Gelah Penn

Gelah Penn expands the language of drawing in sculptural space. By deploying simple synthetic materials in site-responsive installations and constructed drawings, she foregrounds internal formal and conceptual contradictions: cohesion and fragmentation, balance and vertigo, minuet and jitterbug. Using plastic garbage bags, staples and Mylar, she examines the nature of shadow and visual ambiguity; the resulting expansive abstractions evoke narratives ranging from the ephemeral to the forensic. "My aim is to choreograph events of perceptual incident and psychological dis-ease. My hope is that this conflation of disparate parts—mark, shadow, geometry, gesture, concord, dissonance—results in some sort of vertiginous whole." Her great interest in film, particularly the uneasy territory of film noir, informs the work.

Submitted by Alfa Gallery