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Katherine Westerhout: WINTER LIGHT September 9 - October 8, 2006 Artists Talk, Saturday, September 30, 3pm Katherine Westerhout, Louisiana II and Louisana III (2006) Large-format pigment prints on exhibit at Swarm Gallery are a selection from multiple ongoing series' that focus on the interior spaces of abandoned buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and the southern United States. Within these empty spaces, Westerhout meets a vision of the psyche, a dark and quiet place that reflects the deepest parts of the self. An echo punctuates human absence; carried on the light is a message not wholly decipherable. In her introduction to Westerhout's newly produced box set sharing the name of the exhibition, Stephanie JT Russell writes about these mysterious places that are full of history and possibilities: "A battalion of girders in a factory, a luminous arcade through a madhouse. A ceiling festooned with urgent memos and ashen pinups, a warren of doors left open to nothingness... [These rooms are] sanctuaries of magisterial light." Katherine Westerhout has exhibited locally and internationally, including such venues as: The Oakland Museum of California; the Arts Commission Gallery, Limn Gallery, and Gallery 16, San Francisco; the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art; the Berkeley Art Center and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley; the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle; the Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles; and Sepia International and A.I.R. galleries in New York City; The Biblioteca Nacional in Havana, Cuba, and Michael Hoppen Gallery, London. Katherine's photographs are printed exclusively in the pigmented inkjet process at Trillium Press, Brisbane. Katherine Westerhout's photographs may be ordered through Swarm Gallery in three image dimensions: 30"x40", 22.5"x30" and 16"x21.5". Please contact the gallery for more information or to schedule an appointment to see her collection (click on thumbnails below to see larger image). In PROJECT SPACE - lauren woods' hybrid media projects use video and 16-mm film as well as appropriated material to contemplate and question cultural and collective memory in history as well as contemporary times. Her work, inspired by sociopolitical theories, psychology, and contemporary and historical film and art discourses, takes shape in the form of single channel projections and large-scale multi-channel installations. woods creates "ethno-fictive" (a term borrowed from Jean Rouch) documents of her navigation through the world as an American woman artist of the African Diaspora, approaching the documentary as subjective, rather than objective.

Katherine Westerhout: WINTER LIGHT

September 9 - October 8, 2006
Artists Talk, Saturday, September 30, 3pm

Katherine Westerhout, Louisiana II and Louisana III (2006)

Large-format pigment prints on exhibit at Swarm Gallery are a selection from multiple ongoing series' that focus on the interior spaces of abandoned buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and the southern United States. Within these empty spaces, Westerhout meets a vision of the psyche, a dark and quiet place that reflects the deepest parts of the self. An echo punctuates human absence; carried on the light is a message not wholly decipherable. In her introduction to Westerhout's newly produced box set sharing the name of the exhibition, Stephanie JT Russell writes about these mysterious places that are full of history and possibilities: "A battalion of girders in a factory, a luminous arcade through a madhouse. A ceiling festooned with urgent memos and ashen pinups, a warren of doors left open to nothingness... [These rooms are] sanctuaries of magisterial light."

Katherine Westerhout has exhibited locally and internationally, including such venues as: The Oakland Museum of California; the Arts Commission Gallery, Limn Gallery, and Gallery 16, San Francisco; the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art; the Berkeley Art Center and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley; the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle; the Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles; and Sepia International and A.I.R. galleries in New York City; The Biblioteca Nacional in Havana, Cuba, and Michael Hoppen Gallery, London. Katherine's photographs are printed exclusively in the pigmented inkjet process at Trillium Press, Brisbane.

Katherine Westerhout's photographs may be ordered through Swarm Gallery in three image dimensions: 30"x40", 22.5"x30" and 16"x21.5". Please contact the gallery for more information or to schedule an appointment to see her collection (click on thumbnails below to see larger image).

In PROJECT SPACE - lauren woods' hybrid media projects use video and 16-mm film as well as appropriated material to contemplate and question cultural and collective memory in history as well as contemporary times. Her work, inspired by sociopolitical theories, psychology, and contemporary and historical film and art discourses, takes shape in the form of single channel projections and large-scale multi-channel installations. woods creates "ethno-fictive" (a term borrowed from Jean Rouch) documents of her navigation through the world as an American woman artist of the African Diaspora, approaching the documentary as subjective, rather than objective.