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Exhibition of Drawings by Sky Pape to Open at June Kelly Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Water Works: Surface Tension, an exhibition of drawings by Sky Pape that demonstrates once again the artist’s ability to push the boundaries of the medium, will open at the June Kelly Gallery on February 5. It will remain on view through March 9. Pape creates her drawings by an unconventional process — working on the floor and blowing ink through tubes and funnels onto handmade paper from Japan, Korea and Nepal. “In a sense,” Pape says, “I breathe life into these drawing, using my lungs to propel the ink. But as much as they reflect my physical being, biological forms and systems, they also elicit a broader, innate recognition of the natural world. Growth and decay, beauty and brutality are the rudiments of this language. These forms and lines divulge our connectedness with nature, a reminder of our shared fragility.” For Pape, drawing is the core of any art, and