Heliotrope Prints
Swoon
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Artist:
Swoon
Title:
Alixa and Naima III
About the print:
Unsigned
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle 210gsm 50% rag watercolor paper
13″x19″ paper size
Hand numbered edition of 250
Embossed with the Heliotrope Foundation logo
Bio of the artist:
Working under the artist name Swoon, Callie is a classically trained visual artist and printmaker who has spent the last 13 years exploring the relationship between people and their built environment. Her first interventions in the urban landscape took the form of wheat-pasting portraits to the walls of cities around the world, a project that is still evolving.
From 2006 to 2009, she constructed and navigated a flotilla of sculptural rafts made from recycled materials down the Mississippi and Hudson rivers, and across the Adriatic Sea to Venice.
Since 2008, Callie has been working in collaboration with the collective Transformazium on a revitalization project in the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, giving a century-old church new life as an arts center and ceramics guild.
In 2010 she cofounded Konbit Shelter and built a community center and two homes in earthquake-devastated Haiti, integrating her creative process into a sustainable reconstruction effort.
Callie is currently working toward the construction of a musical house - entitled Dithyrambalina - in New Orleans, collaborating with arts initiative New Orleans Airlift.
Alongside her place-based work, she has a studio practice of drawing, printmaking, architectural sculpture and installations.
Callie’s work has been collected and shown internationally at galleries and museums, including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Sao Paolo Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
In 2015 The Heliotrope Foundation was started to support her ongoing work in Braddock, New Orleans, and Haiti.
www.heliotropefoundation.org
