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Swarm Gallery

February 8 - March 9, 2008

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560 Second Street Oakland, CA 94607
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Ricky Allman + Zachary Royer Scholz
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 2008, 6 – 8PM Raised Mormon, Ricky Allman was taught to prepare for the Apocalypse – a complete and final destruction of the world. Sure he wouldn't live to see adulthood, he aligned with dystopian visions of his future. In his 20s, he moved from Utah's protective mountain landscape to the city of Boston, where he saw the skyscrapers vulnerable to destruction, ready to crash down with the slightest provocation. The city became an apocalyptic metaphor for his life. He began to study the way architecture interacts and overlaps with nature, and how it dominates or is dominated by its surroundings. Ricky explores architectural spaces in his work to play out his fascinations and fears, utopia and dystopia, and issues of faith and doubt. Zachary Royer Scholz is a sculptor and conceptual artist who works collaboratively with his materials, manipulating objects to shift their boundaries of significance. Like paired artist Ricky Allman, Zachary also uses architectural spaces to alter and create new meaning. As objects tend to renew themselves in different contexts, Zachary leverages unexpected possibilities for unforeseeable ends. PROJECT SPACE Dark Into Light | Christine Wong Yap Dark into Light is a mixed media installation of lights. It is accompanied by a limited-edition artist's book featuring a glow-in-the-dark screen-printed cover. Christine is an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.