Brooklyn-based artist Swoon celebrates everyday people and explores social and environmental issues with her signature paper portraits and figurative installations. She is best known for her large, intricately-cut prints wheat pasted to industrial buildings in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
For this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Swoon creates a site-specific installation in the rotunda gallery, transforming it into a fantastic landscape centering on a monumental sculptural tree with a constructed environment at its base, including sculpted boats and rafts, figurative prints and drawings, and cut paper foliage.
Often inspired by contemporary and historical events, Swoon engages with climate change in the installation as a response to the catastrophic Hurricane Sandy that struck the Atlantic Coast in 2012, and Doggerland, a landmass that once connected Great Britain and Europe and that was destroyed by a tsunami 8,000 years ago.

April 11–August 24, 2014
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 5th Floor
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/swoon/

New additions to the online store !

– a few copies of the new issue of VeryNearlyAlmost Magazine featuring Swoon (cover + 22-pages interview) :
http://www.galerielj.com/produit/swoon-vna-magazine-25/ 

– for the first time available in France, screen prints by Brazilian street artist Stephan “Calma” Doitschinoff :
http://www.galerielj.com/produit/stephan-doitschinoff-limited-edition-print-o-homem-apro/
http://www.galerielj.com/produit/stephan-doitschinoff-calma-limited-edition-print-jurema-preta/
http://www.galerielj.com/produit/stephan-doitschinoff-limited-edition-print-cisne/

All items also available at the gallery in Paris.

Discover a new vision of Swoon’s Motherlands exhibition thru the pictures of Sasha Bogojev aka saL, posted on Arrested Motion today !
http://arrestedmotion.com/2013/12/showing-swoon-motherlands-galerie-lj-paris/?images=1

Retrouvez sur notre “google map” interactive tous les collages réalisés par Swoon dans Paris (cliquez sur les points pour voir l’image) :
Find on our interactive “google map” Swoon’s paste ups in Paris (click on the dots to enlarge the picture) :
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zshO9G7bGUH8.kEyVYTL0GZms

Archive d’un interview vidéo de Swoon pour l’émission Tracks, tournée en 2007 dans notre précédent espace près de Beaubourg, à l’occasion de sa toute première exposition avec nous – à partir de la minute 05.43.

For Daily Verit and Radio Nova

Liz Gomis interviewed Swoon at the gallery during the set up of her new exhibition “Motherlands” (on view thru January 11th 2013).

Quelques lignes sur le contenu de l’exposition “Motherlands” de Swoon, dont le vernissage est le samedi 30 novembre.

Event facebook du vernissage

Swoon recently completed a piece in collaboration with Groundswell, on the famous Bowery Wall in New York (between Houston and Bowery). The piece is up for the next three months.
see the work in progress on Arrested Motion

As a response to the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy, Groundswell unveiled a series of murals addressing healing and recovery in New York City communities among the neighborhoods most affected by the storm. Groundswell youth artists, in partnership with Master Artist Swoon and Groundswell artists Yana Dimitrova, Angel Garcia, Jazmine Hayes, and Misha Tyutyunik, created a visual narrative that captures the concerns, hopes and overall spirits of these communities.

L’une des plus importantes expositions d’art urbain à ce jour en Amérique latine a été inaugurée le 5 juillet au  Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexique. Organisée par Pedro Alonzo (curateur adjoint au Institute of Contemporary Art de Boston), “Hecho en Oaxaca” présente les installations de Swoon, How & Nosm, MOMO, Saner, Retna, Date Farmers, Dr. Lakra, Stenlex, Lapiztola, Nunca, Yescka et Vhils. 16 espaces publics ont également été investi par les artistes avec le soutien du MACO et de la Maison de la Culture, dans les rues Macedonio Alcalá, Abasolo, Allende, Porfirio Diaz, Crespo et Matamoros. L’exposition au MACO dure 3 mois.

One of the most important street art exhibition in South America has opened at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico. Curated by Pedro Alonzo (ICA Boston), “Hecho en Oaxaca” shows site specific installations by Swoon, How & Nosm, MOMO, Saner, Retna, Date Farmers, Dr. Lakra, Stenlex, Lapiztola, Nunca, Yescka et Vhils. 16 public spaces have also been given to the artists.

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