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Yancey Richardson Gallery is pleased to present Chiral Lines, an exhibition of drawings by Rachel Perry Welty and the artistʼs fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Fabricated from the collection of every writing instrument in her home, this group of ambidextrous two-panel drawings utilizes a set of self-imposed rules and the simplest of gestures: the line.

From the Greek word for hand, “kheir”, chirality requires an object to be distinguishable from its mirror image. Human hands are the most universally recognized example of chirality, although it is impossible for every feature of either …