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Swarm Gallery

January 9 - February 15, 2009

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http://swarmgallery.com/
(510) 839-2787

560 Second Street Oakland, CA 94607

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Laura Ball, Transport for the Interior (2008), Watercolor on Paper, 32 x 52 inches

Artist Reception | Friday, January 9, 2009, 6-8PM Laura Ball's work has always addressed real world battles and the ludic activities of play and competition. The characters in Ball's watercolors and oil paintings are represented by her sisters, her mother and herself often engaged in play-fighting, struggling against a torrent of water, or battling swords. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE explores fantastical characters of our minds, examining the journeys and struggles we undertake both as mythological characters and as ourselves. For this exhibition, the heroic journey of world myths and the events of the subconscious provide sources for conflict and struggle that move from the world into the depths of the psyche "...into unsuspected Aladdin caves ... where not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives." (Joseph Campbell) Pivotal moments from the heroines' journeys inspire the paintings and watercolors, which can in turn be read as universal icons that map progress along life's path.