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OTHERWISE NATURE New Works on Paper by Mariana Garibay Elise Morris Myong Stebbins January 6 - February 11, 2007 Reception for the Artists: Friday, January 12, 2007 6-9PM w/ DJs The Bad Future Please join us in welcoming Oakland's new mayor, RON DELLUMS. He will be attending as part of his inaugural week activities. Let's show him Oakland's unique art scene! (from left to right) Elise Morris, Myong Stebbins, Mariana Garibay (details of works) Swarm Gallery presents Otherwise Nature, an exhibition of works on paper by California artists Mariana Garibay, Elise Morris, and Myong Stebbins. Each artist uniquely explores biomorphic forms, patterns of decay and emerging new growth. Mariana Garibay, a Mexico-born artist, surveys a fantasy landscape where intricately detailed subjects inhabit dream-like environments. Garibay's work reveals her savvy design aesthetic as well as her interest in organic shapes and biological flights of imagination. Elise Morris creates drawings based on the physical world, while imagining an alternative nature. She discovers in her abstract works that there is beauty in entropy, in the patterns of slow growth, and in the details that too often remain unnoticed. Myong Stebbins' paintings stem from her interest in distilling experience down to simple organic elements. Like Garibay, her imagery is dream-like, unfolding without preconception, left to chance, striving to balance narrative with abstraction. Please inquire with gallery for detailed information on works In PROJECT SPACE - Jessica Serran \| Project Truth Collection and Reflection This heady installation explores Oakland as a place through the subjective truths of its people. After collecting "truths" of Oakland residents in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland, the artist painted a mural on the walls of the Project Space gallery mapping out and responding to what she saw + heard. A filing cabinet sits in the space, where gallery visitors can read what Oakland residents wrote in response to the question, "What is true for you?"

OTHERWISE NATURE

New Works on Paper by

Mariana Garibay
Elise Morris
Myong Stebbins

January 6 - February 11, 2007

Reception for the Artists: Friday, January 12, 2007 6-9PM

w/ DJs The Bad Future

Please join us in welcoming Oakland's new mayor, RON DELLUMS. He will be attending as part of his inaugural week activities. Let's show him Oakland's unique art scene!

(from left to right) Elise Morris, Myong Stebbins, Mariana Garibay (details of works)

Swarm Gallery presents Otherwise Nature, an exhibition of works on paper by California artists Mariana Garibay, Elise Morris, and Myong Stebbins. Each artist uniquely explores biomorphic forms, patterns of decay and emerging new growth.

Mariana Garibay, a Mexico-born artist, surveys a fantasy landscape where intricately detailed subjects inhabit dream-like environments. Garibay's work reveals her savvy design aesthetic as well as her interest in organic shapes and biological flights of imagination.

Elise Morris creates drawings based on the physical world, while imagining an alternative nature. She discovers in her abstract works that there is beauty in entropy, in the patterns of slow growth, and in the details that too often remain unnoticed.

Myong Stebbins' paintings stem from her interest in distilling experience down to simple organic elements. Like Garibay, her imagery is dream-like, unfolding without preconception, left to chance, striving to balance narrative with abstraction.

Please inquire with gallery for detailed information on works

In PROJECT SPACE - Jessica Serran | Project Truth Collection and Reflection
This heady installation explores Oakland as a place through the subjective truths of its people. After collecting "truths" of Oakland residents in Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland, the artist painted a mural on the walls of the Project Space gallery mapping out and responding to what she saw + heard. A filing cabinet sits in the space, where gallery visitors can read what Oakland residents wrote in response to the question, "What is true for you?"