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SWOON
cLINT FISHER ART presents on on-going collection of exclusive Swoon photographs. All photoz taken by cFA in and around the NYC area. Featuring the outstanding paper cutouts and block prints of the artist Swoon. While at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she began taking her work to the streets in response to "the quiet, boring preciousness" of the gallery world.
"I don't feel they need to be kept in a vault as precious art."
"I never thought that the music called jazz was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic."
During the last three years I have been seeking and archiving as many Swoon pieces as I can shoot. I have always loved street art. New York City is in a constant state of flux; thriving with construction and deconstruction. I like to think of these scenes as urban intermissions. NYC is a haven for lovers of street art and has been the single largest world-wide influence of graffiti. Legends like Revs, Cost, Pez and female writers such as the legendary Pink, Abby and Lady Bug among others.
Today, we have progressed from strictly writers to the likes of Darius (Verb) and Downey hailing from Brooklyn and presently in London, who turn old street signs into sculptures and reorganize billboards. We have paste-ups from Faile and many others. But my personal favorite who stands out from all the rest is Swoon. Since I come from a Fine Arts background I tend to gravitate towards her figurative representation.
She has an amazing line quality and wears her heart on her sleeve. Her work is very honest and sincere, teeming with character. And if this wasn't enough - her pieces actually become a part of the landscape where she carefully chooses to place her work. Her choice of materials; usually newsprint- reflect and absorb the changing composition of decayed walls with eroding bricks or rusted steel. They are the perfect synthesis of industrial and organic. Its really quite a moment in time to come upon one of her rain stained pieces falling apart, arching away from a factory wall, reaching out like a vine, dropping as a dried leaf. A much welcomed presence of femininity in a cold, harsh industrial city.
Thanks for pouring out your heart onto my landscape...
Keep an eye on this space as the gallery will grow as I continue to discover more pieces...Without futher ado, please enjoy the exclusive clint fisher art Swoon gallery.
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