Signed and numbered in pencil.
Two Plate Etching with Screenprint
Swoon studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and began making street art in 1999. Inspired by both historical and folk art sources, ranging from German Expressionist wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, Swoon’s subjects are almost always people, chosen from the hubbub of the streets.
She singles out those characters who give cities their visual slang, but who often are taken for granted as part of the everyday fauna. A kid riding on a low-riding bicycle may go unnoticed. A man sitting on a milk crate doesn’t attract attention. Swoon retrieves them, for a moment, from the blur of the city. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move.
After sell-out shows across the United States and Europe and still in her 20s, examples of Swoon’s work have already been acquired by MOMA, New York and the Brooklyn Museum. |
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