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Swoon Phoenix

gamma — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:06 +0000

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Early Swoon Cutouts Survive

gamma — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:13:51 +0000

Photo by Sam Horine – f.trainer on Flickr. Sam says it may have been preserved by being behind a roll-up door. My guess is that the cutouts date from some time in 2003.

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Swoon Bony Mermaid Around the Corner

gamma — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:25:19 +0000

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Swoon – Bony Mermaid

gamma — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:36:55 +0000

Amidst the garbage. Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Keep an eye on the Miss Rockaway Armada, floating down the Mississippi.
They have a blog.
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Swoon – Bony Mermaid – Williamsburg

gamma — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:10:27 +0000

Swoon pasted these amazing cut-outs a couple of months ago. I saw a few photos show up on Flickr, but I hadn’t found any of them myself.

I wrote Swoon and told her how much I liked them. She replied: “thanks, glad you like the bony mermaid, i was in florida when i made that, out in the ocean swimming and the image showed up in my head in one piece so i just had to draw it. sometimes the strangest things…”
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Fellow Flickrite Luna Park clued me in on where in North Williamsburg to find this one. Thanks Luna.View Large

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Swoon’s first NY Solo Exhibition

gamma — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:05:39 +0000

July 07 — August 13, 2005
Deitch Gallery
76 Grand Street, New York
Opening 7 PM, Thursday, July 7.
The first New York solo exhibition by SWOON. Turning the 76 Grand Street gallery into a ramshackle labyrinthine city of paper and paint, SWOON will be producing her most ambitious installation to date.

For this exhibition, SWOON will be transforming both the faï¿½ade and the interior of the gallery into a handmade cityscape full of hidden corners to discover. Taking Kawloon Walled City as a creative point of departure, she hopes to evoke the spontaneous, unregulated, and often dangerous development that took place in the autonomous Hong Kong slum before it was bulldozed in 1993. Reproducing rooms upon rooms, illegal balconies, and unregulated creativity will fill this exhibition, as will dramatic cutouts of scaffolding, power lines, elevated trains, and all the imposing infrastructure of the city.

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Wing Goddess

gamma — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:21:45 +0000

New Swoon print done in her original cutout style. Front and Jay Street, Brooklyn, beneath the Manhattan Bridge.

All sorts of winged insects are here, moths, dragonflies, grasshoppers. I think of these style Swoon pieces as goddesses. This one seems to be gesturing "Stop." Could it have been put up in conjunction with Earth Day? Van Brunt near Beard Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Detail. Click photo for a larger version.

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Swoon

gamma — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:38:18 +0000

Swoon cutout on Attorney Street. Lower East Side.

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More Swoon

gamma — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:35:52 +0000

I need to take a photo exploration of Williamsburg street art. Here’s one I saw on Monday evening, shot with my camera’s flash. The artist is Swoon. Her group is the Toyshop Collective. I’ve collected all my Swoon photos on this page.

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Paper Cut-Outs

gamma — Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:55:05 +0000

Paper cut-outs on a black door. It’s a different technique than normally done by Swoon. The black interior areas are either printed or drawn-on, instead of cut-out. I’m not sure if it is Swoon or another artist.(I later confirmed that it was Swoon)

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