Event Listing - Galleries
Thu Nov 6 - Wed Dec 24

William Swanson: The Impact Curve


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Location
Date and Time
Marx & Zavattero
77 Geary Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108 map
cross street: Grant Ave.
district: Downtown/Financial District

Thu Nov 6 (OPENING RECEPTION 5:30-7:30)
Fri Nov 7 (Tue-Fri 10:30--5:30; Sat 11-5)
Sat Nov 8 (Tue-Fri 10:30--5:30; Sat 11-5)
Tue Nov 11 (Tue-Fri 10:30--5:30; Sat 11-5)
Wed Nov 12 (Tue-Fri 10:30--5:30; Sat 11-5)

Description
Marx & Zavattero are delighted to present "The Impact Curve," William Swanson’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The Oakland artist is well known for creating abstract acrylic paintings where nature and technology fuse. His signature retro-palette reveals a challenging myriad of colors and imagery that allude to a futuristic fusion of organic and man-made landscapes. These new and unique compositions continue to mark Swanson as a visionary voice in contemporary abstract painting.

Swanson’s most recent paintings focus on isolated masses or scapes that seem to hover in space, suggesting lost relics of a civilization where industrial sites teeter on collapse next to areas of pure nature yet to be consumed. He is a master of spatial allusion, creating multiple viewpoints that are luxurious by way of stimulating the eye to wander throughout his paintings. His sense of decay, evocations of barren topography, and the aftereffects of global warming hint at a politicized landscape.