not only of beauty and fragility, but also of growth, resilience, and creation.
