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 belligerent 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.”
