Swarm apologizes for having such a poorly updated blog. This is, afterall, our link for event pics etc. But we have good excuses! Like, we’re busy preparing for our next 12 exhibits, an art fair in Miami, a relocation, exciting consulting projects with architects and cool buildings…and that’s only the top.

Stay tuned. We’ll pay attention to our blog soon.

Love,
Swarm

May 24 – June 22, 2008

Opening Reception Friday, May 23rd

Chris Loomis’ benches meander through the main room of the gallery, with Jeff Eisenberg’s drawings on the walls.

Another piece by Loomis.

And another.

Jeff Eisenberg’s Towers.

Eisenberg’s Vault.

John Casey’s work in the project space.

Swarm went to Chicago for the week of April 24-28.

Kathy Aoki’s Battle of Kawaii

Aoki installing her piece.

Mayumi Hamanaka’s installation (left) Taro Hattori’s Beaute Brute (right)

We were impressed with the work at NEXT, including Leo Stoetzel’s VW Bus (right).

Works from the piece Busted! by Kuhl and Leighton, represented by Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art,  made solely out of acrylic tape.

Reception Friday April 18, 2008

Kevin Smith’s works

Sarah Smith’s Installation

Reception March 20, 2008

Performance by Marcus Shelby Quartet

Faye Carol

The place was packed!

Zach’s conceptual constructions

Ricky on the wall

A couple of Ricky Allman’s works on paper

Light installation by Christine

Artist’s reception on Friday, Feb 8. The golden triangle: Zach in the background left, Christine in the foreground, and Ricky (facing Zach), in the background right

Swarm Gallery went to Miami for its second art fair (ever, the first in FL)…

We had our work cut out for us.

The “we”: Anuradha Vikram, Benedict Cressy and Svea Lin Vezzone (this was actually taken AFTER the event; we all look a bit harried, fried and just plain burned out…)

This is a shot of our room — it had the best light in the joint, but it was tucked away in the corner of the second floor; not so happy about that. Here’s what we did with it… :

Entrance with Jake Watling’s work.

Casey Jex Smith, Jeff Eisenberg, Andy Junge, John Casey, Andy Vogt, Kathy Aoki on far wall, chair by Gregg Fleishman

…Martha Sue Harris, Erik Friedman, more Casey Jex Smith…

…Tia Factor…

…Laura Ball, Eileen Starr Moderbacher…

That’s artist Yvette Molina (fantastic artist…)

Andy Junge’s “American Detritus” found object box

Then….

Ahhhhhhh….Our day off

Anu, Yvette, Ben, artist Kate, Svea and Kimberly (of Johansson Projects)

All of the above, minus Ben Cressy, add Adam Hatch (Lobot)

If the cold and gray winter edge is getting to me, I just look at this…

Swarm is proud to host the exhibition “We’re All in This Together,” co-curated by Svea Lin Vezzone (Swarm Director) and Charles Guice (of CG Contemporary), with featured artists Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas and N. Dash.

(left) Carrie Mae Weems “Africa Series, Shape of Things: Female and Male”; (right) Hank Willis Thomas’ “Jordan and Johnny Walker” (from the series Branded)

Carrie Mae Weems

(left) Work from Unbranded series by Hank Willis Thomas; (right) “Ghosts of Our Land” by N. Dash

Detail of installation in Project Space, by N. Dash

Artists Dash and Hank Willis Thomas at the reception

lauren woods and Cicely Sweed

Sneak preview: We’ve never done THIS before…..

(above) The gallery at 3:40PM. (Below) The gallery at 5:35PM

Little Show reception, images courtesy of John Casey (bunnywax.com)

Here are some of the works that were included in the show (some still available!):

Kathy Aoki

Nathaniel Parsons

Taro Hattori

Chris Pew

Michele Pred

James Gayles

R. Reynolds

Reuben Rude

Laurel Roth

Hank Willis Thomas

Andrew Schoultz

Jeff Eisenberg

Eileen Starr Moderbacher

Joshua Hagler

The SF collective, Quorum (www.quorum-sf.org), had their reception at Swarm on Thursday. Members of the collective include SUSANNAH BETTAG, JORDAN ESSOE, RODNEY EWING, RAMAN FREY, RAYMOND HAYWOOD, ANDY DIAZ HOPE, ANDREW JUNGE, PAUL MADONNA, TREVOR PAGLEN, PRABA PILAR, TANIA KETENJIAN, MICHELE PRED, LAUREL ROTH, DOUGLAS SCHNEIDER, HARRY SITER, and Swarm Gallery owner SVEA LIN VEZZONE.

13 of the members were in the exhibit.

Linguists define “code-switching” as an alternation between two or more languages within a single conversation between people who have one or more language in common. What this means for most of us is that we participate in, and practice a type of verbal syntactic shape-shifting, frequently changing terms of speech and expression to accommodate the fluctuating needs of discourse within different social and cultural interactions. Often an unconscious act, code-switching is used for many purposes, including protection, identification, recognition, approval, and control.

With this exhibition, Quorum artists address these aspects of code-switching, exploring when and where the switch occurs and why the switch happens.

Code Switching Reception

Lovely Tania Ketenjian and Laurel Roth, right

Decoding Michele Pred’s semacode piece

Rodney Ewing, holding child

Michele Pred talking with Praba Pilar

Praba (left) and friends

Hank Thomas (right) and friend

Trevor Paglen and Raman Frey (right)

Rodney’s installation “Days and Occasions”