[re]verb

Rachel Hayden, Lauren Pakradooni, and Kelli Creutzinger

September 6 - October 2, 2024
907 Christian Street, Philadelphia PA 19147

Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2024

Blah Blah presents [re]verb, bringing together the work of Rachel Hayden, Lauren Pakradooni, and Kelli Creutzinger, whose practices converge in their exploration of memory and the natural world through balance and repetition. [re]verb confronts the tensions between stability and volatility, the concrete and the abstract, and the permanent and the ephemeral.

Rachel Hayden’s playful paintings seek order in chaos by piecing together a handful of objects into balanced and symmetrical compositions. She creates full yet uncluttered canvases where figures float harmoniously in midair without touching. By repeatedly depicting different iterations of natural subjects and motifs, taken from the margins of her middle school notebooks, Hayden grapples with hard-to-describe human feelings and their mysterious origins. 

Similarly inspired by the organized entropy of our environment, Lauren Pakradooni examines the relationship between the organic and the built world, drawing from the repetition found in both natural forms and architectural structures. Integrating printmaking techniques into sculptural practice, Pakradooni’s work emphasizes the slippage of form between the physical vestiges of ruins and fantastical computer-generated imagery. Diverse shapes and recurring patterns serve as visual cues to the viewer for navigating her work connected in the space. 

Lastly, Kelli Creutzinger, through the use of photography, printmaking, and sculpture, creates work that calls attention to the ideas of memory and impermanence. She explores the notion of keepsake by using motifs of childhood paired with deconstructed photographic imagery allusive to her lived experience. Creutzinger’s interdisciplinary practice melds analog photography with digital manipulation and manual processes, ultimately resulting in deeply personal work with a cryptic backstory.