Press Release
October
RawSpace at ARC Gallery 1040 West Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60622 Xan Palay works with glass, neon and other sculptural media. Her work examines sexuality and sensuality, death, romance, and loss. In the past few years, she exhibited installation sculptures at Spaces in Cleveland,Ohio, Acme Art in Columbus, Ohio Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, Massachusetts and other work in juried shows throughout the United States. She was awarded an OAC Individual Artists Fellowship, an OAC Development Grant, a NEA/Arts Midwest Individual Fellowship, a NEA/Arts Midwest Art works Fund Grant and the Louise Bourgeois endowed residency at YADDO in New York. She is a 1993 graduate of The Ohio State University and lives in Columbus, Ohio.
"Romantic Geometry" is a new installation sculpture, custom created by Xan Palay, for the RawSpace at the ARC Gallery. A geometric diagram, embedded in a paper and fabric crust, lines the floor of the entire exhibition space. Small, hanging light bulbs illuminate the floor and guide the viewer through the installation. Periodic audio statements transform the geometry from an expression of scientific rigidity into an experience of exploring affection and conflict by way of spatial relationships.
