Becca Barolli, Eric Kunsman, Dane Singh

Opening Events, Saturday, February 15:
* Artist Talks:  2:30 – 3:00 pm
* Reception:  3:00 – 5:00 pm

Exhibition Dates:  February 14 – March 22

[Pictured: Eric Kunsman, “The Drapery”]

The work of Becca Barolli features abstract steel wire sculptures which utilize textile processes to examine issues of obsession and control within the artmaking process. Becca’s work is handmade and unrelentingly labor intensive, consistently fueled by a compulsive need for repetition and reverence. Through endurance-based processes she repeats stereotypical feminine gestures, defying the intended industrial function of her materials.

An exhibition of photographs documents the Eastern State Penitentiary, a former prison in Philadelphia, PA. Through this body of photographs Eric Kunsman captures the atmosphere experienced by the prisoners during the extended period when the penitentiary was active, in part depicted by photographs of entries from the Warden’s logbooks from the 1800s.

In the Annex Dane Singh presents a series of figurative drawings depicting ambiguous bodies in anguish. Dark psychological conditions of being and an inner sense of turmoil become manifest through kinetic human forms. Singh relies upon an extensive knowledge of formal technique through his use of materials such as charcoal and paint on a variety of surfaces