Marc Swanson

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Marc Swanson (born in New Britton, Connecticut, US) is an artist based in Brooklyn.

Swanson received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

He has exhibited internationally in shows including The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London, No Big Cowboy Can Do The Little Things I Do at Julia Friedman Gallery in Chicago, God Bless The Children Of The Beast at Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm and Yes Bruce Nauman at Zwirner & Wirth in New York. He is represented by Bellwether Gallery in New York.

Killing Moon #3 is Swanson’s self-portrait, where he depicts himself as a Yeti in his lair in the boiler room of P.S. 1. “The idea was that I would be the Yeti and basically collect garbage for four-to-six weeks every night to make the installation. I had to reconcile the fact that I’m an educated artist who knows about formal issues and academia, and figure out what the Yeti would make instead—these more ritualistic objects. But the Yeti also collects things in the world and then puts them together to sort of make sense of the world around him. It dawned on me that I pretty much do the same thing: so I’m the yeti and the yeti is me.” ^[1]

With such untamed self-portraits and inscrutable dioramas—recreating eerie but significant forest environments in urban settings—Swanson’s work combines personal revelation with an emotional sense of melancholy. Swanson’s new work has him working intuitively, “building things up like a drawing or a painting and using a more formal language.” ^[1]