Swoon
By: [Caledonia Curry]
Publisher: Abrams; Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780810984851
Description: Artist Caledonia Curry is known as Swoon to admirers who follow her work on streets and in galleries all over the world. She is perhaps best known for the life-sized prints and figural paper cutouts she has pasted on walls for the past ten years, each portrait taking on a new life as it is slowly destroyed by the elements. Much of Swoon's work is like this - beautiful and powerful but ephemeral. Her projects are often grand in scope, requiring months of preparation and huge numbers of collaborators to make them a reality. And then they disappear. Deitch Projects owner Jeffrey Deitch provides an introduction to the artist and her work, and other contributors include: culture critic and curator Carlo McCormick, Nonsense NYC editor Jeff Stark, journalist and Toyshop-member Rollo Romig, gallery director Thomas Beale, and playwright LIsa D'Amour. Swoon herself writes the captios and an essay on her Miss Rockaway project.
Table of contents: title: Open dreams / Jeffrey Deitch; title: Swoon, noted in passing / Carlo McCormick; title: Making It / Jeff Stark; title: The Toyshop Collective : making people late / Rollo Romig; title: It floats! / Caledonia Curry; title: Psychic seeding / Thomas Beale; title: Serenades for Switchback sisters / Lisa D'Amour; title: Biography and exhibition history.