THIS Gallery is proud to present a new solo exhibition by Shannon Pawliw.

Don’t be fooled by its bubblegum pink and cheery disposition. Watershed finds, as its starting point, nostalgia, memory, and above all, loss.

The exhibition includes a series called Forgotten Classmates. Six cross-stitched portraits of children from her kindergarten class that she can no longer recall. The subjects were chosen from her 1975 yearbook.

There is also a series of portraits painted using intentionally low-lightfast paint that are intended to fade over time.

Many of the works featured in Watershed are based on discarded family photographs and supplemented with anonymous stories collected by Pawliw over the last 20+ years. The paintings, stories and sculptures create new narratives intended to replace the ones lost to time.