Needles & Pens presents,
Shapes in Space by Lena Wolff
an exhibition of collages, drawings, prints and a wood wall sculpture.
Opening Reception, Saturday October 8, 2016 from 6:30 – 8:30 P.M.
With musical performance by Hazy Loper, and a few songs by Ivy Jeanne, Stormy Knight, Daniela Sea, & Alicia McCarthy
Lena Wolff is a San Francisco-Bay Area artist whose work extends out of craft and folk art traditions, while at the same time being grounded in the modern and contemporary movements of minimalism, geometric abstraction, Op art and feminist practice. Her new show Shapes in Space at Needles & Pens presents paper collages, wood wall sculpture and print editions that fluctuate between patterns from nature and the lines of geometric abstraction found in American quilts, forming an interplay of repeated interconnected cosmic symbols.
Wolff is a long-time Bay Area resident who has been a part of the arts community here for over 25 years. She has exhibited at Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, CULT / Aimee Frieberg Exhibitions, Traywick Contemporary, Dominican University, Adobe Books and New Image Arts, among other spaces. Her work is in the collections of the One Archive, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The Alameda County Arts Commission, Facebook, The Cleveland Clinic, The University of Iowa Museum and The Zuckerman Museum of Art, among others. In 2018, Wolff will be an artist-in-residence at the De Young Museum. She lives with her wife Miriam Klein Stahl, artist and illustrator of the children’s books Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide, with their daughter Hazel in Berkeley, California.
