Swoon

Artist: Swoon Title: Amanda About the print: UnsignedArchival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle 210gsm 50% rag watercolor paper13″x19″ paper size Hand numbered edition of 250 Embossed with the Heliotrope Foundation logo  About the Artist: Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Callie took to the streets of New York while attending the Pratt Institute of Art in 1999, pasting her paper portraits to the sides of buildings with the goal of making art and the public space of the city more accessible. In a moment when contemporary art often holds a conflicted relationship to beauty, Callie’s work carries with it an earnestness, treating the beautiful as sublime even as she explores the darker sides of her subjects. Her work has become known for marrying the whimsical to the grounded, often weaving in slivers of fairy-tales, scraps of myth,