"The Beastiarium" Artist Talk

Join multimedia artists Swen Swihart-Decoster (he/him) and Adam Arquilla (they/them) on Oct. 18 at 7:30 for an artist talk about their collaborative exhibition “The Beastiarium”!

Both artists pull from the discipline of scientific illustration. Swihart-Decoster embroiders delicate representations of fungi and plants while Arquilla, working in ceramic sculpture and a wide range of painting techniques, binds animal parts together into strange, personal hybrids. They also draw from world mythology - large canvases include figures ranging from folkloric kobolds to the Greek serpent deity, Phanes, all drifting in and out of a thick haze. They appear alongside characters from the the inner worlds of the two creators, as well as intimate portraits that the artists painted of one another. According to Swihart-Decoster, it's an exhibition about "the duality of observing and being observed."