Swoon



**Caledonia Dance Curry**, better known as **Swoon** , is a street artist who started her career in New York City, where she currently lives. She moved there from her home town in Daytona, Florida, so she could focus on school-- however, she quickly fell in love with the city and began working from there, creating prints and cut outs that eventually found their homes on walls ranging from New York to Europe.

Swoon often creates portraits of friends, family, and strangers. Her fascination with the emotional inner workings of cities and of people around her inspired the beautiful and often skeletal cutouts, drawings, and prints that are growing in number today. She creates her work in the hope that the pieces will catch people who see them-- in an interview with [|Walrus TV], Swoon describes the story of one piece in particular that a neighborhood block became attached too. A woman she'd never met explained how one of the people who on the block discovered the piece (of which the block began to call //The Secret//,) and how he'd brought others to see it, effectively creating a new connection between the neighbors. It is with stories and ideas like that in mind that Swoon creates, hoping to add to her surroundings with the mystery and beauty of her work.

**//Swimming Cities://** In 2006, Swoon, along with a group of other artists and performers, created a piece made almost entirely of found-junk. The group sailed first down the Mississippi, often making stops to perform and invite strangers onto their artistic boats to explore. In 2008, after having sailed the Mississippi twice, she and her fellow artists sailed the Hudson River, ending the experience with an installation at Deitch Studios in Long Island City.

This show is better known for having crashed the Venice Biennale a year later in 2009. The group, barred from the Grand Canal and uninvited to the Venice Biennale to begin with, pressed through anyways. From three to six in the morning the group performed and carried on as if nothing had held them back. They were well received by critics and attendants.

More of **//Swimming Cities//:**

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//Swimming Cities// info page: [|(Link)]

**More Pieces by Swoon**:



[|Girl] [|Woman] [|Embracing Couple][|Exhibition] [|Old Man] [|Little Boy] [|Man Laughing] [|Embracing Couple on Pillar] [|Skeletal Mermaid]

**Bibliography:** Landi, Ann "Taking it to the Street," //ARTnews// 109 (2010). Accessed April 3, 2011. []

Miranda, Carolina “A Two-Way Street,” //ARTnews// 107 (2008). Accessed April 3, 2011. []

Art in America. “Swoon's 'Swimming Cities' Crashes the Venice Biennale” Last modified August 3, 2009. []ing- cities-crashes-the-venice-biennale/