Pet Peeve, Marilu Swett
Black humor, longing, and regret are at play in Jessica Straus’s exhibition Packing for Mars, on view at Boston Sculptors while Marilu Swett’s Off Center, mines a similar vein in an abstract modality.
In response to this state of off-centeredness, Swett has created a series of off-balance, often humorous abstract mixed media sculpture, using materials including plaster, wood, and foam. Rapid shifts in contemporary culture, communication and concern for the planet can create dissonance, a dissonance that increases as changes are more deeply felt. This can throw a person off center
Straus looks forward with dread to a future when humans must flee a devastated Earth to settle on far flung, arid ... view more »
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