Swoon was also invited for the Djerbahood project to paint on the island of Djerba in Tunisia. The American artist brought some of her signature pasters for the locals to enjoy. Brooklyn-based artist Swoon celebrates everyday people and explores social and environmental issues with her signature paper portraits and figurative installations. She is best known for…

While driving through Red Hook Brooklyn this afternoon I stumbled upon a new block and a half long wall pasted by the very busy these days (fresh off her show at the Brooklyn Museum and a bunch of new pieces in Bushwick Brooklyn) Swoon. Located in Red Hook Brooklyn on a wrap around block and a…

Brooklyn based street artist Swoon is in London and she pasted up one of her intricate large work in the East London area yesterday.Her work is often portraits of everyday people contrasted by both art and historical elements and this piece is no exception.Last time she visited London back in November 2010 she left 4…

The small town of Grottaglie, located in the high heel of the boot that is Italy, is admittedly not on most tourist itineraries. Yet thanks to the efforts of Studiocromie’s Angelo Milano and Fame Festival, the city has attracted some of the scene’s most talented artists.Swoon is currently in Grottaglie, where she dropped several new…

American artist Swoon has a new print available entitled “Mortimer And Jenkins”.This print is an edition of 45, it measures 21″ x 27″, printed on archival Hahnemuhle paper it comes signed and numbered by the artist. Available now HERE for $1000 each

This week, SAN travelled to Norway to bring you a visit from one of the most celebrated street art festival in the world aka NUART.Based on the West Coast, Stavanger, it has attracted some of the world’s finest artist over the past few years, from Swoon to Herakut, Roa, Blu, Herakut, Phlegm or David Choe, Nuart…

OUTSIDE IN is a celebratory and historical look at street art through the lens of the Museum of Contemporary Art‘s exhibition Art in the Streets.The film features Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Futura, Revok, Martha Cooper, Invader, Neckface, ESPO, RETNA to name a few.This video documents the artist’s creative process, their pitfalls with the law, the poetic…

Last night in London, Butterfly attended the opening of Swoon new solo show “Murmuration” at Black Rat Press.Presenting a new installation using mainly the same imagery that we’ve been seeing for a year since her MOCA installation, Swoon presented a nice setup for the Londoners so make sure to stop by if you are in…

We continue our Miami Art Basel 2011 coverage with another show, we stopped by The Underbelly Show earlier today to bring you some pictures.The secretive unaccessible “Urban Galleries” from NYC and more recently Paris were “recreated” in Miami for Art Basel 2011.The exhibition featured photos that documented the project and original works by a full…

Swoon is currently in UK where she will be spending the next two weeks preparing her new installation at Black Rat Press for her upcoming solo show this December.This new piece popped up on the streets of London recently and a couple more are gonna be appearing over the next few days. Pics by HookedBlog…