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GEORGIA JUNE GOLDBERG: Recent Work May 10 - 24, 2007 Georgia June Goldberg, "Night Snow", 2006 Swarm Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Georgia June Goldberg. Georgia began her most recent series with large oil paintings and drawings, studying the forms and compositions resulting from catastrophic current events. The series evolved from documenting punctuated moments of catastrophe to the beauty of moments of transition and creation. Her two-dimensional works have developed into installations and two-dimensional pieces with three-dimensional elements. Georgia uses line, light, shadow and layering of transparent materials. The transparent surfaces are covered with drawings of small shapes and fragments of once complete forms. The linear forms are fragile and see-through. These elements are in transition from one state to another; the drawings capture them in a moment of suspension. The lines are often pure white- drawn with ink, scored, made from wire, and sewn. Shadows on the wall behind create even more lines. The ground materials are Plexiglas, wax, paper, fabric, board and acetate and are lit so as to create shadows and translucency. In this gallery installation several elements are accounted for: Space, suspension, time, line, and light. Space allows objects to freely transmute and fly into new compositions. Suspension allows us to see relationships between objects and the spaces in which they move. Line is our primary mark, extending infinitely into space, and drawing transparent forms when it closes upon itself. Light casts shadows and projects reflections, thus creating further complexity. A catalogue for the exhibition is available, with essays by Glen Helfand, Jack Rasmussen and Anne Umland. See more of Georgia's work on the Swarm Gallery artist roster here. Please inquire with gallery for detailed information on works In PROJECT SPACE LYDIA NAKASHIMA DEGARROD \| Feeding Our Souls Through Birds at Lake Merritt May 12 - June 10, 2007 Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, a visual artist and cultural anthropologist, will have a video installation based on observations and interviews with a group of men and women who regularly feed birds at Lake Merritt in Oakland. She has found that for this community of bird feeders, the act of feeding birds becomes an arena in which to inscribe a diverse set of feelings about their relationship to other species, and also about their own lives. For some it is place to express their feelings for their native homeland where physical boundaries between people and animals were almost non-existent. For others, feeding the birds brings them back to the last time they nurtured their now grown children. For others, its a way of fighting loneliness. For others it is a way of communicating with a form of nature that they see as disappearing. And for others, the flight of the birds represents their own near departure from life. This project which combines both ethnographic research and visual art is being made with the collaboration of the Wildlife Refuge at Lake Merritt led by naturalist Stephanie Benavidez. Lydia Nakashima Degarrod has conducted several interdisciplinary projects which combined both cultural anthropology and visual art. Currently, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod is working on map project which will be conducted as Artist in Residence at the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of Arts in 2007-2008.

GEORGIA JUNE GOLDBERG: Recent Work

May 10 - 24, 2007

Georgia June Goldberg, "Night Snow", 2006

Swarm Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Georgia June Goldberg.

Georgia began her most recent series with large oil paintings and drawings, studying the forms and compositions resulting from catastrophic current events. The series evolved from documenting punctuated moments of catastrophe to the beauty of moments of transition and creation. Her two-dimensional works have developed into installations and two-dimensional pieces with three-dimensional elements.

Georgia uses line, light, shadow and layering of transparent materials. The transparent surfaces are covered with drawings of small shapes and fragments of once complete forms. The linear forms are fragile and see-through. These elements are in transition from one state to another; the drawings capture them in a moment of suspension. The lines are often pure white- drawn with ink, scored, made from wire, and sewn. Shadows on the wall behind create even more lines. The ground materials are Plexiglas, wax, paper, fabric, board and acetate and are lit so as to create shadows and translucency.

In this gallery installation several elements are accounted for: Space, suspension, time, line, and light. Space allows objects to freely transmute and fly into new compositions. Suspension allows us to see relationships between objects and the spaces in which they move. Line is our primary mark, extending infinitely into space, and drawing transparent forms when it closes upon itself. Light casts shadows and projects reflections, thus creating further complexity.

A catalogue for the exhibition is available, with essays by Glen Helfand, Jack Rasmussen and Anne Umland.

See more of Georgia's work on the Swarm Gallery artist roster here.

Please inquire with gallery for detailed information on works

In PROJECT SPACE

LYDIA NAKASHIMA DEGARROD | Feeding Our Souls Through Birds at Lake Merritt

May 12 - June 10, 2007

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, a visual artist and cultural anthropologist, will have a video installation based on observations and interviews with a group of men and women who regularly feed birds at Lake Merritt in Oakland. She has found that for this community of bird feeders, the act of feeding birds becomes an arena in which to inscribe a diverse set of feelings about their relationship to other species, and also about their own lives. For some it is place to express their feelings for their native homeland where physical boundaries between people and animals were almost non-existent. For others, feeding the birds brings them back to the last time they nurtured their now grown children. For others, its a way of fighting loneliness. For others it is a way of communicating with a form of nature that they see as disappearing. And for others, the flight of the birds represents their own near departure from life. This project which combines both ethnographic research and visual art is being made with the collaboration of the Wildlife Refuge at Lake Merritt led by naturalist Stephanie Benavidez.

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod has conducted several interdisciplinary projects which combined both cultural anthropology and visual art. Currently, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod is working on map project which will be conducted as Artist in Residence at the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of Arts in 2007-2008.