Marc Swanson, Untitled (Crystal Antler Trio)

Marc Swanson
Untitled (Crystal Antler Trio)
2012
Antlers, crystals, chain and adhesive
53 x 9 x 8 inches (134.62 x 22.86 x 20.32 cm)

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by APT

About the Artwork

Executed in 2012, Mark Swanson’s Untitled (Crystal Antler Trio) consists of a set of three crystal encrusted deer antlers interlocked with one another in which each antler hangs from a delicate metal chain coiled around the base of the antler. The juxtaposition of the naturally-shed antlers with crystals and silver chains in this piece is characteristic of Swanson’s ouevre. This stylish juxtaposition of crystals and stag heads stems largely from the artist’s personal history as a means of exploring the duality of identities he experienced in his childhood in a small New England town as the son of an ex-marine and devoted hunter and during his experience as a member of San Francisco’s gay community.

About the Artist

Marc Swanson (b. 1969 in New Britain, CT) received an MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions include Sorrow in Sunlight, Basilica Hudson Back Gallery, Hudson, New York (2016), Chambre, in collaboration with Jack Ferver, American Dance Institute, Rockville, Maryland (2015), The House is Open, Bard College Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2014), New/Now, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT and Two Alike, collaboration with Jack Ferver, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA (2012).

Recent group exhibitions include Modern Menageries, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (2016), Testing Testing, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, The Triumph of Love, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (2015), Midnight Party, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN (2014).