EXHIBITIONS/PAST/CURRENT/UPCOMING
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March 3 - April 15, 2012 Reception Saturday, March 10, 2012 6-8pm Swarm Gallery is pleased to present Jennifer Brandon, Masako Miyazaki and Sandra Ono in the group exhibition, IN THE SPACE BETWEEN, on view from March 3 - April 15, 2012. Adam Hathaway is featured in the project space. On view in the gallery will be a selection of new works of multimedia including sculpture, photography and work on paper. Jennifer Brandon’s photographic images consist of ephemeral forms she’s created with materials associated with protection and comfort: cushions, batting, fabrics and threads that connect them. The work is grounded in the traditions of still-life; each photograph bares physicality rich in metaphor, unveiling a relationship with the body - wads, folds and tangles. She uses photography as the medium to hold these objects up for investigation. Masako Miyazaki’s works on paper focus on the forms that emerge and dissipate in the intermediate space between extremes. Her work strives to capture the temporal, shifting and adapting nature of life’s living mass. What was yesterday is not today nor will it be tomorrow. This ceaseless state of change, the resulting flux of movement, and the denial of static forms and meanings define her work.The body is a starting point for Sandra Ono’s examination of different experiences and how it functions as an interface between material and concept. She uses inorganic and mass-produced, utilitarian products that come in close contact with the body. She then recontextualizes them to create non-functioning, organic and corporeal forms. All of her work is modular, built cell-by-cell, and becomes a physical documentation of time. She uses repetitive gestures to amass forms and give physical weight and dimension to different internal states. The project space features a sound and light installation titled Aurora Aquarius, by Oakland-based artist Adam Hathaway. Adam’s immersive installation attempts to bring the viewer’s mind into an uncertain world, a gray space, beyond definition, that serves as the incubator of new ideas. Aurora Aquarius uses a disturbed water surface as a dynamic lens to create a patterned light projection. The base of Aurora Aquarius vibrates irregularly which distorts the water contained in the work’s fish bowl. As light is projected through the surface of the water, the light projection becomes equally distorted. The result is an Aurora Borealis-like effect, emitting light projections that dance across the work’s surroundings in an ever-changing display of color and pattern. IN THE SPACE BETWEEN" width="593" height="800"/>
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Masako Miyazaki’s work reflects her interests in the transient and inevitable imperfection of forms. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, NY she has most recently relocated to Oakland, CA. MasakoÕs background in film has developed into a studio discipline deeply rooted in drawing, the reading and writing of text, and animation. Her primary subjects are of open energy systems such as fire and traffic jams, and temporal events of storms and Super Bowls. Much of her recent work focuses on syncopated rhythms and the language of movement, harkening the works of Norman McLaren, Walter Ruttman, and Man Ray. She has lived both in the U.S. and Kyoto, Japan and is similarly influenced by Japanese psychology and aesthetics, and the data mining discipline of statistics. Her film work has shown nationwide and won numerous awards. She is also in public collections at the New York Public Library and the Pacific Film Archive.Sandra Ono is a mixed media artist whose work investigates the experience of the human body. Ono was born in Los Angeles, California and currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA from Mills College and her BA from the University of California, Davis. Ono has exhibited at the di Rosa Preserve, Electric Works, Kala Art Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in California, and Conduit Gallery in Dallas, TX. She is a recipient of the Jay de Feo Merit Award, Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship Award and the Kala Art Institute Fellowship and Residency Award. Ono completed a residency at Vermont Studio Center and begins her residency at Kala Art Insitute in January 2012. She will be showing at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary (Oakland) in summer 2012. Adam Hathaway was born in 1980 and grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. He received a B.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Montevallo in 2004, and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. He has had recent group exhibitions at the Exploratorium (2009), Southern Exposure (2010), and a critically acclaimed collaboration with Casey Logan at Royal Nonesuch Gallery (2011). His work resides in many private collections and includes a public sculpture installed on the campus of the University of Montevallo.
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