PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 2007
Exhibition Dates: March 12 – April 13, 2008
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12-6PM
Artist Reception: Saturday, March 15, 3-6 PM
SOWA First Friday Reception: April 4, 5-8 PM
Passage, Margaret Swan’s exhibition of copper wall sculptures at Boston Sculptors Gallery, opens on Wednesday, March 12 and continues through Saturday, April 13, 2008. The public is invited to an artist’s reception on Saturday, March 15 from 3-6 p.m. and a SOWA First Friday reception on April 4 from 5-8 p.m.
Margaret Swan’s new work is inspired by the passage of time and space of early Cubist landscape paintings. Rectangular in format, the sculptures fuse receding and advancing planes around embedded branch-like tubular forms.
Dragon Veins, pictured on the announcement, is named after an expression used to describe the life carrying lines or arteries of the compositions of Chinese landscape paintings, another inspiration synthesized in Swan’s nature based reliefs. Working with copper sheet metal, the cut elements are hammered and folded to create deep receding channels within the projecting cubist-like planes. The shadows of the channels create dark outlines that further emphasize the shifting surfaces that are treated with dappled patinas.
A graduate of Syracuse University, Margaret Swan was awarded a fellowship for her Master’s Degree in Painting and Sculpture at Bennington College. Her sculpture has been included in exhibitions throughout New England, such as the Aldrich Museum, the DeCordova Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. Awarded two Massachusetts Artist Fellowships in Sculpture and other grants during her career, Margaret Swan has a commissioned site-specific piece on view at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12-6pm.
Contact:
Jean Mineo, Director
617-482-7781
info@bostonsculptors.com
Margaret Swan: 781-665-6718 |
