I love the idea of serendipitously finding tiny little pieces of life and art on random street corners. It’s kind of how I feel life is supposed to go.
I could be really punny here, but I won’t. Swoon, born Caledonia Curry, is a street artist who’s work is mainly portraits with a woodblock printing style, as well as cut paper installations…so, in short, she’s a badass. Juxtapoz magazine took a peek inside her studio as she’s prepping for MOCA’s Art in the Streets in LA, the “first major institutional retrospective of street art.”
As a side note, I would be ecstatic if my studio looked like that (at the moment, it’s a few spot lamps, a lot of messy tubes of paint, and a rug in the garage, but a girl can dream, right?).
In addition to studying Renaissance-style portraiture at Pratt, making life-size woodblock prints (which is a feat in itself), and having her work appear in the MOMA and the Brooklyn Museum, she and a crew of 30 members also managed to crash the 2009 Venice Biennale with a performance piece called The Swimming Cities of Serenissima. A fan of dumpster-diving for her materials, Swoon and her crew sailed from Slovenia in rafts made of NYC garbage to Certosa Island in the Venice Lagoon, and performed in Venice nightly. Clearly, you can see why I have a major ladycrush on this girl. (NY Magazine article found here.) Street art:
Cut paper installations:
*Swoon*… seriously.
Because life is a stage, why not wear a costume?
