Swoon
Swoon is a Brooklyn-based street artist who creates life-sized portraits of people she meets, using woodcut block prints and paper cutouts. Swoon’s galleries are city walls, often in the environments that inspired the prints. A devout collaborator, she founded the Toyshop Collective and worked with them on poster campaigns, billboard alterations and sculptural installations. She recently inspired the Miss Rockaway Armada, a fleet of junk rafts on the Mississippi River piloted by artists and performers. Swoon’s next project is Braddock Active Arts, a large-scale community art center in an abandoned church in Braddock, PA, meant to catalyze sustainable community revitalization through art. For the past four years Swoon’s work has appeared in unlikely locales across the U.S., France, England, Mexico and Iraq. She has also shown at Art Basel Miami Beach, a 2005 solo exhibition at Deitch Projects, PS1’s Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Image:
Swoon
Miss Rockaway Armada, 2007
Screenprint on paper
15.5 x 19.5″ [39.5 x 49.5cm]
Edition of 85
