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I expand the language of drawing in
sculptural space. In site-responsive installations, I deploy a variety of
synthetic materials to invade, interpret and confound the architectural
parameters of a given space. The works in my Polyglot
drawing series foreground the same internal formal and conceptual
contradictions: cohesion and fragmentation, balance and vertigo, minuet and
jitterbug.
My great interest in film, particularly
the uneasy territory of film noir, informs the work.
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Images
1, 2, 3. Situations, 2017 (large details)
Plastic tarps, foam rubber, lenticular plastic, Denril, plastic garbage bags, polyethylene
sheets, stainless steel Choreboys, black foil, mosquito netting, latex & silicone tubing,
mosquito netting, metal rods & staples, acrylic paint, rubber ball, upholstery & T-pins
Approximately 132 x 432 x 365 inches
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
Plastic tarps, foam rubber, lenticular plastic, Denril, plastic garbage bags, polyethylene
sheets, stainless steel Choreboys, black foil, mosquito netting, latex & silicone tubing,
mosquito netting, metal rods & staples, acrylic paint, rubber ball, upholstery & T-pins
Approximately 132 x 432 x 365 inches
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
4. The Big Red One, Two, 2017
Mosquito netting, foam rubber, foiled thermal insulation, Mylar, lenticular plastic,
plastic garbage bags, silicone tubing, monofilament, acrylic paint, Whiffle ball,T-pins
Approximately 104 x 130 x 65 inches
Studio view
5. Big Serial Polyglot Y (+1), 2016
Plastic garbage bags, lenticular plastic, digital prints, acrylic
paint, stainless steel choreboy, metal staples & eyelets on
Mylar & YUPO
As shown: 108 x 126 x 96 inches
6. Sliced Polyglot #6, 2016
Plastic garbage bags, metal
staples & eyelets on Mylar
72 x 40 x 1.5 inches
7. Sliced Polyglot #7, 2016-17
Plastic garbage bags, metal staples
& eyelets on lenticular plastic
96 x 32 x 2.5 inches
Mosquito netting, foam rubber, foiled thermal insulation, Mylar, lenticular plastic,
plastic garbage bags, silicone tubing, monofilament, acrylic paint, Whiffle ball,T-pins
Approximately 104 x 130 x 65 inches
Studio view
5. Big Serial Polyglot Y (+1), 2016
Plastic garbage bags, lenticular plastic, digital prints, acrylic
paint, stainless steel choreboy, metal staples & eyelets on
Mylar & YUPO
As shown: 108 x 126 x 96 inches
6. Sliced Polyglot #6, 2016
Plastic garbage bags, metal
staples & eyelets on Mylar
72 x 40 x 1.5 inches
7. Sliced Polyglot #7, 2016-17
Plastic garbage bags, metal staples
& eyelets on lenticular plastic
96 x 32 x 2.5 inches
8. Sliced Polyglot #5, 2016
Plastic garbage bags,
metal staples & eyelets
on Mylar
56.5 x 31.5 x 3 inches
Plastic garbage bags,
metal staples & eyelets
on Mylar
56.5 x 31.5 x 3 inches
About
Gelah Penn's work has been exhibited widely. She is represented in the collections
of the Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA), Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC),
Brooklyn Museum Library (Brooklyn, NY) and Cleveland Institute of Art/Gund
Library (Cleveland, OH). Exhibitions have been reviewed Art in America, The
New York Times, artcritical.com, The Brooklyn Rail and a feature in Sculpture Magazine. Penn
received a Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant and fellowships from the Marie
Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. The artist lives and
works in New York City.
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