Artist and Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Tom McGlynn speaks with artist Gelah Penn about her current exhibition, materiality and abstraction, film and fiction, and everything in between.
IN ADDITION: Uneasy Terms has been selected for discussion at The Review Panel, artcritical's forum at the Brooklyn Public Library, taking place Wednesday, March 11, 7–9 pm. This is a live discussion before an audience recorded for later podcast.
Gelah Penn’s recent solo exhibitions include the Baker Center for the Arts/Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA); Amelie A. Wallace Gallery/SUNY Old Westbury (Old Westbury, NY); ODETTA/Chelsea, 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); Kentler International Drawing Space, and The Yard (New York, NY). Her work is in the collections of the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), 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, The New Criterion, 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 the MacDowell Colony. The artist lives and works in Connecticut and New York City.
Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in the New York City area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian. He is an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail where he has contributed interviews and criticism since 2012. His most recent show of paintings was held at Rick Wester Fine Art in NYC in the fall of 2017, and he’ll be showing a new suite of paintings there opening on Feb 27, 2020. He currently maintains a studio at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, where he was awarded a 2019-2020 residency.
