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); and ICEHOUSE Project Space (Sharon, CT). Recent group exhibitions include: Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME); Felician University (Rutherford, NJ); Equity Gallery, Odetta, Kentler International Drawing Space and The Yard (NYC). 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 residencies from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Yaddo and MacDowell. After many years in NYC, the artist now lives and works in rural Connecticut.




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