Gallery Geranmayeh is pleased to present the new exhibition "twofold," featuring paintings, sculptures and wall works by Cat Balco and Rachel Beach. "twofold" invites unexpected spacial encounters between primitive and sophisticated forms.  Both artists insinuate gestural motifs through structural frameworks, provoking unusual and surprising unions, both tangible and suggestive.

Cat Balco's large-scale patterned wall paintings begin as small abstract paintings of forms and rhythms and are derived from loose observation of natural forms. Their simple geometric compositions connect them to ancient symbols of fertility, life, the sun, and growth. As she works through these paintings, forms gather together, repeat, and mirror each other, creating larger patterns. 

Cat Balco received her MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art in 2007, where she was the recipient of the Helen Winternitz Award in Painting and the Gloucester Landscape Painting Prize. She has been awarded residency fellowships through the Weir Farm Trust, the Albers Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Yale School of Art at Norfolk. Her paintings have been discussed in international publications including ArtInfo.com, The New York Times, and the London-based magazine Bon International. Recently, she has received two significant public art commissions: the first atartSPACE in New Haven, CT and the second at the new 360 State Street development also in New Haven. Her work is included in the White Columns registry and she is an Associate Fellow at Morse College at Yale University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Hartford Art School/University of Hartford.

Rachel Beach combines illusionistic painting and angular stacked forms in her architecturally inclined and expertly crafted sculptures. By playing with actual versus simulated shadow and tangible versus implied space, she constructs a balance of confusion and intrigue. Her painted sculptures transform flat planes into three-dimensions and combine minimalist thought and form with more diverse archeological and architectural influences. 

Rachel Beach is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Waterloo ON, Canada. She received an MFA from Yale University and BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Recent awards include a Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship, a residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, a YADDO artist residency and a Canada Council for the Arts grant. Her work has been exhibited at Blackston, Lennon Weinberg and Mixed Greens in New York City and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and PlugIn Institute of Contemporary Art in Canada. Reviews of her work have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Interview and C Magazine.