P·P·O·W. is pleased to announce the a solo exhibition by Dottie Attie, featuring five paintings based on the painting Watson and the Shark by the eighteenth century American painter John Singleton Copley. In these paintings, Dotty Attie utilizes a combination of images taken directly from Watson and the Shark and text drawn from accounts of Copley's life to create a variety of narrative sequences. These narratives not only offer the viewer insights into Copley's painting but also into the historical context from which it originates.

This group of work marks the first time Dotty Attie has devoted the theme of an entire exhibition to sources drawn from a single painting. Her use of Copley's Watson and the Shark is exemplary of her recent work which has been mostly concerned with 18th and 19th century American artists.

These paintings continue Dotty Attie's exploration into the work of well known male artists by using a combination of images drawn from the paintings by these artists and excerpts of biographical text that are some times accurate and other times fictional. Some of the artists Dotty Attie's work has been concerned with in the past include Caravaggio, Ingres, Eakins, Vermeer, and Delacroix.