This is the 14th in an occasional series of posts featuring images of girls — and women — who grace our public spaces:
Dasic in Bushwick
Ben Angotti in Bushwick
Mexican artist Fusca and French artist Kazy in Bedford-Stuyvesant
Swoon in Red Hook
Ree2 and Teck1 in Washington Heights
Alice Mizrachi in the Rockaways
Photos: 1, 2 & 4 by Dani Reyes Mozeson; 3 & 5 by Lois Stavsky and 6 by Tara Murray
Note: StreetArtNYC will be on vacation through December 1. Follow what’s happening here in NYC on our Facebook page.
The following guest post is by Rachel Fawn Alban, a NYC-based photographer, arts educator and regular contributor to untapped cities.
Swoon‘s highly anticipated installation is now on exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, and it is a masterpiece.
Featuring a 60-foot tree with a trunk made from material colored with instant coffee, paint and fabric dye, Submerged Motherlands is at once beautiful and provocative.
At the tree’s base, a constructed environment has been assembled from sculpted boats and raft — and a gazebo with wasp nest and honeycomb detailing. Delicate paper cutouts, along with Swoon’s signature prints and drawings, are interspersed throughout the installation.
The prints include a few familiar characters from the artist’s lexicon, as well as some new ones. Among the most striking images are those which enhance the theme of motherlands: Swoon’s friend and her new baby and portraits of her mother’s life cycle.
All of these elements create an immersive, engaging and beautiful environment. And in a short video on view in the gallery space, Swoon describes the many processes involved in the creation of this epic work, including dying the tree fabric, transporting the boats and painting the rotunda walls using a fire extinguisher. Reflecting both societal and environmental issues, the remarkable Submerged Motherlands continues through August 24.
Upcoming events include tomorrow’s Members Family Day with Swoon and June 12th’s celebration with Swoon and her collaborators of the work on view through film, music and performance.
Photos by Rachel Fawn Alban
Currently on exhibit at Chelsea’s ArtNowNY is “Push It,” an exuberant show featuring works by over 20 female artists working in a remarkable range of expressive modes. Fresh new talents are showcased alongside legendary artists — many with roots in graffiti and street art. Here’s a sampling of works by six artists who consistently share their visions with us in public spaces:
Swoon
Elle
Lady Pink
Lady Aiko
Alice Mizrachi
Vexta, close-up
Maya Hayuk
Curated by Melissa McCaig-Welles, the exhibit continues through April 26 at ArtNowNY, 548 West 28th Street in Chelsea’s gallery district.
Images of artwork by Dani Reyes Mozeson, Lois Stavsky and City-as-School intern Dea Sumrall
Working together with Groundswell teens who had been affected by Hurricane Sandy, Swoon has been busy gracing the famed wall at Bowery and Houston with an elegant Sandy-themed mural. The mural’s official unveiling takes place tomorrow, Tuesday, October 29th. Here are some images of the work in progress:
Neenee
Another close-up
Groundswell youth at work
The mural as seen on Thursday
Photos 4 and 5 by Tara Murray; all others by Dani Reyes Mozeson
This is the ninth in a series of posts featuring images of girls — and women — who grace New York City’s public spaces:
Alice Mizrachi aka AM in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Cake in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Hef’s hastily-buffed piece in East New York
Toofly at the Bushwick Collective
Os Gemeos in Coney Island — since 2005
Noh J Coley at the Woodward Gallery Project Space on the Lower East Side
Swoon in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn garden
Photos by Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky
