Her memorial portrait of Silvia Elena Morales (2008), who was murdered in Juarez, Mexico, addressed the ongoing femicides that have claimed the lives of thousands of women in Mexico and Central America since 1993[36]. The interior and the facade of the gallery was transformed into a cityscape populated by intricate cut out figures and block-prints set within sculptural elements referencing truss-work, power-lines and elevated trains. (2011)[27]. Grano incollare è diventato un modo per lei di scoprire e capire il suo impatto nel mondo. Il pezzo è attualmente in mostra presso il Detroit Institute of Arts attraverso marzo 2017. La prima aggiudicazione registrata sul sito è un/a stampa-multiplo del 2008 da Dreweatts 1759, e la più recente un/a stampa-multiplo del 2020. At the 2009 Venice Biennale, she shocked and delighted visitors by navigating a flotilla of rafts, handcrafted from scavenged materials and garbage, into the city’s waterways.

A dicembre 2010, un centro comunitario e di una casa erano stati completati. The final performance was an illegal procession down the Grand Canal that began late at night, and ended as the sun rose[26]. 2020, Seven Contemplations, Albright-Knox Foundation, Buffalo, NY. Ha trovato divertente che tutti si aspettavano il suo essere un uomo. I only regret that [the boats] were disposed of in an irresponsible way. It costs you nothing to consign your artwork with us. While much of Callie’s art plays with the fantastical, there is also a strong element of realism. Questo momento ha colpito Swoon, dicendole che una piccola cosa può fare un'opportunità per la connessione e può ispirare la sensazione che forse c'è un altro mondo esistenti intorno a noi e che abbiamo solo bisogno di un cambiamento percezione per vederlo. Curry and the Heliotrope Foundation are currently working to pass the care of the building into new hands. Swoon’s first gallery projects were at the behest of art supremo Jeffrey Deitch. Konbit Shelter was founded in 2010, in response to the earthquake in Haiti killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed more than 250,000 homes.

Curry said, "the 80-year-old retired painters adopted me; they taught me how to paint. limited edition prints to an international collector base.

Ha incontrato una donna che le ha chiesto un piccolo pezzo d'arte che si era messo in un quartiere. Un gruppo di artisti, costruttori, architetti e ingegneri stanno lavorando per costruire strutture dal design creativo permanenti che utilizzano le tecniche di Super Adobe costruzione sacchetto di terra e architettura cupola. In 2011, Swoon, with co-founding members Jay Pennington, Taylor Shepard and Delaney Martin, developed the concept of musical architecture and invited 25 artists to create site-specific installations that would become the initial prototype and sound laboratory.

Sotheby's London,'Devolved Parliament',October 2019. Choosing to focus on the community building aspect of the project, Braddock Tiles began to work with an existing organization, the Braddock Youth Program, to create a job-readiness and soft skills program for youth ages 18- to 26-years-old, who had aged out of the youth program. Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. La donna cominciò a dirle che un uomo mentalmente disabile che viveva nel quartiere aveva iniziato a chiamarlo “The Secret” e che avrebbe preso le persone ad esso e mostrare loro.

A volte ritrae amici o parenti, colti in un significativo momento della loro storia personale, immortalando la loro anima spesso trasformata in allegoria.

She has been included in public art interventions including Santa’s Ghetto (2007), a clandestine installation on the West Bank barrier wall in Bethlehem, organized by Banksy[35]; Hecho en Oaxaca (2013), and indoor and outdoor exhibition of Street Art organized by Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Oaxaca; and Open Source (2015) a city-wide public art exhibition organized by Philadelphia Mural Arts, featuring the mural 5 Stories, created in tandem with arts therapy workshops with participants in the Mural Arts Restorative Justice Program[18]. Incide ritratti su linoleum, li stampa su Mylar, su carta riciclata o su carta da lucido, che una volta dipinta diventa pezzo unico. Non è stato fino alla sua allora-ragazzo aveva un sogno su loro due a fare graffiti e l'esecuzione da parte della polizia che ha ottenuto il nome Swoon. Volevano che “Swoon-guy” per venire a fare spettacoli nei loro quartieri. Per esempio, hanno giocato sul Canal Grande a 3:00 am Quando il gruppo finito i soldi, hanno usato i container come abitazioni.

Curry’s intention behind the memorial was “that we can see the face of Sylvia Elena, and recognize our connectedness with each of the thousands of women who have gone missing, with each of the family members who mourn the loss of their brightest light, and with a town in the shadow of the U.S. border, caught in a strangle hold of incomprehensible violence[36].”. After the initial run on Piety Street, the project entered an itinerant phase and created short-term performance installations in New Orleans City Park, Kiev, Ukraine and Shreveport, Louisiana.

Gli edifici utilizzano materiali poco costosi e localmente disponibili e sono destinate ad essere resistenti ai terremoti, uragani, inondazioni e incendi. The fact that no one died is basically a miracle, and if we had gone past Saint Louis where there are no locking dams with our boats, and our crew, and the culture we were building, it would’ve gotten really dangerous[26].”.

In 2014, Swoon became the first artist to show at the newly-opened Brooklyn Museum. Her non-profit, the Heliotrope Foundation, was created in order to further support these ventures. She is best known as one of the first women Street Artists to gain international recognition . 2019, Cicada, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, November 14 - February 1. Konbit Shelter has focused on creating meaningful work and well-paid jobs for local residents while collectively creating beautiful permanent architectural answers to the problem of rebuilding from disaster using new strategies with limited resources[29]. The piece was installed in 2012 at Benito Juarez Plaza, the place where Sylvia Elena is thought to have disappeared, four years after it was created because of delays caused by escalating violence. 2011, Murmuration, site-specific installation, Black Rat Projects, London, England, December 1 - December 24. Swoon cites her inspiration for the Miss Rockaway Armada on the Floating Neutrinos, a group of artists led by Poppa Neutrino, who lived communally on the water and successfully completed a trans-atlantic crossing on a hand-made junk raft in 1998[32]; as well as a long tradition of punk boat culture in the city of Minneapolis[26]. Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, 2017. 2012, Honeycomb, SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan, April 4 - May 20. 2011, Thekla, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, February 14 - March 5.

dal Martedì a Sabato, 11.30 - 19. The classes addressed the relationship between trauma, loss, addiction and mass incarceration.

The project was the last in a series of river-based projects founded or led by Swoon, which included Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (2008) on the Hudson River, and The Miss Rockaway Armada (2006-2007) on the Mississippi River. Konbit Shelter and Klub Obzevatwa are currently the flagship projects supported by Swoon’s Heliotrope Foundation. Swoon (born Caledonia Dance Curry in 1978) is a street artist who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures. Nel momento in cui frequentava il Pratt Institute, studia pittura. New Orleans Museum of Art, 2011 ; Detroit Institute of Art, 2016, Photographs: Sal Rodriguez, Caledonia Curry, Museum de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, ‘Hecho en Oaxaca’ group exhibition, 2013, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota Fine Art Gallery, Brandenton, Florida, 2013. Curry cites Dr. Gabor Mate, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, as someone who changed her perspective by helping her understand that addictions are a desperate attempt to soothe unmanageable pain[19]. 2019, Swoon: Every Portrait is a Vessel, Treason Gallery, Seattle, WA, April 4 - May 18. Since 2010, Konbit Shelter has completed a community center and three single-family homes, each designed and adapted with feedback from the community. Curry lavora con un collettivo di artisti con sede a Braddock , Pennsylvania , nota come Transformazium che fornisce le classi e le opportunità di apprendimento pratico. The campaign was successful.

The project dry docked at a restaurant and biker-bar called Ducky’s Lagoon in the Quad Cities when the weather became too cold to continue. He said, “Like the best work here, Swoon’s work doesn’t come out of academic critique; it comes from necessity and vision. Dopo alcuni anni, ha iniziato a ottenere il riconoscimento come Swoon. Curry returned to Philadelphia in 2018 to continue her harm-reduction advocacy with Philadelphia Mural Arts, Jessica Radovich, Heather Box, and Julian Mocine-Mcqueen. Swimming Cities of Serenissima was a fleet of sculptural junk rafts that crashed the 2009 Venice Biennale.

She received a classical Western education in both technique and career trajectory, which she viewed as too limited. Il processo richiede settimane per dipingere e tagliare ogni figura nel suo studio. Swoon ha iniziato la sua arte di strada nel 1999. Mettendo i ritratti per le strade che sta permettendo ad altri di testimoniare questa connessione e fare proprio. The program was held in the Bathhouse Ceramics Studio, located within the historic Braddock Carnegie Library. Lei è noto come un leader quando si lavora all'interno di collettivi. Si è trasferita al Borough Park sezione di Brooklyn , New York, quando aveva diciannove anni a studiare pittura presso il Pratt Institute . I funzionari sloveni in un primo momento ha tenuto i contenitori, da New York, nei costumi, non credendo erano pieni di spazzatura.

2018, Raggedy Hecate and the Memory Box, Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA, November 30 - February 8.