August 10, 2010
For Immediate Release

Casting Off: Drawings in 2D and 3D
New work by Marilu Swett

Sept. 1 – Oct. 3, 2010
First Friday Receptions: Sept. 10 and Oct. 1, 2010 from 5 – 8 pm
Gallery Hours: Wed. – Sun. 12 – 6 pm
South End Open Studios Hours: Sept. 25 – 26, 11 am – 6pm

Boston, MA: For her exhibition Casting Off,  Marilu Swett shows work in the dual areas of sculpture and drawing, and her insistent merger of the two. Tackling the idea of making sculptural drawings head on, Swett has cut, collaged, bound, modeled, hung, layered, carved, cast and recast a variety of materials to produce three-layer drawings in cast translucent rubber, sparkly drawings of recycled roofing rubber, and suspended drawn forms in cast bronze. The work remains abstract, but merges the layered space of her ink drawings with the factual space occupied by sculpture.

Swett’s recent work reflects her interest in biological form and its means of investigation, its volume, complexity and variety. She indicates this in a general and fanciful way, by abstracting, inventing, and drawing relationships among forms using translucent overlap, to indicate space and slow movement. References include natural systems and subsystems, microscopic, telluric and oceanic forms, and images from the human body.

Any creeping references to benthic inhabitants are to be blamed on her husband, an environmental scientist and segmented worm enthusiast, and his acolyte, their son Jonah.

Swett’s work can also be seen this month in Seeing Science: Where Art and Science Meet at Curry College, Milton; and in Agriculture encounters Sculpture, an invitational outdoor exhibition at Allandale Farm in Brookline, MA. Swett has been a member of Boston Sculptors Gallery since 2004.

Thanks to the faculty development fund, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, for help with this exhibit.

Swett’s work will be shown concurrently with Bone Pickers by Charles Jones.

Contact:

Jean Mineo, Director
BostonSculptors@yahoo.com
617-482-7781
www.bostonsculptors.com

Marilu Swett
mlswett@verizon.net
617-524-6215