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Ricky Allman + Zachary Royer Scholz February 8 - March 9, 2008 Opening Reception, Friday, February 8, 6-8PM Artist Talks with Zach + Christine (Project Space), Saturday, March 8, 4PM Swarm Gallery is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Kansas City-based painter Ricky Allman and Berkeley-based artist Zachary Royer Scholz. Raised Mormon, Ricky Allman was taught to prepare for the Apocalypse - a complete and final destruction of the world. Sure he wouldn't live to see adulthood, he aligned with dystopian visions of his future. In his 20s, he moved from Utah's protective mountain landscape to the city of Boston, where he saw the skyscrapers vulnerable to destruction, ready to crash down with the slightest provocation. The city became an apocalyptic metaphor for his life. He began to study the way architecture interacts and overlaps with nature, and how it dominates or is dominated by its surroundings. Ricky explores architectural spaces in his work to play out his fascinations and fears, utopia and dystopia, and issues of faith and doubt. Zachary Royer Scholz is a sculptor and conceptual artist who works collaboratively with his materials, manipulating objects to shift their boundaries of significance. Like paired artist Ricky Allman, Zachary also uses architectural spaces to alter and create new meaning. As objects tend to renew themselves in different contexts, Zachary leverages unexpected possibilities for unforeseeable ends. Zachary Royer Scholz, Situation 91207 (wall, crack, stick, sidewalk) (2007), UltraChromeK3 Giclee print, 23.5" x 31.5" Ricky Allman, Different Doom, Happier Children (2007), Acrylic, Ink on Canvas, 48" x 36" Works available PROJECT SPACE \| Installation Christine Wong Yap Dark Into Light Dark into Light is a mixed media installation of lights. It is accompanied by a limited-edition artist's book featuring a glow-in-the-dark screen printed cover.

Ricky Allman + Zachary Royer Scholz
February 8 - March 9, 2008

Opening Reception, Friday, February 8, 6-8PM
Artist Talks with Zach + Christine (Project Space), Saturday, March 8, 4PM

Swarm Gallery is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Kansas City-based painter Ricky Allman and Berkeley-based artist Zachary Royer Scholz.

Raised Mormon, Ricky Allman was taught to prepare for the Apocalypse - a complete and final destruction of the world. Sure he wouldn't live to see adulthood, he aligned with dystopian visions of his future. In his 20s, he moved from Utah's protective mountain landscape to the city of Boston, where he saw the skyscrapers vulnerable to destruction, ready to crash down with the slightest provocation. The city became an apocalyptic metaphor for his life. He began to study the way architecture interacts and overlaps with nature, and how it dominates or is dominated by its surroundings. Ricky explores architectural spaces in his work to play out his fascinations and fears, utopia and dystopia, and issues of faith and doubt.

Zachary Royer Scholz is a sculptor and conceptual artist who works collaboratively with his materials, manipulating objects to shift their boundaries of significance. Like paired artist Ricky Allman, Zachary also uses architectural spaces to alter and create new meaning. As objects tend to renew themselves in different contexts, Zachary leverages unexpected possibilities for unforeseeable ends.

Zachary Royer Scholz, Situation 91207 (wall, crack, stick, sidewalk) (2007), UltraChromeK3 Giclee print, 23.5" x 31.5"

Ricky Allman, Different Doom, Happier Children (2007), Acrylic, Ink on Canvas, 48" x 36"

Works available

PROJECT SPACE | Installation

Christine Wong Yap
Dark Into Light

Dark into Light is a mixed media installation of lights. It is accompanied by a limited-edition artist's book featuring a glow-in-the-dark screen printed cover.