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Clash By Night (detail), 2009, site-specific installation, mixed media. Photo by John Groo
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Clash By Night (detail), 2009, site-specific installation, mixed media. Photo by John Groo
Gelah Penn
Clash by Night
in the news:
Thursday, August 20, 2009: "Clash By Night: Shadows Become Art" by Roger Catlin, Hartford Courant
Gelah Penn’s work is both sparse and substantial. Her site-specific installation presents jagged, three dimensional lines, shapes, and colors set against stark white walls. The unconventional materials used in her work include vinyl lanyard, monofilament, plastic mesh, rubber & vinyl tubing, plastic & Styrofoam balls, and upholstery needles.
Artist Statement
“In my recent work I explore the linear language of drawing in three-dimensional space using the lexicon of gestural abstraction. By manipulating colored monofilament and other tendril-like materials, I mean to construct a kind of substantive ephemerality, an accretion of marks and their shadows delineating maelstroms of visual noise; a luminous expanse in suspended animation, conjuring microscopic activity, arterial systems, dust, and weather.”
About the Artist:
Gelah Penn was born in Beaver Falls, PA, and attended the San Francisco Art Institute and Brandeis University. Exhibition history includes solo and group exhibitions at the Kentler International Drawing Space, Smack Mellon, and the Sculpture Center.