Audrey Goldstein | Turning Spells & Dana Clancy | Cuttings

in the SHED @ 18 Arlington Street . Annisquam, Gloucester — behind the main house

August 9 - 28 . 2025

Opening Receptions:

Saturday August 9 . 2-4pm

Saturday August 16 . 6-9pm

About the Exhibition:

Building upon mutual artistic concerns, Audrey Goldstein’s suspended sculptures from her Ephemeral Bodies series and Dana Clancy’s new series of mylar drawings and cut-outs, Cuttings, will activate the space in and around the SHED. Unbound by gravity, Goldstein’s sculptural lines weave together disparate materials such as silk, wood, wool and glass fragments. As dimensional drawings, the works move through space like undulating ouroboros– from thick to thin, opaque to translucent, hollow to dense. They echo hovering storm systems and teetering architectures, vascular circulation in the body and mycorrhizal networks beneath the ground. 

Dana Clancy’s mylar silhouettes reintroduce imagery of cut flowers and open books into the garden landscape. These site interventions reframe and reflect their surroundings, playing the light to spark new perceptions of our learned relationships to nature. Clancy will also introduce video activations during the evening reception on August 16th.

Turning Spells embraces the magic of temporary placemaking as an act of empathy, a call and response to a breathing landscape and its layered histories. The show opens the door to chance, a moment to be taken around–surrounded by–remnants of the past and the present all ringing out at different frequencies. It is an invitation for curiosity to become an inner and outer guide, an exploration of physical and ephemeral shelters, a mode of storytelling in which truth-bearing cycles intersect with pathways of invention.

Together, Goldstein and Clancy expand ongoing explorations in spatial movement, changing environments, and points of view while creating an unexpected interplay of forms, shape, light and shadow that evoke larger animating forces of both nature and fate.

— Stace Brandt, Curator