Marc Swanson (b. 1969, American) works in diverse media including sculpture, drawing, video, photography, and installation. He often juxtaposes "high" and "low" materials in a single work and integrates elements of wood, glass, textile, naturally shed animal antlers, and precious metals, such as in this work, commissioned for the Peter Norton Christmas Project.* Drawing on a personal history of growing up in a military family and belonging to the gay club scene and counterculture, the artist has been called an alchemist for his ability to recast an aesthetic and cultural connotations into visceral, highly personal narratives.
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections