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Swarm Gallery

November 14 - December 22, 2008

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560 Second Street Oakland, CA 94607
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Final Dream Fringe Reuben Margolin, Pentagonal (2008), Mixed media
Artist Reception | Friday, November 14, 2008, 6-8PM FINAL DREAM FRINGE explores the inspiration drawn from the beauty of nature and urbanity, and the logic of mathematics and technology. Erik Friedman's work focuses on investigating the landscape in which he resides, an industrial and severely depressed section of East Oakland. He looks closely within the seemingly bleak visual landscape and discovers where bright, beautiful, and hopeful intrusions occur - a visiting carnival, for example, which offers a distraction from the languid and somber landscape. Inherent in all this, has always been a realization that there is a very real and strange beauty to the landscape, however fractured and evaporated it may seem. Erik's latest work is an endeavor to explode the spirit of urbanity, introducing moments of quiet beauty in which elements of the detritus fall calmly within a pictorial space from a different era. Reuben Margolin's large-scale kinetic sculpture captivates viewers with fluid movement. Best known for his "Wave" pieces, Reuben's work invites contemplation from a variety of perspectives: as a mesmerizing kinetic sculpture; as a visualization of the complexities of wave motion and related scientific and mathematical concepts; and as an intricate and beautiful mechanical device. Reuben's work combines the logic of mathematics with inspiration drawn from the beauty and patterns of nature. His work has been shown at the Exploratorium, the Aquarium of the Pacific, Chabot Science Center and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Final Dream Fringe Erik Friedman, Languid (2008), Ink and gouache on Duralene, 36 x 24 inches