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Penn's "thick, energetic brushwork builds to a climax of heavy grays and browns. She slices up her paintings, as she puts it, using the 'jigsaw as a cubist weapon.' The way she presents the finished pieces — spread across the wall and sometimes the floor - is a belligerant defiance of painting as ambient decoration . . .
As so many other landscape painters keep the lawns orderly . . . [Penn] is digging at the uneasy beauty of the weeds."

— Randy Gragg, Oregonian, 6/17/94

 

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