May 2012
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Jeff Eisenberg feature + fair
Jeff Eisenberg - My little wolf, singel shot bolt action rifle
Our Jeff Eisenberg is this month’s featured artist over at Austin-based ejournal …might be good. See his feature here, and come visit our room (#44!) at this weekend’s ArtPad to see Jeff’s most recent work!
Jeff Eisenberg - My little wolf, .22 caliber
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ArtPadSF kicking off tonight!
Image courtesy of ArtPadSF
ArtPadSF, in all its poolside art-gazing glory, begins tonight with an Opening Benefit Party, as well as an Opening Night Benefit Preview, preceded by a Press Preview. If you can get in on at least one of those, you are kicking off the art fair weekend right. There are three full days of general admission, however, so you are getting lots of chances to come hang out...
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Countdown to ArtPadSF!
Summer wanted to let us know it’ll be here soon by way of sending us lots of teasing sunshine in recent days. We just hope it sticks around a few more weeks for the best summer kick-off pool party in the art world, ArtPadSF! We’ll be setting up shop once again in room 44 at the Phoenix Hotel for this year’s fair, which takes place May 17-20.
Jeff Eisenberg - My Little Wolf,...
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Press times 3, Murmur edition
Image courtesy of SF Chronicle
We’re excited about the extensive press coverage we got from our Art Murmur kickoff back in April. The SF Chronicle featured us in three articles from the successful single-night event!
Head on over to SF Gate and check out this great review of Jordan Essoe’s performance from the evening, this article on the expansion of Art Murmur, and this preview...
April 2012
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Oakland Art Murmur | May 4 at Swarm Gallery
Multimedia Installation by Swarm studio artist Terry Furry
Swarm Gallery’s studio program is not holding back for the Art Murmur events! Last month we featured an epic show, with a live performance by Jordan Essoe, video installation by Masako Miyazaki, and live music by Karte Kinski. This month promises just as neat a vibe, so come down to the water for your Murmur festivities!...
March 2012
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Our 1st First + our Sixth on the 6th
It’s celebration time. Next Friday, April 6th we celebrate our SIXTH year in operation and our FIRST First Friday, and we will be hosting a whole evening of festivities![[MORE]]
We have a great lineup for you all for our First Friday featuring open studios with all of our studio artists Terry Furry, James Gayles, Cleo Villet, Kristen Jensen, Laura Basha, Meghan Kinder, Masako Miyazaki,...
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SWARM JOINS OAKLAND ART MURMUR!
As we recently mentioned, Oakland Art Murmur has expanded its membership area to include galleries and mixed-use art venues between 27th street and Jack London Square, along the Broadway and Telegraph corridor. This change brings in four new galleries and five new mixed-use venues, including Swarm (!) as well as our neighbors the Hive (301 Jefferson) and Urban Legend Cellars (621 4th St).
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Cloud Shepherd, India Cooke & Solace Trio @ Swarm...
Come down Saturday evening for a night of sound collage at the gallery! We can’t think of a better way to kick off spring than with a night full of strings, theremins, waterphones, and all sorts of ethereal noises mashed-up by local musicians (and a Grammy-nominee).
Image: Collage by Michael Lowe Grandi
SOUND SCULPTURE Saturday, March 24, 8PM Swarm Gallery 560 Second Street,...
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We're on the map!
We are so excited to announce that, starting in April, we will among the many esteemed member galleries of the Oakland Art Murmur![[MORE]] We’re finally on the map, so you be able to check us out on first Fridays and round out the Saturday stroll down here near Jack London. We are thrilled!
So thrilled, in fact, that we are adding some entertainment to our Art Murmur evenings. First up...
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SUNDAY! JABBERCLAW & STRATIC AT SWARM
Sunday, March 11, 8PM Swarm Gallery 560 Second Street, Oakland CA 94607 $10-15 donation at the door An evening of music with Oakland-based avant-jazz-post-rock group Stratic Michael Coleman, keyboards & electronics Aram Shelton, saxophone & electronics Alex Vittum, drums and
Album release performance by Berkeley/Brooklyn hybrid trio Jabberclaw Jon Arkin, drums Brian Drye, trombone...
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CLOUD SHEPHERD, INDIA COOKE & SOLACE TRIO AT SWARM
We’re pleased to present yet another fabulous musical event at Swarm Gallery!
SOUND SCULPTURE Saturday, March 24, 8PM Swarm Gallery 560 Second Street, Oakland CA 94607
Suggested donation $10 at the door. No one turned away.
Image: Collage by Michael Lowe Grandi
Featuring the music and art of SOLACE TRIO Joshua Downer, guitar, vocals Tim Kim, violin, vocals Joseph Mintz, guitar,...
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Laura Ball works @ 2nd St. Gallery Family Art Day...
Hey, people over in Charlottesville, Virginia! Go check out Laura Ball’s current works at 2nd Street Gallery for a special free Family Art Day event happening this Saturday from 10am-1pm. There will be hands-on art projects for children of all ages—visitors can take inspiration from Laura’s works to create their own. In addition, Dimitri Dimitri will be performing live music.
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February 2012
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Swarm Intelligence on KALX live 9pm TONIGHT @ the...
Don’t forget folks! Tonight at 9pm down at the gallery we have a great show that will be broadcast live on KALX! Swarm Intelligence, a new band featuring a few folks who have played here before (Grex + Jordan Glenn, Phillip Greenlief, Dan Seamans, Cory Wright), will be performing along with the Ross Hammond Quartet (w/Vinny Golia, Steuart Liebig, Alex Cline), who are celebrating the...
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Art Hound crushin' on Jillian Ludwig this week
After mentioning Katy Horan’s featured work at Buy Some Damn Art earlier today, I noticed that Swarm’s Jillian Ludwig was mentioned earlier this week over at Art Hound, BSDA’s sister site. Head over there to scope Jillian’s work and to see a nicely curated selection of other great artists from all over!
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Swarm featured in the EBX Insider's Guide!
Swarm is featured in the East Bay Express Insider’s Guide in this week’s issue! Pick up a guide for yourself and see where else you can experience the many great things happening this side of the bay.
Swarm studio artist Masako Miyazaki!
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New Katy Horan works @ Buy Some Damn Art!
Photo courtesy of Buy Some Damn Art
Swarm’s Katy Horan is the featured artist this week over at Buy Some Damn Art, a site dedicated to affordable art run by Art Hound’s Kate Singleton. New works by Katy, priced between $400-$500 each, will be up for the next six weeks on the site. Also check out BSDA’s interview with Katy over at at their blog!
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Of Course Not write up in East Bay Express!
Paul Morgan, I’m Lichen This! (2011), Screenprint, 20 x 26 inches
Head on over to the East Bay Express to check out Dewitt Cheng’s coverage our current show, Of Course Not. And make a point to stop by the gallery if you need another look (or a first look) at this show before the show ends Sunday February 26th!
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Mayumi Hamanaka @ Middlesex County College Studio...
Swarm’s Mayumi Hamanaka is in a group show that opened up February 2nd at Middlesex County College Studio Theatre Gallery in Edison, New Jersey. The show, entitled Self: Scape is an exhibition that “conceptually questions the metaphoric redefinition of the environment through the artist’s perspective,” according to curator and Drexel University professor Jen Blazina. “Whether it is a...
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John Casey @ Galerie Polaris (Paris) 2/11 through...
To our French followers (or those lucky ones adventuring in Paris this month), Swarm’s John Casey has a solo show opening in the main gallery of Galerie Polaris today (or, yesterday, Paris time), Saturday February 11 from 2-9pm! The show, Big Idea, also features a group exhibition in the second gallery featuring the work of Claude Briand-Picard, Marine Joatton, Maëlle Labussière,...
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Live KALX broadcast of Swarm Intelligence on 2/25...
We’re excited to announce a show—that will be broadcast live on KALX!—coming up later this month on Saturday 2/25 at the gallery! Swarm Intelligence, a new band featuring a few folks who have played here before (Grex + Jordan Glenn, Phillip Greenlief, Dan Seamans, Cory Wright), will be performing along with the Ross Hammond Quartet (w/Vinny Golia, Steuart Liebig, Alex Cline),...
Interview in SFAQ Magazine!
Photography by Bonnie Chan
Gregory Ito interviewed Swarm Gallery director, Svea Lin Soll, in the latest issue of the San Francisco Arts Quarterly (FEB/MAR/APR 2012). Click the link to download and read.
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Jeff Eisenberg current and upcoming
Swarm’s Jeff Eisenberg is part of the Kala Artists’ Annual group show that’s currently up and running through this Saturday, February 4th. Go check out Jeff’s stunning new graphite drawings and other works from over 90 members of Kala’s artist community of Fellows, Artists-in-Residence, workshop instructors, and staff.
Next up for Jeff is his residency at the...
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Jessalyn Aaland + Paul Morgan featured in Oakland...
Wondering how current Swarm exhibiting artists Jessalyn Aaland and Paul Morgan make such crazy cool art? Oakland Art Beat recently spoke with the artists about their collaborative tendencies, the reason they love working in Oakland, and their current show at Swarm. Check it out to learn more of the interesting ways in which they work together.
January 2012
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Music friends in the news! As seen @ Swarm
Excited to see some great musician friends of the gallery get some coverage in this week’s East Bay Express!
Members of the featured band, Kapowski, are past (and future) performers at the gallery in our slowly-growing and ever-evolving series featuring talented people performing all kinds of sounds.
And on that note, a huge thanks to Lawson for a great performance last Friday. Those...
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Jeff Eisenberg @ POVevolving Gallery till next...
Swarm’s Jeff Eisenberg is in a solo exhibition that opened in December at POVevolving Gallery in LA. The show, Convergent De-evolution, features new graphite drawings that “suggest multiple readings of a single image; friend or foe; decay or past.” Check it out before it comes down next weekend! Click through for images from the show.
Images courtesy of POVevolving...
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Lawson Release Party TONIGHT @ Swarm!
TONIGHT at 8pm we will be hosting the release party for Oakland-based Lawson’s debut, Tales from the Land of Lawson!
Lawson is a project of local saxaphonist Jacob Zimmerman and an ensemble comprised of Theo Padouvas (trumpet), Cory Wright (tenor sax), Rob Ewing (trombone), Michael Coleman (keyboard), Dan VanHassel (keyboard), Dan Good (electronics, trumpet). The evening will open with a...
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Call & Response now available online!
In case you missed out on this book during John Casey’s Tall Tales show here back in the fall, you have another chance to score a copy of Call & Response at our shop!
Call & Response matches Mary’s writing with John’s drawing and vice versa. In some cases John goes first, drawing a character engaged in an activity. Mary responds to the drawing with a short story,...
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OF COURSE NOT opens this weekend + upcoming...
We’re really thrilled to present Of Course Not, a two person show by Oakland locals Jessalyn Aaland and Paul Morgan, opening this Saturday January 14th from 6-8! Jessalyn and Paul will be DJing some tunes of the dancehall/international/jazz variety. We will also have kettlecorn treats and handcrafted cocktails on hand!
Upcoming next week:
Release party for Oakland-based Lawson’s...
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The new year's new show: Jessalyn Aaland + Paul...
Happy new year, everyone! It certainly feels new with a brand-new show opening here next week. We are very excited to welcome Oakland artists Jessalyn Aaland and Paul Morgan for their first two-person show, opening next Saturday January 14th, 2012.
Screenprint by Paul Morgan (2011), 26 x 20 inches
Rumor has it there just might be some early 70’s dancehall even perhaps some kettle corn...
December 2011
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Holiday Hours + Current/Upcoming
Laura Ball, Charge (2011), Watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches
If you are looking for a place to bring your out-of-town visitors in the next few days, come check out the current show, Mystical Menagerie, before the gallery closes for the holidays from December 24th to January 3rd.
Jessalyn Aaland, Trying To Reach the Point of Largest Growth (2010), Collage on paper, 15 x 20.5 inches
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Make your holidays happier: Give an original piece...
Casey Jex Smith, Untitled (Colorful Pencil) (2008), Collage on paper, 7.5 x 5.5 inches. $150.
Do you want to give something meaningful to the folks on your list this year? Here are our picks for an affordable, memorable gift this holiday season…
Give a truly unique gift to a special person in your life and support a great artist by purchasing an original piece of artwork from Swarm!...
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Grand opening for popuphood this Friday!
Photo courtesy of Oakland North Oaklanders are hungry. For food, and drinks and what not, but also for just…more good stuff in to happen in the town. Well, something really innovative is upon us this Friday, December 9, with popuphood, a new urban initiative in Old Oakland offering six new retail shops in five previously vacant store fronts with six months free rent.
Local entrepreneurs...
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College Track Oakland presents: Winter Showcase...
Come down to the gallery next Thursday, December 15 from 5-8pm to support the local students of College Track Oakland at their annual Winter Showcase 2011! The event will feature student performances, music, dancing, and speakers to promote College Track Oakland and to raise funds for student leadership programming and donations for the Toys for Tots foundation. There will be raffles, local ...
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Yelp Elite Event @ Swarm gallery!
The cool folks over at Yelp hosted a very successful Yelp Elite Event here at the gallery last week. Their fun and creative project included creating name tags from Shrinky Dinks. Check out the review for more photos and info about the event straight from the Yelpers who attended!
Also, in case you haven’t heard, we rent out our great space for all kinds of events. Want to get married in...
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Ethan Worden in 2 shows opening this week
The space above the Golden Gate Bridge, postcard by Ethan Worden
Ethan Worden is having quite a busy month around these parts. Perhaps he should consider hibernating for the winter after his three current shows wrap up?
Ethan has a few pieces in a show opening tomorrow, 12/8, at the Bedford Gallery for an exhibition of photography called SNAP: A National Juried Photography Exhibition. The...
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Friday Happenings in and around Swarm
Are you not sure what to do with yourself this Friday? How about a little pre-art murmur art viewing? Come down to Swarm and see the really great work in our current exhibition, Mystical Menagerie. We’ll open an hour later, till 6:30 that night!
Image courtesy of KBLX
Afterward, head on over to Jack London Square to witness the lighting of the humongous holiday tree at 7pm. You might want...
November 2011
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Happy Harvest, Everybody!
Swarm Gallery will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 + 25. Gallery hours will resume for the weekend! Saturday and Sunday, November 27 + 28, 12-5:30. Current exhibition is “MYSTICAL MENAGERIE”, stellar new works by Laura Ball + Jillian Ludwig, with an installation “RADICAL GEOGRAPHER” by Michele Pred in the project space.
Happy Harvest, Everybody!
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Behind the Barn Door
People. Did you know we used to primarily answer to the name Swarm Studios? Have you checked out our studios lately? Because they are a really special component of the gallery that we’d love to share with the world.
Photo courtesy of Jen Giese
If you haven’t been beyond the gallery barn door (or even beyond the gallery front door), you need to take a field trip down here. We...
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Ethan Worden in SOEX's "Working Conditions,"...
Ethan Worden, T(HERE) (2010), Neon, 7 x 29 x 2.5 inches
Southern Exposure has a great show opening Friday, November 11, featuring Swarm’s Ethan Worden. The group exhibition, Working Conditions, features Ethan and 8 other artists working on process-based installations for the duration of the exhibit (through January 6th). More from SOEX about the show: Working Conditions is a process-based...
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Day of the Draw! Tomorrow from 6-9pm
Please join us tomorrow, November 3rd, for Day of the Draw! An evening of live drawing and beer hosted by John Casey at Swarm. 20+ local artists who have collaborated in his Hands & Pants project currently on display at the gallery will be drawing live. Art made that night will be available for sale, so bring cash because you can buy drawings directly from the artists. This is a perfect...
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Tia Factor solo show opens in Portland Friday!
Hey Portlanders! Tia Factor’s solo show, In Want of the World, opens at Half/Dozen Gallery (722 E Burnside & SE 8th Ave) this Friday evening from 6-9. From the gallery press release:
Through interviews and translations, Tia Factor has created a series of intimate paintings that singularly capture adventure and memory from a host of different perspectives, both familiar and...
October 2011
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We support Occupy Oakland!
Michael McDermott, We’ll Rescue you (Salvation) (2007)
Upon opening our doors this morning at the gallery and hearing the ominous swarm of helicopters still hovering nearby, we felt compelled to express our support of those Oaklanders who have been occupying downtown for the last few weeks. Hearing of the extreme police response has been disheartening—especially considering how much...
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Pedalfest happening in Jack London Square this...
We love our bikes here, so of course we are quite excited about Pedalfest (happening right around the corner from the gallery) this weekend! Pedalfest is a free celebration of all things bike on Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 10 am – 5 pm at Jack London Square. Some going on throughout the day include:
Handmade show featuring bikes and gear by Soulcraft, Inglis, Retrotec, Black Cat,...
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Grex // Weiner Kids // Alee Karim & the Science...
In just a few weeks we’ll be playing host once again to some great musical happenings (in keeping with the tradition, we suppose) at Swarm!
Saturday October 22, 9pm @ Swarm: Grex “Second Marriage” album release extravaganza with Weiner Kids and Alee Karim & the Science Fiction. $5 suggested donation, all ages, all fun times, and most certainly some refreshments. Do your...
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"Tall Tales" featured today on Hi-Fructose!
We can’t say we’re too suprised John Casey’s ambitious show, Tall Tales, was picked up this week by Hi-Fructose Magazine! The large-scale collaboration involving artists from all over the place (yeah, snail mail!) has garnered a lot of well-deserved attention only a week in to the show. If you haven’t already, come down soon and see the 70+ works for yourself (and check...
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Tall Tales opening madness
Classic: John Casey and Obi Kaufmann
We had a great turnout last night for the opening of John Casey’s Tall Tales and Jake Watling’s 4 Directions: International Blvd in the project space. Thanks to all 65 participating artists, the Trappist for pouring up good beer all night, and everyone who made their way down to the gallery to celebrate this huge show! More photos from the...
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Swarm takes over neighborhood newsletter
It seems only natural that ex-officio marketing person for the neighborhood, Svea (Swarm’s director), would take on the neighborhood newsletter, The Call!! Published by the Jack London District Association, the newsletter comes out every two months and features columns highlighting restaurants, events, news and the fine folks who live, work and play in the JLD!
Special thanks to Neven...
September 2011
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Artist T-shirt Sale!
ARTIST T-SHIRT SALE starting October 1st at Swarm. 15% off our four Oaklandish edition artist t-shirts featuring the work of John Casey, Jake Watling, Sarah Smith, and Terry Furry. Just in time for the opening of Tall Tales, featuring work by John Casey (and 40+ collaborators) and a multimedia installation by Jake Watling!