Kate Petley: Penumbra presents work that turns light into structure and structure into image. Petley builds temporary sculptural arrangements of painted materials, photographs them in intensely lit environments at the moment of their brief existence, then translates the resulting images onto canvas through selective painted passages that are nearly imperceptible. The surface remains insistently flat even as it evokes shimmering, holographic depth — the line between object, document, and illusion elegantly undone across sculpture, photography, and painting.
