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Swoon<br />
Swoon is a notable American street artist, who has contributed to the Pop Art<br />
movement. She was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1977, and raised in<br />
Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1997, Swoon moved to New York, where she<br />
obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.<br />
Swoon’s signature works include life-size human forms that she creates from<br />
recycled newsprint paper. It takes her weeks to paint and cut out each figure<br />
in her studio, and once the forms are complete, she takes them to the streets<br />
of New York and glues them to the side of buildings using wheat paste. When<br />
Swoon first began creating street art, she focused her energy on things that<br />
were meant to disappear and her ability to let them go. The creations are not as<br />
permanent as spray paint, but they stay around for a long time. The artworks<br />
eventually either flake or rot away. In order to find a spot to hang her works of<br />
art, Swoon rides around the streets of New York looking for appropriate places.<br />
Once she locates a space that is large enough and that receives a lot of visibility,<br />
she hangs the art alone. You can find her creations on trash cans, light poles,<br />
walls, doors, rooftops, and sidewalks within the city of New York. The figures<br />
have gained critical acclaim.<br />
Swoon<br />
Neenee, Braddock<br />
Linoleum print with hand painting<br />
64 230 x 223.5 cm I 90.6 x 88 in<br />
65
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