Fallow
Sydney Kleinrock, Julia Policastro, Ariel Posh, Emily Stroud, and Amy Renee Webb
September 19th - October 31st, 2025
907 Christian Street, Philadelphia PA 19147
Opening Reception: Friday, September 19th, 2025 from 7-10PM
Blah Blah Gallery is pleased to present Fallow, a group exhibition featuring the work of Sydney Kleinrock, Julia Policastro, Ariel Posh, Emily Stroud, and Amy Renee Webb. The exhibition brings together five artists whose practices explore the textures of place, its atmospheres, landscapes, and lived rhythms through painting and mixed media. Collectively, their work considers how environments shape memory, identity, and imagination, offering a moody and immersive reflection on what it means to be formed by a region, a culture, or a way of life.
Anchored by a shared palette of deep greens, dark hues, and earthen tones, Fallow presents color as a connective thread across varied practices. Green emerges as foliage, shadow, fabric, and skin, at once a symbol of vitality and decay, intimacy and unease. These tones root the works in natural terrain, while also pointing toward psychological landscapes, spaces where beauty and darkness coexist.
Julia Policastro constructs cinematic paintings that hover between dream and memory, muted greens and shadowed thresholds drawing viewers into scenes at once familiar and unsettling. Ariel Posh creates vibrant figurative paintings filled with folkloric and surreal motifs, combining humor and unease to reframe cultural symbols and imagery with play and strangeness. Sydney Kleinrock merges quilting, painting, and sculptural materials like steel and LED into layered surfaces that feel bodily and architectural, stitched seams and dark palettes suggesting both rupture and repair. Emily Stroud paints outdoor scenes where memory and lived experience overlap, her landscapes saturated with synthetic greens and bruised tones that reflect the contradictions of rural environments, simultaneously comforting and estranging. Amy Renee Webb creates figurative oil paintings rooted in rural traditions and visual histories, her melancholic palette weaving together religion, inheritance, and belonging with the quiet tensions of place.
Together, the artists of Fallow present work that is deeply rooted in place and memory, yet expansive in scope. Through landscape, folklore, craft, and narrative, their practices reveal how environments leave lasting imprints, shaping not only how we see the world, but how we carry it within ourselves.