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 basically have a miniature art factory running 24/7 just beyond these white gallery walls.
The studios have been used to create a variety of projects, ranging from a traditional Indian bazaar to a weekend workshop for refugee youth artists to a series of still-life paintings of beautifully un-mundane household appliances.
Exciting new projects are ahead as we welcome painter Laura Basha and artist-of-many-trades Masako Miyazaki to the current artist roster. Masako has experimented in just about every medium—animation, monotype, sewing, to name a few—and has been influenced aesthetically from much time spent in Japan. She is also super-dedicated to her practice, as we see her face down here pretty much every time we come into work.
So you’re all officially invited: come down here and explore the studios, ask an artist about their work, be surprised about the amazingly cool stuff going on behind the scenes around here.
