Gelah Penn's work expands the language of drawing in sculptural space. In her site-responsive installations and wall constructions, she works at the intersection of drawing and sculpture. Through cutting, layering, tearing, stapling, and stretching synthetic materials, Penn foregrounds internal conceptual and formal dualities: substance and immateriality, cohesion and fragmentation, object and image. Her aim is to choreograph events of perceptual incident and psychological unease. Penn's hope is that this conflation of disparate parts — mark, shadow, geometry, gesture, concord, dissonance — results in some sort of vertiginous whole. Her interest in film and fiction informs the work.