Pentimenti

📣 TONIGHT: GALLERY TALK

Tonight, join us at Pentimenti for a conversation with artist Dan Gunn and Jennifer-Navva Milliken, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum for Art in Wood.

🥂 Gallery Talk
Thursday, May 28 | 6–7 PM
Free & open to the public
Light refreshments will be served

📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

Together, they will discuss the ideas, influences, and process behind “American Interior,” offering insight into Gunn’s practice and how material, memory, and interior space shape his work.

Image I — Gallery Installation View

🔛 Now on view — “When Spring Begins to Speak: Works From Our Collection (Part 2)”. A group exhibition featuring five gallery-represented artists: La Vaughn Belle, Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp, Kiki Gaffney, Judy Gelles, and Raymond Saá. This week, we are featuring the work of artist Raymond Saá.

🗓 Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 AM – 5 PM
Saturday: 12 PM – 5 PM

📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

Raymond Saá is a Cuban-American artist whose abstract, process-driven work deconstructs and reconstructs natural elements, creating motifs that reflect his Cuban heritage and link organic forms with architectural structures. The two works on view evoke the sensation of a first breath of spring, crisp, invigorating, and full of promise.

Image I - III - Untitled (PS202515) | 27 x 21 inches / 69.5 x 53 cm, gouache collage on sewn paper, 2025

🗞️ [Space On Space] “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things”
Highlights from Independent, May 14–17, 2026

"Dan Gunn’s forms are shaped birch wood pieces puzzled together and secured with nylon cord. The result is a strange hybrid between a sculpted 3D model of the object and a rendered 2D representation of its form."

Thank you to Macy West and Space on Space for featuring Pentimenti’s solo presentation of Dan Gunn’s work at Independent.

Image I - Laurel, Sugar and Cheese Dish (Jade-Ite), 44 x 19.5 x 0.75 inches / 112 x 49.5 x 2 cm, acrylic, milk paint, light stable metalized acid dye, and polyurethane on birch plywood and poplar with nylon cord, 2022

📣 Join us at Pentimenti for a gallery talk between artist Dan Gunn and Jennifer-Navva Milliken, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum for Art in Wood.

🥂 Gallery Talk
Thursday, May 28 | 6 - 7 pm
Free & open to the public
Light refreshment will be served

📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

Together, they will explore the ideas, influences, and meticulous craftsmanship that define Gunn’s work, offering guests a rare opportunity to hear directly from the artist about the creative process behind American Interior. The conversation will provide deeper insight into the exhibition’s themes and the ways in which material, memory, and interior space shape Gunn’s practice.

We hope you will join us for an evening of thoughtful dialogue and close engagement with the exhibition.

Image I - Jennifer-Navva Milliken, photo credit: Museum for Art in Wood
Image II - Dan Gunn, photo credit: Joshua Simpson

It feels like summer has begun, come and celebrate at Pentimenti. ☀️ We currently have a group exhibition on view, “When Spring Begins to Speak: Works From Our Collection (Part 2)”. This exhibition features gallery-represented artists, and this week we are highlighting the work of Judy Gelles.

🗓 Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday: 10 AM – 5 PM
Saturday: 12 PM – 5 PM

📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

This series of work stems from her father’s decision to buy a mobile home in Melbourne Beach, FL, to escape the icy New Hampshire winters. Her technique illuminates this community, embodying the dream of retirement, which for many is actually the end of the road.

Image I - III - Mobile Home #4, 15 x 15 inches / 39 x 39 cm, Fuji Crystal Archive print, edition 4/10, 2001–2006

🗞️ [OBSERVER] “Independent Opens With Solo Presentations, Early Sales and (Most Importantly) Breathing Room”

"On the same side of the fair, Philadelphia’s Pentimenti is presenting Dan Gunn’s intricately carved wooden “tapestries,” in which the vernacular of labor and rural Midwestern life is translated into draped plywood forms infused with Americana nostalgia.”

If you haven’t yet, stop by Pentimenti at Booth 503, we’d be happy to welcome you!

Saturday, May 16 | 11 AM – 7 PM.
Sunday, May 17 | 11 AM – 6 PM.

A sincere thank you to Elisa Carollo for her thoughtful writing on Pentimenti’s solo presentation of Dan Gunn.

Featured in The New York Times 🗞️ Join us at Independent —tap the link in our bio for all the details. We’d love to see you there!

📍 Independent
Dan Gunn | Booth 503
Pier 36 New York
🗓️ May 14–17, 2026

“[Independent] remains the New York art fair whose edge most deserves to be called cutting, the one where you stand to learn the most about promising new art.”
—Roberta Smith, The New York Times | Independent Press Campaign

Independent is an invitational art fair that rethinks how contemporary art is presented and experienced. Featuring 73 exhibitors, it brings together a dynamic mix of emerging, mid-career, and established gallery programs, each distinguished by curatorial rigor and vision.

Image III - Calliope Scenery, 58 x 37 x 5 inches / 147 x 94 x 13 cm, acrylic, milk paint, light stable metalized acid dye, and polyurethane on birch plywood and poplar with nylon cord, 2025

Happy Birthday, Mark Khaisman! Wishing you a vibrant year ahead filled with happiness, inspiration, and enriching experiences. 🎂✨

Image I - II - Town, 36 x 48 inches / 91.4 x 121.9 cm, masking tape, acrylic paint on board, 2026

🔔 Namwon Choi’s group exhibition “Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art” at Mattatuck Museum— congrats, Namwon! 👏👏👏
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📍 Mattatuck Museum
144 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT 06702
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🗓 On view until June 21, 2026
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🕛 Museum Hours
Monday : Closed
Tuesday - Saturday: 11 AM - 5 PM
Sunday: 11 AM - 4 pm

“Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art” serves as an outlet for artistic exploration and a platform for the reclaiming of personal agency. The works dismantle stereotypes and redefine ideas of identity within the contexts of historical and current social structures.

Thanks to guest curator Camilo Alvarez and everyone who contributed to the exhibition! ✨

Image I : Installation of the Mattatuck Museum
Photo Credit: Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art, 2026, Mattatuck Museum, photo by [insert credit from filename], courtesy Mattatuck Museum
Image II - III - Cube 36 x 36 x 2 inches / 91.4 x 91.4 x 5 cm, acrylic gouache, acrylic on panel, 2024

Happy Birthday, Michelle! Wishing you a bright year ahead filled with joy, creativity, and meaningful experiences.🎂✨

Image I - Ninigret Cloth | 18.25 x 11 x 4.125 inches / 46.4 x 27.9 x 10.5 cm, mixed media on hand cut lucite, wood, 2022

🔛 Now on view — “When Spring Begins to Speak: Works From Our Collection (Part 2)”. A group exhibition featuring five gallery-represented artists: La Vaughn Belle, Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp, Kiki Gaffney, Judy Gelles, and Raymond Saá. This week, we are featuring the work of artist Kiki Gaffney.

🗓 Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 AM – 5 PM
Saturday: 12 PM – 5 PM

📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

Kiki Gaffney’s work reflects the cyclical rhythms of nature, balancing slow, meditative processes with the unpredictable forces of changing seasons, sun, and wind. Her practice explores how natural “architectures”, patterns that emerge without imposed order, can inform and shape the structures of human life.

Image I - III - When Night Falls, 60 x 22.5 inches / 152 x 57 cm, graphite, pastel, colored pencil, gold leaf, collage on paper, 2025