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The Little Show
November 24 - December 23, 2007
Reception for the Artists: Thursday, November 29, 2007 6-9PM

Mayumi Hamanaka

Taro Hattori

Swarm Studios + Gallery
560 Second Street
Oakland, CA 94607

Tel/Fax 510/839-2787 (ARTS)
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Map of 560 2nd St Oakland, CA 94607-3543, US
The Little Show
Co-curators, Svea Lin Vezzone and Andrea Antonaccio invited artists to create new artworks within the dimensions of 8" x 8" x 8". The purpose? "There are too many great artists out there to consistently curate 2 and 3-person shows. The artists in 'The Little Show' are artists we've admired, worked with, or would like to work with in the future." The timing of this show is perfect, for both the holidays and for Swarm Gallery, which has been open only a year and a half. "There won't be a price limit placed on the works, but since there is a size limit, we expect most, if not all, the works will be accessible to even the most emerging art collectors." And don't forget, this is also going to be a great party. See you there!

Participating Artists: Patricia Ancona, Lorene Anderson, Kathy Aoki, Laura Ball, Deborah Barrett, Steven R. Barich, Ray Beldner, Linda Braz, Allegra Burke, John Casey, Kirsten Chappa, Susan Chen, Jared Lindsay Clark, Lia Cook, Ben Cressy, Lauren Davies, Dana DeKalb, Jeff Eisenberg, Tara Foley, Erik Freidman, Terry Furry, Marianna Garibay, James Gayles, Kathy Graddy, Jackie Gratz, Lora Groves, Andrea Guskin, Elyse Hochstadt, Josh Hagler, Mayumi Hamanaka, Taro Hattori, Dave Higgins, Laura Kamian, Michael Kerbow, Sherry Koyama, Mary Anne Kluth, Lisa Kokin, Jaime Lakatos, Noah Lang, Christina La Sala, Hugh Livingston, Christopher Loomis, Jeremiah Maddoch, Paul Madonna, Michelle Mansour, Eileen Starr Moderbacher, Elise Morris, Gage Opdenbrouw, Nathaniel Parsons, Chris Pew, Lisa Perrott, Chris Powell, Michele Pred, Yuri Psinakis, Thomas Pratt, Ryan Reynolds, Walter Robinson, Andrew Romanoff, Bayete Ross Smith, Laurel Roth, Reuben Rude, Nadim Sabella, Andrew Schoultz, Jessica Serran, Ema Sintamarian, Casey Jex Smith, Travis Somerville, Kirsten Stolle, Kirk Stoller, Inez Storer, Sudhu Tewari, Josephine Taylor, Kevin E. Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Cleo Villet, Andy Vogt, Stuart Wagner, Heather Wilcoxon, Christine Wong Yap, lauren woods, Mary Younkin, Dana Zed

Apoptosis

New Work by Taro Hattori
November 2nd to January 18, 2008
Receptions: Friday, November 2, 2007 (Opening)
Friday, December 7, 2007 (As a part of First Friday Openings in San Jose)
Space 47
47 E. William St. San Jose, CA 95112

The idea of "constructing the image of destruction" comes into my head so frequently these days. It may be "constructing the image of destroyed space." This is intentional construction and simulation of the damaged, not something wrecked accidentally.

Images of destroyed space surround us. These mass media images somehow stimulate our eyes to find something similar. This uncanny power of symbolization forces us to find wrecked buildings, cities, people, airplanes, cars and many other destroyed things in our everyday life. The flood of such images is often pinpointed as a cause of numbness to human suffering; I feel it is undeniably undermining our psychological stability. In this vicious circle, our neuroses overpowers hope. In the way we get over a psychological fixation from traumatic experience by repeating the same symbolic activity over and over, we may be reproducing the image of the destroyed to comprehend our collective contemporary experience. In the way a child keeps singing the same song over and over to get over her/his anxiety and fear standing alone in the middle of nowhere, we may feel totally lost with the realization of how powerless we are.

Fall 2007: October 1 - November 30, 2007

"Fabric of Identity"

Fabric of Identity investigates the representation of identities from a number of different perspectives, taking into account historical, political and cultural contexts, as well as the influences of the subjective views of the artists. The curators consider how identities are formed and how they shift over time and through place. Textiles woven into clothing and furnishings as well as fiber/multi-media installations form the visual focus of the exhibition.

http://westerngallery.wwu.edu/schedule.shtml