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Swoon

Swoon is a Brooklyn based artist known for her large-scale installations and life sized woodblock and cut paper portraits of everyday people. Through these works of art she hoped to highlight the human element of urban living.  Usually the works are posted on abandoned buildings, bridges, fire escapes, water towers, and street signs.


Swoon believes art is an immersive, provocative, and transformative experience for its participants. Her aesthetics can be seen as an outgrowth of street art. She uses scavenged and local materials and embraces print media as method of action for social change.

Born 1977
Hometown New London, CT
Lives and Works Brooklyn, NY
Education
BA Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Permanent Collection

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Tudor investments art collection, Greenwich, CT

Representing Galleries

Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Articles

IFPDA Print Fair Preview - An Interview with Tandem Press
IFPDA Print Fair Preview - An Interview with Tandem Press

This highly respected Madison, Wisconsin, print publisher, studio space and gallery produces high quality prints with Mickalene Thomas, Derrick Adams, Lynda Benglis, and Sam Gilliam among others. Curator Sona Pastel-Daneshgar tells us more

Ten Great Causes Over Ten Great Years
Ten Great Causes Over Ten Great Years

To mark our first decade we look back at some of the nonprofits and charities we've worked with who make the world better for all

5 Great Pieces To Bid On in the Together In Distance Auction
5 Great Pieces To Bid On in the Together In Distance Auction

Bidding begins today on 100 pieces by blue chip and emerging artists including Ai Weiwei, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Takashi Murakami, Shantell Martin, Ellen Berkenblit and SWOON

'Paper Monuments' Replaces New Orleans' Confederate Monuments
'Paper Monuments' Replaces New Orleans' Confederate Monuments

New Orleans' public art and publication project reconsiders what public monuments represent—both symbolically and aesthetically. Here, we talk to the project's director to discuss visual storytelling in the Big Easy.

Take the Street Art Quiz
Take the Street Art Quiz

Identifying art in a museum easy—just read the wall text! But out in public, identifying graffiti requires some street smarts.

A Guide to Detroit's Hottest Art Galleries
A Guide to Detroit's Hottest Art Galleries

Here are 8 galleries—from young artist-run project spaces to big commercial enterprises—that make Detroit a not-to-miss art destination.

10 Art Documentaries to Binge Watch
10 Art Documentaries to Binge Watch

In time for the holiday season, we’ve scoured Netflix and Amazon Prime for the best art docs to watch as the tryptophan/eggnog/accidental snake venom takes over.

10 of Art History's Most Important Defunct Galleries
10 of Art History's Most Important Defunct Galleries

We surveyed a few galleries from throughout the past century that made revolutionary contributions to art, only to fade away.

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