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findarticles.com - Erick Swenson at Angstrom by Charles Dee Mitchell
On an August night with temperatures still in the upper 80s, an overflow crowd at Erick Swenson's opening stood outside the gallery and picked snow from their hair and drinks. The snow was made of shredded plastic, but the effect was still eerily convincing and in keeping with the creepy, playful realism of Swenson's alpine exhibition titled "Obviously a Movie."


hammer.ucla.edu
For Texas artist Erick Swenson’s West Coast debut, the Hammer will exhibit an untitled sculpture of a young deer scraping the tender velvet from his antlers onto a resin cast of a large Oriental carpet. Using digital technology to scan the original carpet and an inkjet billboard printer, Swenson has painted the design and color onto the polyurethane resin cast. The room-size installation offers us a haunting juxtaposition of object and creature, both displaced from their original identities and place


jamescohan.com - Erick Swenson at James Cohan
Art in America, October 2004, by Edward Leffingwell

jamescohan.com - Erick Swenson: James Cohan Gallery
ArtForum, September 2004, by Meghan Dailey


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Erick Swenson UCLA Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood

artpace.org - Erick Swenson - About the Artist and Project
The room is dark. Spotlights fall on an oriental rug where a silent and unlikely struggle is taking place. Nuzzling its head against the Persian fibers (like one might expect a dog to) is a young buck. Its frame is frozen in time—fragile legs splayed and thin body taught with the effort of rubbing velvety fur off of its antlers.

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artlies.org - Erick Swenson by Micah J. Malone
In natural history museums, animals are presented in highly controlled, cliché circumstances: bears stand on their hind legs, birds sit calmly on perches and dinosaurs are often the main attraction because of their freakish scale and the wonder that surrounds their extinction.

gedgallery.com
Erick Swenson creates uncanny sculptural tableaux that feature strangely mutated animals in circumstances fraught with pathos. His untitled piece seen at the Hammer Museum in 2003 and at the Whitney Biennial the following year portrayed a young, hairless, and ethereally white deer rubbing the velvet from his antlers on a large Persian carpet. Both deer and carpet were cast in the same polyurethane resin and then painted and finished with a high degree of verisimilitude.