"How Else Can I Tell You," a body of work by Sophie Brenneman, will be on display Feb. 13 through April 3 in the Sheetz Gallery of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
ALTOONA, Pa. — "How Else Can I Tell You," a body of work by Sophie Brenneman, will be on display from Feb. 13 through April 3 in the Sheetz Gallery of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Brenneman is an assistant teaching professor of visual art studies at Penn State Altoona. She earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in drawing and painting from the University of Southern Mississippi and her master of fine arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Through layers of uncanny visual metaphors, sensory symbols, and fragments of known things, Brenneman creates a body of work that stems from the ache associated with the inability to articulate an idea beyond language; an attempt to try and show the feeling of time, trauma, nostalgia and other abstract ideas: “Through both written and visual language, I attempt the impossible task of explaining myself to you by pinning down fears, contradictions, and emotions with the precision they deserve. But each time I am reminded: language falters, images distort, meaning fractures. How else can I tell you?”
The galleries are open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For further information, call the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at 814-949-5452.
