Alumni Gallery | Swoon
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The Brooklyn-based artist who calls herself Swoon is Pratt grad Caledonia Curry (B.F.A. Painting ’02) and is best known for pasting life-size prints and paper cutouts on walls in public spaces. This striking figure was left to decay on the outside of a Brooklyn building in 2005. The peeling figure affirms the ephemeral nature of the moment. An internationally recognized artist with major pieces in The Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, Swoon visited Haiti this year to teach sustainable building styles by helping to build earthquake-resistant community centers and housing as part of the Konbit Shelter project.
Š Courtesy of Abrams Books
PRATT INSTITUTE 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11205
Swoon, figural paper cut-out pasted on a wall in Brooklyn, 2005; right: same piece, decayed three months later.