Marilu Swett

The sculptures of Marilu Swett mix biological and industrial forms to create objects unknown yet oddly familiar.

Swett works in a variety of sculptural media, including bronze and lead, and her cast forms create an interplay of air and weight. With some of her work, Swett teases the limits of casting with work so thin or so riddled with negative areas that the molten metal may destroy the form before it can take shape. Other times, the forms swell or pucker as though driven by an internal force..

Swett intends her work to be interpreted in more than one direction, and it has been called by critics “pleasingly ambiguous”, “endearingly awkward”, and possessing “a chilling hybrid quality”. Likewise, her drawings show overlapping layers of boldly drawn forms, which redefine one another and hint at an abstract narrative.

Marilu Swett lives and works in Jamaica Plain, MA. She has exhibited widely in the U.S.and has work in several corporate collections. She shows at Boston’s OH+T Gallery, and is a member of Boston Sculptors Gallery. A1997 Fellow in Sculpture from the New England Foundation for the Arts, she currently teaches at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA

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