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Published: Feb 6, 2007

Alexis Granwell: Navigating the Ecstasy
Runs through Feb. 10, Tower Gallery, 969 N. Second St., 215-253-9874

In exploring highly emotional moments, Granwell abstractly maps human psychology through drawing, printmaking and installation. Although the connection to psychology may sometimes be elusive, Granwell's works achieve their own aesthetic worth. They resemble graphs, diagrams and cells — the stuff of textbooks — somehow taken apart and altered into things beautiful (pictured).

Barbara Duval: New Work
Runs through Feb. 10, Print Center, 1614 Latimer St., 215-735-6090

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In Duval's prints, human figures walk through illuminated space while etched lines of darkness creep toward the light. Duval uses a printing technique called chine-collé, which involves bonding standard printing paper with a more delicate tissue to allow details to surface. Her figures carry the bleak impression of industrial workers in a Dickens novel — shoulders hunched, feet dragging, shadows lengthening. Their isolation in the darkness is chilling.

Lanny Bergner
Runs through Feb. 13, Snyderman Gallery, 303 Cherry St., 215-238-9576

Enter this fiber exhibit and you'll think you've entered a microscopic world magnified. Bergner creates organic forms with metal screening, each characterized by wire tendrils on the end, making them seem ready to squirm down from the strings that suspend them. His other works — wire screens formed into baskets, towers and hanging grids — mesmerize, their geometric intricacy reflecting the wonder of nature's patterns.

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