Marc Swanson: The Other Side

The Baldwin Gallery is also pleased to announce their first show with Brooklyn-based artist Marc Swanson. Swanson uses diverse materials and creates works in varying media including sculpture, drawing, collage, photography, video and installation. Best known for his crystal-covered deer head sculptures and antler pieces, Swanson juxtaposes both ‘high’ and ‘low’ materials in order to explore the physical and spiritual duality inherent in his experience of masculinity. This exhibition runs concurrently with his solo museum show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston.
 
Raised in New England, Swanson moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s and began creating his pieces as a way to investigate his personal history. Swanson later went on to receive his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2004, and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine, in 2000. Swanson has held solo exhibitions in many major cities, including San Francisco, Chicago and New York and his work has been included in group exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Miami Art Museum and the Saatchi Gallery, London.