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"SONG 3: Great Dust Storm" by Melinda Steffy, Acrylic on wood, 2018, 30 x 24 x 2"
"Permutation on Light and Space 11" by Lynn Dunham, Archival pigment print, 2025, 32 x 32"
"Blue Zebra" by Scott Troxel, Spray acrylic on poplar with matte clearcoat, 2023, 14 x 6 x 2.25"
" Laugh Out Loud" by Diane Marimow, Ceramic, 2023, 23 x 19 x 2"
" Black and Tan" by Kurt Herrmann, Acrylic on Canvas, 2023, 48 x 48"
" Squirm" by Philip C. Hart, Copper, aluminum, wire, fishing line, paint, 2025, 10 x 17"
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Park Towne Place

From Abstract Expressionism to Neoplasticism, artists have used formal elements such as line, shape, and color to express universal truths and depict pure harmony. In Folding Space, six artists delve into a world of bold, vibrant colors, crisp lines, contrasting shapes, and geometric patterns to narrate stories of space and time. By stripping away extraneous elements and creating balance, the works in Folding Space reach into the viewer's subconscious, leaving a direct and lasting impact on human emotion and the psyche.

Rhythm, repetition, and nature are key themes in Folding Space. Melinda Steffy draws directly from music, creating a visual language in her series Songs. Lynn Dunham blurs the lines between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, achieving an equilibrium of light and color. At the same time, Philip Hart achieves literal balance in his delicate mobiles, which explore the fragility and resilience of consciousness. Diane Marimow and Kurt Herrmann find inspiration in nature—Herrmann in his Color Bombs series and Marimow in her organic clay sculptures and wall reliefs. Through reduction, they find universality and timelessness. Similarly, Scott Troxel’s pieces represent the passage of time—past, present, and future—through the interplay of organic and inorganic mediums.

Whether exploring the nature of the universe, capturing narratives through color and form, or highlighting the connections between physical environments and intangible experiences, Folding Space invites the viewer on a journey through the emotional power of color.

Featuring Artist: Melinda Steffy, Lynn Dunham, Philip Hart, Diane Marimow, Kurt Herrmann, & Scott Troxel

Please contact programming@inliquid.org to schedule viewing appointments.

About the Artists:

"Floe 2" by Philip C. Hart

Philip C. Hart
b. Portland, OR

Philip C. Hart majored in Philosophy at Haverford College and later studied Architecture at Boston Architectural College. He worked for firms in Boston before moving to Maine in 1986. In Maine, his focus was on designing public schools until he retired in 2010. Since then, he has engaged in a process of discovery through mobiles. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been exhibited across Philadelphia in galleries such as HOT Bed and the Cosmopolitan Club, as well as in Santa Fe, NM, in the Phil Space Gallery.

Artist Statement:

“My work is based in an exploration of pattern recognition, which is fundamental to language, intelligence, and memory. The composition of my mobiles is based on form, order, and balance. I am concerned with the fragility, malleability, and resilience of consciousness. In the vocabulary of this work, motion is as much a subject of it as is its composition. My mobiles are constructed with simple materials: wire, sheet metal, and fishing line”.

"Mossland" by Kurt Herrmann

Kurt Herrmann
b. Lock Haven, PA

Bio:

Kurt Herrmann is a painter from the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania who does both figurative and abstract work, but above all is a colourist at heart. Two of his recent shows were featured in Time Out Chicago and the Philadelphia Inquirer, with recent shows in Tasmania (Penny Contemporary), New Orleans (Octavia Gallery), Auckland (12 Gallery), Philadelphia (James Oliver Gallery), and Charlotte (Sozo Gallery). His work is in prominent collections across the US, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including Capitol One Corporate Headquarters (Wilmington, DE), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY), and Temple University (Philadelphia, PA). Recent commissions include large work for Hotel Del Coronado (San Diego, CA) and a line of beer labels for Elk Creek Café + Aleworks (Millheim, PA). Although his exhibition schedule is increasingly international, Herrmann’s rural Pennsylvania roots continue to influence his work. “I’m very aware of the fact that even if a painting was initially inspired by something exotic or an extremely personal event on the other side of the planet, all my work is filtered through my studio in the hills of Appalachia,” he explains. “The colours, silence, space, seasons, landscape, even the rednecks impact everything I make. It’s inescapable.”

Color Bombs Statement:

“I want the Color Bombs to radiate across the room but to also whisper quietly beside you. I want big sound and silence. Many of my shapes, forms and colors have been extracted from the mountains of Pennsylvania where I live and work, but I also sample bits and pieces of memories and places I’ve never been. There are trunks of trees, winter skies, deer legs, the pink from a summer watermelon and Greek islands I’ve always wanted to see – these are some of the sparks that start a painting, but they are not the whole story. The initial inspiration is simply a launch pad to shoot a rocket off into the unknown. Color does not need to represent anything other than itself. It is universal, l yet nothing is more personal. And that’s how I present these paintings. I’m distilling something that struck me, but the interpretations and feelings others come away with are infinite”.

"Distracting" by Diane Marrimow

Diane Marimow
b. Philadelphia, PA

Diane Marimow is currently a ceramic artist in Philadelphia. Until the pandemic, she was an educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for 13 years. She received a graduate degree in Art from Tyler School of Art and taught art to children and young adults in public and independent schools on the East Coast for more than 30 years. Diane has exhibited her ceramic sculptures and wall pieces in galleries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida, and Arizona.  Her sculptures reside in private collections throughout the U.S.- including one purchased by the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. Diane Marimow’s work is included in the Park Towne Place Art Collection.

Statement:

“My latest work—totems, sculptures, and wall reliefs—is inspired by specific memories, both emotional and physical. For instance, the ceramic marine mollusks remind me of my trips to the beach. My newest totems reflect my interest in exploring the city's architecture, construction, and traffic patterns. My abstract clay sculpture and wallscapes also show how I've studied movement as the clay moves, twist and rolls- flowing in space. These organic forms are made from slab-constructed and extruded coils of clay, which have been draped over molds. The molds are often made with recycled materials like styrofoam, plastic lids and tennis balls. The glazed surfaces reflect the colors, textures, and patterns found in nature and man-made forms. These 3-D organic sculptures and wall reliefs represent my positive perspective on life. Viewers have an opportunity to derive their own personal interpretation—whether my art evokes images that are figurative, natural, or non-objective. “

"Permutation" by Lyn Duhman

Lyn Duhman
b. Philadelphia, PA

The common thread in Dunham’s work is a conceptual approach, often tied to her education and preoccupation with light, community, acceptance, and balance. She creates in a space that blurs the lines between photography, painting, and sculpture. Dunham studied graphic design and illustration at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY (1976–1980), influenced by Paul Rand, Milton Glaser, and the Bauhaus movement’s integration of craft, design, and fine arts. After graduating, she worked in graphic design until 1996, when she launched Fine Art Flowers, a floral and event design business. She relocated to the Hamptons in 2004, working briefly with major event florists. There, she transformed an unused greenhouse into a painting studio. In 2005, Dunham took a position as a gallery assistant to Mark Borghi in Bridgehampton, where modern artists inspired her. While working at the gallery, she also curated for an art rental firm, selling works to collectors, designers, and the film and television industry. She rented artwork for set decoration and to offices in NY and PA. Dunham has since returned to NJ, focusing on photo-based work that defies traditional classification as photography or printmaking.


Lynn Dunham’s work is included in the Park Towne Place Art Collection. 

Statement: “Permutations on Light and Space” (an ongoing series)

“Permutations on Light and Space series began using other people’s pictures accumulated from web exploration in researching Light and Space artists. I have interpreted the pictures from others’ perspectives that have captured their unique moments immersed in Light and Space experiential, atmospheric installations of Dan Flavin, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Larry Bell, Olafur Eliasson. The interpretations are complete reinventions of said gathered images. They have led the way to an archive of DeJa’Vu hallucinations in which someone else’s experience has become my own. Such images have initiated the exploration of imaginary lighting and spaces, so this series continues to evolve. Two-dimensional digital formation of manufactured light and space creations make up contrived experiences in light and space scenarios which are derived from multiple exposures related to meditation on the subject”.

"Song 1" by Melinda Steffy

Melinda Steffy
b. New York, NY

Melinda Steffy (she/her) centers her creative practice around information and translation — looking at various ways humans communicate and pass along information over time. She develops her own systems for converting music or spoken language into abstract geometric artworks, encoding the data in color and shape. Her artwork has been exhibited at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia & New York), Moore College of Art & Design, Woodmere Art Museum, InLiquid, Philadelphia City Hall, 20*20 House, Rowan University, Villanova University, Finlandia University, and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, among many others. She was commissioned by Eastern Mennonite University to create 100 paintings based on a Mennonite hymn in honor of their Centennial, by Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church to create a series of works based on J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and by Manheim Township Middle School to create a large-scale artwork based on their school song. Melinda currently serves as Co-Executive Director of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia and runs her own consulting practice, Concentric Strategy.

Statement:

“My visual art practice centers around information, communication, and translation — in particular the languages of music and of geometric abstraction. I have developed my own translation system that converts musical notes to colors, and plots rhythms across a grid. The system combines elements of music theory and color theory to create a new visual language.

The RUINATION DAY series lives at the intersection of story, song, and visuals. It was inspired by folk and blues songs that serve as oral history for tragic events that happened on the date April 14, including Lincoln’s assassination, the Titanic sinking, and the Black Sunday dust storm. I deconstructed and rebuilt four songs (19th century folk ballad “Booth Killed Lincoln,” “God Moves on the Water” by Blind Willie Johnson, “The Great Dust Storm” by Woody Guthrie, and “Ruination Day, Part II” by Gillian Welch) into a series of abstract paintings and drawings. The time-based structure of the music now exists in simultaneous color pattern. Nuance is captured through color and form. RUINATION DAY speaks to the architecture of information and storytelling: repetition, characters, keywords, emotions. The narrative is no longer linear. It is the echo of a tune you heard once that still rings in your ears”. 

Scott Troxel
b. Landsdale, PA

"EGG" by Scott Troxel

Scott Troxel is an award-winning mixed-media artist specializing in wood and metal wall sculpture and freestanding sculpture. He has exhibited at numerous fairs and exhibitions across the United States, including The Other Art Fair New York, DIAF South Korea, Texas Contemporary, SCOPE Miami, SOFA Chicago, LA Art Fair, and Art Wynwood.

His works are held in corporate, hotel, and private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America and can be seen in iconic buildings like The Hotel Del Coronado and The Shard London. His work has been commissioned by Georgia Power, Live! Casino, The Palms Singapore, Capitol One, Northrup Grumman, Price Waterhouse Cooper, and The Four Seasons Vail.

Scott was an industrial designer, product developer, graphic artist, and brand manager before becoming a full-time artist in his early 40s. His background in commercial products, graphics, design, and aesthetics mirrors similar artists like Andy Warhol, who honed their artistic skills through real-world applications prior to shifting into the fine arts. In addition to Troxel Art Projects, Scott is represented by galleries in the USA, Europe and Asia.

Statement -

“I predominately work with wood as my base medium, due to its strength, dimension and organic nature.  The inherent texture of wood combined with paint and other man-made materials allow me to explore the concepts of old and young, worn versus new, organic versus man-made and the past versus the present and future.  I look to capture a sense of time in my work and often combine the feeling of different eras within a single piece.  I see this as a direct parallel with human life, as we too grow older and interact with other generations, both younger and older.

 I am also particularly interested in items that were considered technologically or aesthetically advanced, only to be passed on by the consistency and tenacity of time. For example, an airplane boneyard where cutting-edge fighter jets from the 60’s sit in forgotten decay.  They are still beautiful to look at from a design standpoint, even though these are no longer “modern” in the sense that time and technology has passed them by.

 I particularly inspired by mid-century modernism, where wood and organic shapes were combined with other materials to suggest a type of futurism, though now they are considered vintage. Time has passed on but these pieces remain in that context of when they were designed.  I want my work feel this way, somewhat nostalgic, aged and organic with the feeling that it could also be from a future time”. 

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