{NEW WORK} New Paintings by Vanessa Devaki Andrew

The tension of mediums collides in a multi-media tangle all asking the same question: utility or non-utility? Painting, sculpture, screenprinting, embroidery, crafts. The avenues as well: embroidery hoops, stretcher bars, fabrics and clothing, zines and papergoods. Trained as a painter, Penny Spencer (turned fibers artist, aka Madam Chino) has been colliding, joining, and bending mediums and avenues into somewhat strange features. Bound by the terms of social accessibility, utility rules the majority of work produced. The underlying urge to create forces its way through an expectant room, leaving evidence of its unruly nature in completely unusable forms. Narratives that leave viewers wondering who and what=for?

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STOMACH 1


STOMACH 2


STOMACH 3

TELEFISHION

{MONTESSORI MURAL!} finished

{PETITE POSITIVE POSTERS} Penny Spencer Mini-Zine Pre-Release

Positive Posters by Penny Spencer is a series of brainstorms for posters created while working with a group of kids at Agape Community Center. We each published our own positive posters, but this was my set created for group projects with students to join in on when their attendance wasn't perfect; doing both t-shirt screenprinting and poster-making.

Giant file cabinets are time capsules both purposefully and accidentally.

Organizing the proper system to match a process is an architecture in itself, yet again, a note slipped into the wrong file or simply a folder becoming a now-defunct process can temporarily or permanently sever an item from relevancy for pure dislocation.

Once in a while, we go back in to clear out, add to, and reconfigure, finding new life for old items or maybe placing the item with its original purpose after all.

So Penny alas, is currently formatting this small set of copywritten images into mini-zine format! This is ya pre-release preview!


XO,
Penny $pencer INK!

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