OVERCLOUDED
Leah Beeferman
CLOSING EVENT
Leah Beeferman in conversation with
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Sunday, February 9th, 2025, 4 PM
Penumbra Highlight Studio
This even is free and open to the public. Kindly RSVP
On view:
November 21st, 2024 — January 31st, 2025
EXTENDED through February, 9th, 2025
The gallery hours for this exhibition are
Monday through Friday, 2 PM — 6 PM.
detail of Weather of the Weather. Image courtesy the artist.
Penumbra Foundation is pleased to present Overclouded, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by artist Leah Beeferman.
Landscapes and weather defy our means of representation; it is impossible to capture either in its entirety. Fascinated by recording the visible effects of an invisible atmosphere on a landscape, Beeferman documents disparate landscapes with scientific observatories that collect data about those environments while gathering her own photographic information. Through multilayered photographic prints, 3D scenes, CNC and laser-etched aluminum panels, and videos, she explores the complexity and elusiveness of earthly phenomena and how they are represented as photographic and scientific images.
About the Artist:
Leah Beeferman works with digital image-making, video, text, and sound. Her work explores and abstracts the shifting relationships between measurement and uncertainty as they relate to landscape and weather at a variety of scales.
She has had solo exhibitions at Rawson Projects, New York; Sorbus, Helsinki; CO-OPt, Texas; and Arcade on Stadium, Utah. Recent two-person or group exhibitions include Helsinki Art Museum, Finland; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Fiskars Village Biennial, Finland; Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland; SOLU, Helsinki; The Anderson, Richmond. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Penumbra, New York; and Peeler Art Center, Indiana (both 2024).
Beeferman has participated in many residencies including LMCC Workspace, New York; The Arctic Circle, Svalbard; Tiputini Biodiversity Research Station, Ecuador; Climate Whirl/Hyytiälä Forest Research Station, Finland; ArsBioarctica, Finland; Mustarinda, Finland; Digital Painting Atelier, OCAD, Toronto; and Sirius, Ireland. Her work has been discussed in publications such as BOMB, Objektiv, Temporary Art Review, Art in Print, Rhizome, and ArtPulse. She has written artist texts for Contemporary Art Stavanger and Taupe Magazine. In 2022, Rooftop Press (Helsinki) published a written conversation between Beeferman and artist Tuukka Kaila: If you show me what you know, can I tell you what I see? In 2016 she published Triple Point, an artist book, with Lodret Vandret (Copenhagen).
Beeferman received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2010) and a BA from Brown University (2004) and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Finland (2016-17). Beeferman is now based in Providence, where she teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.
leahbeeferman.com
Overclouded was organized by Leah Beeferman and Lisa di Donato.
Interim Programs Director: Lisa di Donato.
Ackknowledgements
Penumbra’s Project Gallery is generously supported in part by the Joy of Giving Something.
Penumbra Foundation’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
About Penumbra Foundation
Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit organization that brings together the Art and Science of Photography through education, research, outreach, public and residency programs. Its goal is to be a comprehensive resource for photographers at any level, artists, students, professionals, historians, researchers, conservators and curators. Penumbra specializes in advancing the use of historic and alternative photographic technologies for contemporary image-making.
About the Project Gallery
The 300 square-foot Project Gallery offers emerging and mid-career artists a place to present new work. The exhibitions are developed in conjunction with Penumbra's editorial or educational programming.
Contact: Lisa di Donato | lisa@penumbrafoundation.org