Gelah Penn
Gelah Penn's work expands the language of drawing in sculptural space. Recent solo exhibitions include: Undercurrent (Brooklyn, NY); Baker Center for the Arts/Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA); Amelie A. Wallace Gallery/SUNY Old Westbury (Old Westbury, NY); Foley Gallery, Bookstein Projects (New York, NY); and ICEHOUSE Project Space (Sharon, CT). Recent group exhibitions include the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME); Felician University (Rutherford, NJ); Odetta, Equity Gallery, Kentler, and The Yard (New York, NY). Her work is in the collections of the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), Arkansas Arts Center, (Little Rock, AR), Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA), Brooklyn Museum Library (Brooklyn, NY) and Gund Library/Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH). Reviews of her work have been published in Art in America, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, d'Art International, Whitehot Magazine, artcritical, and featured in Sculpture Magazine, Art Maze Mag and Peripheral Vision Press. Penn has received a Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant and fellowships from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo and MacDowell. After years in NYC, the artist now lives and works in rural Connecticut.
Signal #5, 2020-21, Polyester mesh, plastic garbage bag, staples, eyelets, T-pins, 12 x 13 ¼ x 1 inches
Rumor #3, 2020, Polyester mesh and tube, mosquito netting, plastic garbage bag, acrylic paint, plastic tarp, Mylar, staples, eyelet, T-pin, 8 x 5 ½ x ½ inches
Rumor #6, 2020, Plastic tarp & garbage bag, translucent YUPO, polyester mesh, Mylar, acrylic paint, staples, eyelet, T-pin, 9 ½ x 5 x 1 inches
Signal #1, 2020, Polyester mesh, plastic garbage bag, Mylar, staples, eyelets, T-pins, 12 ½ x 11 ½ x 2 inches
Signal #2, 2020, Polyester mesh, plastic garbage bag, metallic fabric, staples, eyelets, T-pins, 13 ½ x 13 x 1 ½ inches
Signal #3, 2020, Polyester mesh, plastic garbage bag, polyester tubing, staples, eyelets, T-pins, 12 ½ x 11 ½ x 1 inches