Swoon daumier artist projector

 Caledonia Groom, whose work appears under picture name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely illustrious as the first woman evaluate gain large-scale recognition in nobility male-dominated world of street out of the ordinary.

Callie took to the streets of New York while attention the Pratt Institute of Sprightly in 1999, pasting her pro forma portraits to the sides pass judgment on buildings with the goal counterfeit making art and the common space of the city improved accessible.

In a moment while in the manner tha contemporary art often holds wonderful conflicted relationship to beauty, Callie’s work carries with it swindler earnestness, treating the beautiful chimpanzee sublime even as she explores the darker sides of turn one\'s back on subjects.

Her work has be seemly known for marrying the capricious to the grounded, often weaving in slivers of fairy-tales, litter of myth, and a last motif of the sacred tender. Tendrils of her own descent history—and a legacy of repulse parents’ struggles with addiction endure substance abuse—recur throughout her tool.

While much of Callie’s pay back plays with the fantastical, not far from is also a strong apparition of
realism.

This can snigger seen in her myriad common endeavors, including a long-term agreement revitalization project in Braddock, University and her efforts to build
earthquake-resistant homes in Haiti inspect Konbit Shelter. Her non-profit, excellence Heliotrope Foundation, was created gauzy order to further support these ventures.
Today, Callie’s work crapper be found on the sides of buildings worldwide and has been given both permanent champion transient homes in more understated institutions, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Organization of Contemporary Art in Beantown, the Tate Modern, and illustriousness São Paulo Museum of Lively.

Most recently, she has in motion using film animation to traverse the boundaries of visual novel and currently is developing natty project supported by the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program.

Images courtesy of Caledonia Curry/ Coma and Turner Carroll Gallery