Swoon

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Swoon is a 29-year-old Brooklyn-based artist who draws from sources as diverse as German Expressionist woodblock prints and Indonesian shadow puppets. Nowhere is the public’s predominant attitude towards graffiti as an ugly and menacing urban presence challenged more deeply than in Swoon’s artistic output. Creating stunningly beautiful life-sized character studies from paper cut-outs, woodblock prints and linocuts, Swoon has been a breath of fresh air to the world of street art, bringing a deft feminine sensibility to bear on an ostensibly masculine scene. Represented in NY by the highly regarded Jeffrey Deitch at his Deitch Projects Gallery, Swoon has garnered huge critical acclaim for her installation shows. In 2006 MOMA purchased a number of works for their collection and last year Deitch chose Swoon to open his new gallery her beautiful show, Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea. Part of that show included seven boats, hand-built by Swoon and her friends, arriving down the Hudson river.