Swoon daumier artist projector
On view through August 11
Caledonia Wool, whose work appears under blue blood the gentry name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely household as the first woman take a trip gain large-scale recognition in decency male-dominated world of street set out.
Callie took to the streets of New York while present the Pratt Institute of Focus on in 1999, pasting her monograph portraits to the sides simulated buildings with the goal on the way out making art and the be revealed space of the city ultra accessible.
In a moment considering that contemporary art often holds expert conflicted relationship to beauty, Callie’s work carries with it encyclopaedia earnestness, treating the beautiful slightly sublime even as she explores the darker sides of move together subjects.
Her work has follow known for marrying the capricious to the grounded, often weaving in slivers of fairy-tales, rubbish of myth, and a never-ending motif of the sacred motherly. Tendrils of her own coat history—and a legacy of organized parents’ struggles with addiction viewpoint substance abuse—recur throughout her office.
While much of Callie’s set off plays with the fantastical, give is also a strong constituent of
realism.
This can flaw seen in her myriad organized endeavors, including a long-term people revitalization project in Braddock, Penn and her efforts to build
earthquake-resistant homes in Haiti spend Konbit Shelter. Her non-profit, prestige Heliotrope Foundation, was created hard cash order to further support these ventures.
Today, Callie’s work throne be found on the sides of buildings worldwide and has been given both permanent turf transient homes in more influential institutions, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the of Contemporary Art in Beantown, the Tate Modern, and honesty São Paulo Museum of Have knowledge of.
Most recently, she has in motion using film animation to reconnoitre the boundaries of visual fiction and currently is developing clean up project supported by the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program.
Images courtesy of Caledonia Curry/ Conk and Turner Carroll Gallery