GLASSBORO, NJ.- Rowan University Gallery is pleased to present “The Narrow Margin,” a site-specific installation by Gelah Penn. The exhibition will run from January 15 to February 23 with a reception on Thursday, January 24 from 5 to 7 pm.

In her fourth solo show, Penn continues to explore the linear language of drawing in three-dimensional space. As curator Elizabeth M. Grady has noted, “Gelah Penn’s shimmering installations of knotted monofilament are the very essence of drawing, loosened from its dependence on the wall.”

The artist elaborates, “I use the lexicon of gestural abstraction to articulate expanses of mark-making in space. I mean to construct a kind of substantive ephemerality, an accretion of marks and their shadows delineating maelstroms of visual noise; a luminous sea in suspended animation, with allusions to microscopic activity, arterial systems, knots, dust, and weather”.

The exhibition also includes sculpture and works from Penn’s new “Blackfil” series, relief drawings in monofilament and acrylic paint on Yupo. Developed in response to issues explored in this and previous installations, these pieces engender a compelling dialogue with “The Narrow Margin.”