Swoon Exhibition Catalogue

Swoon Exhibition Catalogue The Taubman Museum of Art is pleased to present the powerful and thought-provoking exhibition, Swoon, featuring the work of renowned contemporary artist Caledonia Curry/Swoon. Her art explores timely and complex issues, from personal and collective trauma to the power of art to heal and unite people during turbulent times. Striking, contemplative, and inspirational, her work is a powerful reminder of the potential for transformation that lies within us all. Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Curry took to the streets of New York while attending the Pratt Institute of Art in 1999, pasting her intricate 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, Curry’s work carrie