Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Her main focus is creating lifesized, cutout, wheat paste prints and paper cutouts of figures based upon people in her life. Swoon is a 31 year old female graffiti artist based in new york city. Now were turning our art club into an interview series in which we catch up with the artists and designers we admire and find out what drives. Street artist swoon on why her work can be girly and. The artist known as swoon has used a variety of mediums to create whimsical worlds and captivating portraits throughout her work, both for the street and the museum.
In 2015, after many successful projects, swoon has founded a nonprofit. In 1997, swoon moved to new york, where she obtained a ba in fine arts from the pratt institute in brooklyn, ny. Her art is inspired by both art historical and folk sources and largely based on the pictures as reference. Swoon urban artist, brooklyn, new york swoon print. Swoon is a street artist originally from daytona beach, florida. Swoon, real name caledonia dance curry, studied painting at the pratt institute in brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999. Swoon is known for her instantly recognizable lifesized wheatpaste prints all hand cut of highly detailed figures situated on walls and abandoned buildings in brooklyn and manhattan. The communal project, which could be seen openly by the public, is one attuned to swoons personal ideals.
Swoon has been creating street art in new york city since 1999. Street artist swoon, also known as caledonia curry, is one of the only female artist to have achieved success in both the fine art and graffiti worlds. Street artist swoon grew up in daytona beach, florida but moved to new york at age nineteen, following her creative aspirations. The artist swoon born 1977 is a mixed media artist who specializes in lifesize wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures.
Swoon believes art is an immersive, provocative, and. This first monograph on the street artist swoon is a crash course on the incredible range of her diverse artistic practices. Art has moved from the museum into the streets, with visionary artists using their creativity to convert the spaces of everyday life and, often, to address social and political issues. Swoon is a contemporary american street artist best known for her largescale wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts.
A chronological journey through the work and technical evolutions of this major street art artist. About installations projects currently in the studio street shop cv press media contact. Swoon, real name caledonia dance curry, recently partook in the djerbahood project, a popular street art scheme that sought to project an openair museum onto the island of djerba, situated slightly off the coast of tunisia. Street and installation artist swoon, aka caledonia dance curry b. For more information on the website, please check our about us section. Swoon breathes life into deserted detroit architecture.
Swoons worlds are often populated by realistically rendered and evocatively cutout street people, often her friends and family. Swoon is a nyc street artist who works predominantly paper cut outs and realistic, woodcut style of street people. In order to find a spot to hang her works of art, swoon rides around the streets of new york looking for appropriate places. Swoon is a street artist hailing from new york who is well known for her intricate and lifesize what paste prints and paper cut outs of figures based upon people in her life. Usually the works are posted on abandoned buildings, bridges, fire escapes, water towers, and street signs. Through these works of art she hoped to highlight the human element of urban living. Swoon is known for street art painting, installation, performance art. Callie took to the streets of new york while attending the pratt institute of art in 1999, pasting her paper portraits to the sides. It has 54 artist bios with information about what motivated them to become a street artist, and how their work has evolved. Delicate and ephemeral, the materials she uses allow for her work to continuously evolve through various stages of decay. All our content is geolocalized, so you can quickly discover main artistic trends from all over the world. Swoon is a brooklynbased street artist who creates lifesized portraits of people she meets, using woodcut block prints and paper cutouts. In 1997, swoon moved to new york, where she obtained a ba.
Its not like i dont do things because im worried that they would be perceived as normal, says swoon. With influences ranging from german expressionist wood block prints to indonesian shadow puppets, swoon is a master of using cut paper. Swoon is a convenient, secure, fun online store which provides quality makeup, skincare, tech and travel and gifting. Filled with brilliant color photographs, the book brings reader to streets around the world to see her lifesize prints and paper cutouts that transform as natural elements slowly erode and destroy them. When the 27yearold brooklyn street artist swoon had her first oneperson. How street artist swoon creates lifesize dreamlike worlds. She studied at the pratt institute in brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999 and largescale installations in 2005.
Today, we turn to seven stunning, intelligent books that examine street art from a variety of angles, from the artistic to the sociocultural to the political and beyond, to glean holistic understanding of the ubiquitous, important but often misunderstood medium for public dialogue and civic selfexpression. Though street art is still a boys club, women like elle, swoon and vexta are trying to change the status quo. Swoon installation at fine art print fair the new york times. These people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Art focus on brooklyn museum installation by the artist swoon. Swoon swoon swoon street art, i really like how bold and bright these images are, and that swoon uses woodcut as her primary inspiration. See more ideas about artist, street artists and street art. Caledonia curry, whose work appears under the name swoon, is a brooklynbased artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain largescale recognition in the maledominated world of street art. Street artist swoons work may be designed to fade away, but the trail it. My first interventions in the urban landscape took the form of wheatpasting portraits to the walls of cities around the world. Street artist swoon employs the architecture of a detroit vacuum cleaner factory to create a metaphor for the passage from life to death. Swoon instagram and website, swoon urban artist, brooklyn, new york street art, urban art auction news and results, official artist prints canvas and painting wanted by collectors, forum with discussions ranging from graffiti to contemporary art, the original banksy forum.
When the 27yearold brooklyn street artist swoon had her first oneperson gal. She studied painting at the pratt institute in brooklyn and inspired by her surroundings began to put up posters and stickers on city walls and billboards, altering existing advertising in an act of brandalism. Being an activist and humanitarian, swoons work reflects the social and environmental issues. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping. Swoon is a brooklynbased street artist famous for her lifesized woodblock and cutpaper portraits and her humanitarian projects in haiti. Though street art is still a boys club, women like elle, swoon and vexta are trying to change the status quo roland henry wed 7 jan 2015 14. Like i have to stop doing certain things that are comfortable in order to get uncomfortable, which is that really creative space. Swoon is a both humanitarian and artist who creates street art, installations, and sculptural assemblages in order to improve the world and make people happier and more content with their surroundings, both functionally and aesthetically. Vocabulary street art graffiti collage mixed media activism materials acrylic sheets cardstock can also be used permanent markers xacto. In his series building cuts, he went on location to buildings that were. Swoon, creates street art, installations, and sculptural assemblages.
Here you will find pictures, videos, and articles, classified by artists, and updated daily. Swoon, born caledonia curry, has been experimenting and challenging herself for almost 20 years. Swoons galleries are city walls, often in the environments that inspired the prints. Meet 20 of the most creative, original street artists from around the worldincluding banksy. Meet the women redefining street art art and design. Swoon is a street artist from new york city who specializes in lifesize wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Originally known for her street art, she studied at the pratt institute in brooklyn, receiving a ba in fine arts in 2002. For its first stop in europe, swoons traveling exhibition time capsule will be installed in the fluctuart showroom, the worlds first floating art center, a unique venue open to all the public. Swoon the street museum of art the street museum of art. Her adventures and team spirit are the makings of a family channel series for. Stencil graffiti street graphics street art in stencil graffiti, the first book to examine comprehensively this design phenomenon, tristan manco traces the history of stencil art and provides an exciting and thorough overview of the medium. Swoon is a brooklyn based artist known for her largescale installations and life sized woodblock and cut paper portraits of everyday people. Once she locates a space that is large enough and that receives a lot of visibility, she hangs the art alone.
I am a classically trained visual artist and printmaker, and for the last years i have been exploring the relationship between people and their built environment. Streetart appreciators and pedestrians alike have done more than just relate to her workthe panoply of lifesized figures has made swoon a legend in the streets of new york and as far afield as. She keeps her real name a mystery to avoid prosecution for vandalism crimes associated with her street art. Originally she believed her series of portraits would be a twomonth project but she has. She studied painting at the pratt institute in brooklyn and has traveled. How street artist swoon creates lifesize dreamlike worlds the verge. Swoon is a street artist who specializes in lifesize wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures. She moved to new york city at age nineteen, and specializes in lifesize wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Online museum shop of the national museum of women in the arts. This book is the second in a series published by graffito books.
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