“Get Left”: New Works by Ian Swanson
Opening Reception Friday, February 19, 2010 at 6:00pm
through Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 11:00pm
at Mosaic Productions
an Swanson is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and co-founder of the Detroit-based artist run gallery Org Contemporary. He works in a variety of media and through a number of methods. He received his BFA from Wayne State University and has exhibited extensively throughout the state. He was born, raised, and currently lives and works in the Metro Detroit area.
In this series of works, Swanson explores the relationships between generational nostalgia, popular culture, spirituality, and identity. His paintings and sculptures take to task youthful excess, artistic transcendence, media saturation, and cultural sophistication freely and interchangeably, embracing their contradictory natures and the riddles and inquiries they create. He appropriates openly from whatever varied sources fit his needs, mining imagery and ideas without restriction from kitschy ephemera, to Byzantine Iconography, to sleek modern product design. He recycles, distributes, and filters these manifold influences through an elaborate personal lexicon to create works that are richly layered with both formal and conceptual nuance.
There will be an opening reception on February 19th from 6-10 pm.
Admission is free and complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
MOSAIC Productions is a new gallery founded by Jeanne Moore and Billy Hunter, art curators and exhibition planners whose goal is to promote artists from the metro Detroit area and get them recognized in the art communities here and elsewhere in the US.
The gallery is located at 15531 Mack Avenue in Detroit between Alter and Cadieux, directly across the street from the Hard Luck Lounge.
For more information email mosaicproduction@hotmail.com or call 313.478.6722. Also, be sure to visit Mosaic on Facebook and stay up to date with exhibition information: http://www.facebook.com
