GELAH PENN: ON DANGEROUS GROUND / April 8–May 8, 2005

 

 
“On Dangerous Ground” by Gelah Penn is a site-specific installation that explores sculptural space through the linear language of drawing. Penn’s recent work explores drawing in space, using the lexicon of gestural abstraction to articulate landscapes of mark making. By manipulating colored monofilament and other tendril-like materials, it conveys the scruffiness and fragility of line on paper, while retaining the integrity of sculptural form. The accretion of marks and their shadows settles into a luminous sea of suspended animation, with allusions to microscopic activity, arterial systems, knots, and weather.