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Swarm Gallery

March 5 - April 11, 2011

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560 Second Street Oakland, CA 94607
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Aboveground Mayumi Hamanaka, above ground - My Lay (detail) (2011), Archival pigment print, pins, 30 x 40 x 1.5 inches
Exhibit Opening Saturday, March 5, 6-8PM Swarm Gallery is pleased to present "aboveground," an exhibition of new work by Mayumi Hamanaka on view from March 5 - April 10, 2011. The artist's first solo show with Swarm Gallery features large-scale photo-based cut-out images and photography. Growing up in the climate of rapid economical growth and globalization, Mayumi Hamanaka's art practice has followed concepts of individualism, mass-circulated trends, personal histories/memories buried within historical events, and power struggles of individuals within group dynamics. We're also happy to welcome Ohio-based sound artist, Seth Cluett, for his installation in our project space. This installation is part three of our year-long sound program "Building Steam," curated by Jeff Eisenberg, Svea Lin Soll, and Aaron Ximm. Seth Cluett's work examines the nature and act of recorded sound through the lens of memory. Rather than viewing a recording as a capturing of reality as it is experienced, the tangible or even representative trace of a previous event, Cluett considers recorded sound as a thing unto itself- a catalyst for the listener's imagination, one which mirrors the processes of memory in its own unique way.