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September Issue 2003
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by Loren Schwerd
Redux Contemporary Art Center is proud to present
Loren Schwerd's installation Flock from Sept. 5 to 26,
2003.
Schwerd grew up in the suburbs of New York City. She received
her BFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University and her MFA in Sculpture
from Syracuse University. Since moving to Charleston in 1999,
she has had solo exhibitions at the City Gallery, the Halsey Gallery,
and the Eyespy Gallery in Charleston, SC. She has participated
in many regional and national group exhibitions, such as Charleston
Now, at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston,
What's New Two, at the Spirit Square Galleries in Charlotte,
NC, the Summer Exhibition 2002, at the Grounds for Sculpture,
in Hamilton, NJ, and the 7th International Shoebox Sculpture
Traveling Exhibition.
Schwerd's commissions include Cloaks, a site-specific sculpture for the 2001 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, and Epitaph, a temporary 9/11 Memorial for the Savannah College of Art and Design. Schwerd currently teaches sculpture at the College of Charleston.
"The inspiration for Flock was born, like many of my ideas, at the bottom of a dumpster, says Schwerd. "The excessive quantity of fibrous materials I found, matched by its raw state and extreme colors, easily lent itself to a humorous struggle between nature and industry, which has been a lingering motif in my work. These absurd, sheep-like creatures suggest those animals whose lives and bodies are designed to achieve maximum and efficient production. They playfully ask us how far from nature are we willing to go?"
For more information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the center at 843/722-0697 or on the web
at (www.reduxstudios.org).
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