PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) presents Warp Trance, a new project by Senga Nengudi on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' Morris Gallery. Nengudi, an artist-in-residence at FWM, collaborated with the Workshop and award-winning composer Butch Morris to create an installation that employs a 4-channel video projection of rhythmic sounds and images derived from industrial weaving mills to evoke ritual and trance. Senga Nengudi: Warp Trance opens on Friday, 8 June with an artist lecture at 6 p.m. and a reception from 5:30 - 8 p.m. The exhibition is on view through 26 August 2007 at the Pennsylvania Academy.

Senga Nengudi (b. 1943) was at the forefront of the African-American avant-garde in New York and LA in the 1970s and 80s and has had solo exhibitions at various locations including Thomas Erben Gallery, New York. Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including the 54th Carnegie International 2004-2005, Carnegie Museum of Art (2004). In 2005, Nengudi received both the "Anonymous Was a Woman" Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Nengudi's work is featured this spring and early summer at LA MOCA in the traveling group exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007); the next venue is P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City. Nengudi was born in Chicago and currently lives and works in Colorado. She received a B.A. in art and dance and a M.A. in sculpture from California State University in Los Angeles, CA.