Jared Lindsay Clark, Jake Watling

Enter/Exit

2/20/2009 - 3/29/2009 at Swarm Gallery

Opening reception February 20th, 6-8pm

Swarm Gallery presents ENTER/EXIT, an exhibition featuring new works by Berkeley-based artist Jake Watling and New York-based artist Jared Clark. In the project space, Olympia-based artist Joe Penrod paints shadows of ordinary objects using blue painter's tape.

Using installation, sculpture, paintings and works on paper, the three artists join in a visual dialogue from varying perspectives. When you walk into a gallery, what will happen in the time before you walk out? What will you see and connect to? What is intimated, what is said, what screams out to you? What lies in the chasm between the contradictory ideas of life and death? Is there a linear path, or is it cyclical, transforming into new life, new meaning, over and over? Where do we exit our worlds and enter someone else's? Where do the boundaries lie?

Jake Watling's paintings investigate themes of life and death, generational cycles, and rebirth from both his personal perspective as well as through a broader context. In composing his pieces, Watling refers to childhood memories, personal experiences, cities and streetscapes, his community, and a diversity of beliefs and rituals. His work often integrates religious themes within an urban setting, and humorously plays with ideas of passive transformations, false selves and moral virtues.

New York-based artist Jared Clark visits Oakland for his second exhibition at Swarm. Clark approaches his media as a self-defined "Interventionist." He is interested in transforming objects without deforming them. Aside from his drawings, he works exclusively with found objects. His program of intervention is not one of discontent with the object's current existence but of joy for its potential.

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