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'''SWOON''' is a street artist from [[New York City]] who specializes in life-size [[wheatpaste]] prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon, real name '''Caledonia “Callie” Curry''', studied painting at the [[Pratt Institute]] in [[Brooklyn]] and started doing street art around 1999. Swoon is also a member of the [[Justseeds]] Artist Cooperative.
'''SWOON''' is a street artist from [[New York City]] who specializes in life-size [[wheatpaste]] prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon, real name '''Caledonia “Callie” Curry''', studied painting at the [[Pratt Institute]] in [[Brooklyn]] and started doing street art around 1999. Swoon is also a member of the [[Justseeds]] Artist Cooperative.


==Life and works==
==Life and works==
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[[Image:Swoon.JPG|thumb|right|Swoon in Berlin]]
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Swoon's worlds are often populated by realistically rendered cut-out street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping - these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from [[German Expressionist]] wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, Swoon uses cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets.
Swoon's worlds are often populated by realistically rendered cut-out street people, often her
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friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping - these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from [[German Expressionist]] wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, Swoon uses cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets.


Swoon's exhibitions and workshops in the United States and Europe have included collaborations with the art collectives, [[Glowlab]], Black Label, Change Agent, the Madagascar Institute and the Barnstormers. Her work was included in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Greater New York 2005, and appeared in Deitch Projects’ special design district space art Art Basel Miami 2005 and at [[MOMA]] and the [[Brooklyn Museum]] in 2006. In 2007 the Hui No'eau on Maui hosted Swoon under their visiting artist program wing of their internationally acclaimed Hui Press print studios. For two weeks she taught and collaborated with gifted Maui children in the creation of woodblock prints which they installed in the Hui No'eau gallery.<ref name="Swoon on Maui">Starr Begley, [http://www.mauitime.com/Articles-i-2007-08-23-174234.112113_For_a_Good_Time_Call.html "For a Good Time, Call…: New York street artist Swoon teaches her art to Maui youth,"] Mauitime August 23, 2007.</ref>
Swoon's exhibitions and workshops in the United States and Europe have included collaborations with the art collectives, [[Glowlab]], Black Label, Change Agent, the Madagascar Institute and the Barnstormers. Her work was included in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Greater New York 2005, and appeared in Deitch Projects’ special design district space art Art Basel Miami 2005 and at [[MOMA]] and the [[Brooklyn Museum]] in 2006. In 2007 the Hui No'eau on Maui hosted Swoon under their visiting artist program wing of their internationally acclaimed Hui Press print studios. For two weeks she taught and collaborated with gifted Maui children in the creation of woodblock prints which they installed in the Hui No'eau gallery.<ref name="Swoon on Maui">Starr Begley, [http://www.mauitime.com/Articles-i-2007-08-23-174234.112113_For_a_Good_Time_Call.html "For a Good Time, Call…: New York street artist Swoon teaches her art to Maui youth,"] Mauitime August 23, 2007.</ref>

Revision as of 08:32, 29 May 2010

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SWOON
Born
Caledonia "Callie" Curry
Nationality United States

SWOON is a street artist from New York City who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon, real name Caledonia “Callie” Curry, studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999. Swoon is also a member of the Justseeds Artist Cooperative.

Life and works

Swoon in Berlin

Swoon's worlds are often populated by realistically rendered cut-out street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping - these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from German Expressionist wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, Swoon uses cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets.

Swoon's exhibitions and workshops in the United States and Europe have included collaborations with the art collectives, Glowlab, Black Label, Change Agent, the Madagascar Institute and the Barnstormers. Her work was included in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Greater New York 2005, and appeared in Deitch Projects’ special design district space art Art Basel Miami 2005 and at MOMA and the Brooklyn Museum in 2006. In 2007 the Hui No'eau on Maui hosted Swoon under their visiting artist program wing of their internationally acclaimed Hui Press print studios. For two weeks she taught and collaborated with gifted Maui children in the creation of woodblock prints which they installed in the Hui No'eau gallery.[1]

Swoon is a founding member of the art collective the Miss Rockaway Armada[2] a group which built large rafts out of salvaged materials and floated them down the Mississippi River in 2006 and 2007.

In the summer of 2008 she presented a two-part exhibition with Deitch Projects called[3] Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea. It was a large installation inside the Deitch Studios space as well as a journey of seven handmade sculptural wooden rafts from Troy, NY down the Hudson River and up the East River in New York City to the Deitch Studios gallery. In the same year, Swoon was featured in Chiara Clemente's documentary "Our City Dreams".

Swoon and a crew of 30 crashed the 2009 Venice Biennale with "The Clutchess of Cuckoo," a performance project similar to the Miss Rockaway Armada and the Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea that sailed from Slovenia in boats made of New York City garbage, stopping at various points on the way to Certosa Island.[4][5] They "barnstormed" the Grand Canal at 3:00 a.m.[6]

Swoon pasted up works on various North Philadelphia buildings as part of Philagrafika 2010.[7][8]

Notes

  1. ^ Starr Begley, "For a Good Time, Call…: New York street artist Swoon teaches her art to Maui youth," Mauitime August 23, 2007.
  2. ^ The Miss Rockaway Armada
  3. ^ Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
  4. ^ Jacquelyn Lewis, "Swoon's 'Swimming Cities' Crashes the Venice Biennale" Art in America June 3, 2009.
  5. ^ Vanessa Grigoriadis, "Barging In to Venice," New York magazine June 7, 2009.
  6. ^ Porter Fox, "Explorer: An Artists’ Armada to Venice on Ancient Waterways,", New York Times Travel, August 23, 2009.
  7. ^ The Graphic Unconscious: Swoon at Philagrafika 2010, accessed March 1, 2010.
  8. ^ "Swoon in North Philly," photographs of the Philagrafika works on Citynoise.

Further reading

Video interviews

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