“Lil SWIM” Featuring 68 Artists Curated by Yarrow Slaps and Auguste Somers

curatorSWIM TeamlocationLuggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Streetdate5/12/2017

Opening Reception : Friday, May 12th 2017

Time:    7 – 10pm

Dates: May 12 – June 17, 2017

 

The Luggage Store is excited and proud to feature, œLil SWIM,  curated by Yarrow Slaps and Auguste Somers of the artist collective SWIM Team. SWIM was founded in 2013 to bring artists and and other creative people together to connect and collaborate, and first participated in the Luggage Store’s “Short Cuts” program, a mentoring program for young artists predominantly of color.

Swim  has since grown and expanded into a dynamic network of mostly young artists who make art, clothing, music.  Swim releases limited edition clothing, runs a blog and drops mix tapes; and they have also gained curatorial experience in the past four years.

œLil SWIM is the SWIM Team™s most ambitious exhibition to date, featuring 68 artists, most of the artists they have ever wanted to show in one exhibition.  Some established artists that Slaps and Somers  have known for years such as Retna, Swoon, Os Gemeos, Lydia Fong  will be featured along with and many younger more emerging artists and lesser known artists such as Kezia Harrell, Diego Diego, Sachi Moskowitz and Adrian Mangel.

Slaps and Somers spent the past year and half making studio visits and searching for artists via social media whose work they felt represented their aesthetics and who were authentic searching souls.

Swim has a tap on the art scene and what you will see May 12th is a predominantly group of young contemporary artists from SF and around the country, many whose work contain social commentary in a variety of artistic styles.

SWIM will release its first magazine (designed by Jonathon Freeman™s Cultured Visual Arts) in conjunction with the show at The Luggage Store. The magazine  is both a document of SWIM™s past and exciting new and current endeavors; which will be for sale at the show.

Slaps, a painter, rapper and curator is the son of LSG co founders Darryl Smith and Laurie Lazer and has curated shows in San Francsico, Sacramento and Los Angeles. He  has had solo exhibitions iin SF, LA, New York and Denmark; while August, an aspiring filmmaker and cultural critic is the son of Marsea Goldberg of New Image Art in Los Angeles.  Talented and motivated, they come from opposite coasts of California. They both grew up  breathing art.

Following is an alphabetical list of artists in Lil’ Swim!

Bagger 43

Cameron Amelia

Brett Amory

Apexer

Rafael Arana (Artbyraf)

Marcela Pardo Ariza

Erik Bender

Robin Birdd

Thomas Campbell

Tim Cohen

Michael Covington

Gangster Doodles

Marc Etherington

Pat Falco

Henry Fey

Kohshin Finley

Lydia Fong

Dustin Fosnot

Dont Fret

Soto Gang

Rabbit Garcia

Alex Gardner

Monica Kim Garza

Os Gemeos

Diego Groisman

Michelle Guintu

Henry Gunderson

Mariah GW

Justin Hager

Kezia Harrell

Chad Hasegawa

Terry Hoff

Jared Rush Jackson

Royal Jarmon

Malcolm Kenter

Dennis Kernohan

Olivia Krause

KRPSY

Asha Leisha

Lana Licata

Luke Pelletier & Kristen Liu-Wong

Clarence Lives

Adrian Mangel

Nathan McKee

Maxwell McMaster

Geri Montano

Sachi Moskowitz

Sean Newport

Yetunde Olagbaju

Sailor P00n

Rye Purvis

Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)

Remio

Retna

Charlie Roberts (Colonel Catfish)

Joe Roberts (LSD Worldpeace)

Ammon Rost

Curtis Talwst Santiago

Muzae Sesay

Jenny Sharaf

Yarrow Slaps

Tracey Snelling

Swoon

Tipi Thieves

Love Watts

Brittney Leeanne Williams

Natalie Yang

Sasha Zirulnik

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