The artists in this exhibition bring their own perspectives on our relationship to nature. Michael Cutlip creates abstract landscapes of lines, markings, brush strokes, spray paint blots, and graphite smudges. The artist works intuitively, as he feels a planned painting is a failed painting. Process is essential to Cutlip's works on panel - during which time his painting is free to wander.

Gage Opdenbrouw’s paintings are a part of a couple of distinct yet interrelated bodies of work. His landscape paintings, often painted from memory or the imagination, explore color and the vastness of space. His ongoing "Strangers" series began as a grid of blurred portraits of unrecognizable figures, and has grown into an exploration of identity and the human spirit, often incorporating landscape imagery as well.

Mark Baugh-Sasaki is a native San Francisco artist who explores the relationship between land (human environment), and industry (humanity's indelible mark upon it). Using wood, steel and cast metal, Baugh-Saski juxtaposes organic and industrial materials. The artist casts no judgment about this relationship being a "good" or "bad" thing nor does he attempt to dictate what should or what is to be; simply just what is.

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In PROJECT SPACE - LINDA BRAZ will turn Swarm’s Project Space walls into a loom to meticulously weave a grid-like web environment. Braz uses natural silk fiber, a material she describes as strong and flexible yet fragile and delicate. Once her web is woven, Braz will burn the material in spots to watch it randomly deconstruct, the results of which will imbue the space with a vulnerable presence. What emerges from this process is a visual metaphor for remnants of things passed, letting go, and moving on. Conceptually related sketches will accompany the installation.