Video: Swoon Presents Her Street Art at MoMA – Part 2
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Video Clip About Swoon
Excellent video clip that looks at the evolving street art of the artist Swoon in the Lower East Side of New York City.
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The Story of “The Splasher”
Since late autumn 2006, around the time of the final, great explosion of street art at 11 Spring St. in Nolita, in downtown New York City, we started to notice that a lot of work by some well-known street artists was suddenly being defaced with splashes of paint. Works by Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Faile and many others were attacked with bright colors of paint that appeared to have been intentionally splashed on to the work. The paint never covered the pieces completely — the underlying art was always identifiable. The mysterious person(s) defacing the art was dubbed “The Splasher.” The atttacks continued through the winter and spring months that followed. Only recently have we noticed that “The Splasher” has slowed down.
New York Magazine chronicles and investigates the mystery in
a recent article. The irony of the Splasher’s attacks is that they amount to a form of vandalism upon vandalism itself. Most street art is destruction of property in the eyes of the law. The paint splashes can also, as some have pointed out, be construed as an act of art in and of itself, as a crude, shocking commentary upon the street art it targets.
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On the iPod: The Rakes – “22 Grand Job”
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Swoon on Rivington St., Lower East Side, NYC
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Photo gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
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Detail – Swoon on Rivington St., Lower East Side, NYC
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Kicks on our feet: Vans Camoflage Slip-ons
On the iPod: OK Go – “MIllion Ways”
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Street Artist Swoon Hits Rivington St. – No. 1
Here’s a color image of the new Rivington St. work by street artist Swoon. The photo was shot at night, hence the yellow-orange tint to the image.
Background Note
There’s some fresh work by the artist Swoon on Rivington St., between Bowery and Chrystie, in that interzone between Nolita/Soho and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Brooklyn-based Swoon is our favorite New York street artist. This work, which depicts an African-American boy with first pumped, continues Swoon’s series of life-size cut-out wheat-paste images of people engaged in everyday activities on the streets of the city.
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Street Artist Swoon Hit Rivington St. – No. 2
There’s some fresh work by the artist Swoon on Rivington St., between Bowery and Chrystie, in that interzone between Nolita/Soho and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Brooklyn-based Swoon is our favorite New York street artist. This work, which depicts an African-American boy with first pumped, continues Swoon’s series of life-size cut-out wheat-paste images of people engaged in everyday activities on the streets of the city.
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Triple Threat – NYC Street Art Mash-up
Here we’ve got the work of several street artists and writers, including that of a couple of the underground’s brightest stars – Shepard Fairey and Swoon. Here’s the breakdown: The black-and-white motorcycle cop paste-up holding the Andre the Giant icon is the work of Shephard Fairey (of Obey / Giant Has a Posse, Swindle Magazine, etc.). The wheat-paste paper cut-out of the man on the bicycle is by Brooklyn artist Swoon. Underneath are some wheate-paste cut outs and tags of several other artists and writers. Nice to all this work serendepitously aggregated in one location in downtown Manhattan.
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