 Erick Swenson James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of Erick Swenson. Since 1998, Swenson has created sculptures and installations that embody a complex and emotional terrain. Swenson's mythical tableaux gravitate back to the artist's childhood interest in dioramas and the natural world. Swenson's newest large-scale sculpture consists of a cobble stone street, elaborately cast and presented on risers, measuring 24 x 14 feet. The street, appearing as if from a distant century, glistens with slush and freshly fallen snow. Alone and central on this street, a deer has seemingly succumbed to tragic and elemental events. The viewer is witness to an accident that has occurred without clear explanation. Icicles that have formed on the body of the deer also indicate the passage of time. Vulnerability, loneliness and isolation are what compress the drama of this uncharted narrative, where the event becomes a single and loaded moment. As curator Lynn Herbert has written, "Swenson leaves the story in our hands... and we come to see and understand the human condition, as in many a child's fable, through the eyes of the animal". Erick Swenson graduated from the School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas in 1999. His work is currently on view in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Swenson's work has also received solo exhibitions at ULCA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2003), and at the Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (2002), and is in the permanent collections of The Dallas Museum of Art, The Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Texas, as well as The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Born in Phoenixville, PA. in 1972, Swenson currently lives and works in Dallas, TX. Exhibition: April 3 - May 1, 2004 Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 10 am - 6 pm James Cohan Gallery 533 West 26th Street USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +212 714 95 00 Fax +212 714 95 10 Email info@jamescohan.com www.jamescohan.com |
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