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Swarm Gallery

June 27 - July 28, 2008

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Junction: Recent works by Mills College MFA Grads
Artist Reception | Friday, June 27, 2008, 6-8PM Swarm Gallery is pleased to present a selection of standout artists from this year's Mills College MFA program. JUNCTION, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Michael Hall and Ethan Worden, represents the creative paths and unrevealed futures of each emerging artist, coming together in the gallery setting. Each working with disparate themes, the two artists pull together polarized ideas within their work. Michael Hall's oil paintings explore concepts of control and protection and the difficulties encountered in achieving a balance between the two. Ethan Worden plays with the associations we make with objects. He manipulates scale and configuration to jostle these connections and loosen the ties between the stories we assign to an object and the object itself. Michael Hall is an Oakland based artist. He received his BFA from California College of the Arts and was recently awarded the Headlands MFA Fellowship. Ethan Worden is also an Oakland-based artist and is a recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship and the Herringer Family Foundation Prize. PROJECT SPACE TRISHA GROVER | "Display/Dispense" In the Project Space, Trisha Grover examines disposability in our consumer culture with room-size application of plastic called Display/Dispense. Cheap, shiny, and able to retain any form imaginable, plastic is the material that has come to define modern living. What do we ignore in order to rationalize these objects' disposability?