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BEAUTY IN LANDSCAPE" width="626" height="465"/> October 13 - November 25, 2012 Reception Saturday, October 13, 2012 6 - 8PM Curator Talk on Thursday, November 8, 2012 7PM Swarm Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition “Beauty in Landscape; A Blockbuster Exhibition from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Historical Makeovers” by Kathy Aoki on view from October 13 - November 25, 2012. “Invisible Gestures”, an installation by Camilla Newhagen, will be presented in the Project Space. Kathy Aoki revisits her role as curator of the fictive Museum of Historical Makeovers in her second solo exhibition at Swarm Gallery. This time, Aoki presents work in multiple media — drawing, etching, photo, and painting — that cheekily centers around the concept of the Landscape. Learn about an ill-fated attempt by one artist to create a Hello Kitty Mount Rushmore on a Canadian cliff, reminisce about the Princess effect on the urban landscapes as depicted in editorial cartoons, and enjoy the beauty of watercolored mascara forestscapes. In the Project Space, Camilla Newhagen builds on her performance-based practice of sculpture, photography and video and explorations of geological layering and material conditions. In her multi-media installation, a video of the artist in a cubicle-like structure will be presented. Her recorded actions relate to and communicate with various objects placed on the surrounding walls and floor. Her focus is the conceptual gap between place and object, and her concern is the physical impact of the wireless age on one’s body.
BEAUTY IN LANDSCAPE" width="672" height="447"/>Camilla Newhagen, Invisible Gestures, 2012, Digital video still
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: Kathy Aoki received her MFA in printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis in 1994. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of SFMoMA, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Harvard University Art Museums, and the City of Seattle. Past exhibitions have been held in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City, Japan, and Ecuador. Past grants include a strategic planning grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), an Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council Silicon Valley, a public art grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Art on Market Street Program, and a Women’s Studio Workshop Artist Book Production Grant. Aoki currently lives and works in Santa Clara, where she is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Santa Clara University. Camilla Newhagen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and received a BFA in glass design from Kolding School of Design, Denmark and an MFA from Mills College in 2012. She was awarded the Herringer Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Art in both 2011 and 2012 and recently announced the winner of the Di Rosa juried MFA Selections 2012. She has exhibited her work extensively in San Francisco and the Bay Area, as well as in Chicago, Illinois, Paris, France and Copenhagen, Denmark. Newhagen currently lives and works in San Francisco.
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