Opening Reception: “Collages from Notes on Clarissa, Volume II”, by Gelah Penn

Opening Reception Saturday, September 16 from 5 – 7pm.  The show will be on display through October.  Registration is requested for the opening reception.

“Collages from Notes on Clarissa, Volume II“, by Gelah Penn is an ongoing project inspired by the 18th-century epistolary novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. The novel’s four-volume story is told primarily through the correspondence (500+ letters) between its four principal characters, and details the drama of a young woman’s seduction, violation, and ultimate tragedy. Each volume of Notes on Clarissa uses source images of one of Penn’s site-responsive installations, and each collage alludes to one of the letters in the novel. The 129 collages of Volume II are derived from 5 x 7-inch printed cards of Penn’s 2017 installation Situations, Zone 6 (Rockland) in “Materiality: The Matter of Matter” at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, ME. The exhibition at the Cornwall Library includes 20 collages from Volume II.