Artwork Description
Swoon – Cairo
Dimensions: 15.5 x 11.5″ finished size
Year: 2020
Medium: silkscreen and hand painting on handmade dyed cotton pulp paper
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.