Artists

Sam Penn

Press release

Balice Hertling is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Sam Penn.

The show, titled after Mary Gaitskill’s 1988 collection of short stories, consists of nine color photographs taken in New York over the past year featuring portraits, landscapes, and closeups of bodies. Drawing on a device Gaitskill uses to reconstruct memory in flashes of connected imagery, Penn arranges the photographs in a psychological sequence depicting the decay of one relationship and the birth of another.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Penn’s second zine is published by New York Life Gallery, which expands on this sequence with the addition of eleven other photographs.