5. First Impressions…
• Kendell: I like the way the image blends in with the
background.
• Moh: Makes me feel warm inside. The way She uses
the wheat pasting is so articulate and detailed.
• Yeva: I need to see more images…
• Tenzin: I wouldn’t expect paper to make art like
this….It’s cut in different shapes and forms, creating
facial details and stuff. It’s interesting and
fascinating....also the locations.
Wheat paste
Newsprint
Linoleum
Paper Cuts
Collage
6. First Impressions…
• Nila: It’s realistic.
• Promia: It’s surreal, and it combines abstraction
with realism. It’s all expressed with less definition in
the design.
• Michael: Her artwork captures reality….sometimees
you may see these things,
• Artan: Brooklyn based, she makes sketchy art with
lots of lines.
• Katelyn: It’s really detailed art, that captures reality.
• Julio: Some of her artwork is illegal…some is not.
• Sakin: It’s very 2D how it’s done.
Wheat paste
Newsprint
Linoleum
Paper Cuts
Collage
8. Swoon is a NYC based artist who has caught the eye of the world
with her beautiful wheatpaste prints and cutout paper depictions of
everyday street scenes. Her life-size pieces, often of her friends,
family and neighbors, interact with their urban environment so well
it often seems the city streets would not be complete without them.
Switchback Sisters
2008
9. Swoon (1977- )
“When I first began to do street work, part of my impulse
had to do with those things that are meant to disappear
and the ability to just let things go. I use recycled newsprint
that I order in 90-pound rolls. It’s extremely thin and is one
of my favorite papers to use because of the way it decays.
It yellows. It cracks. It has this whole life cycle that I really
like.”
13. Swoon
“At first I was so
wound up about
being a woman in a
man's field that I
didn't want to talk
about it at all. I was
making art out on
the street, and no
one knew I was a
woman for at least a
year, maybe three.”
Buenos Aires, 2007
20. Swoon (1977- )
Swoon (American, b.1977) is a notable Street artist, who has
contributed to the STREET ART movement. She was born in New
London, CT, and raised in Daytona Beach, FL. The artist’s real name is
Caledonia Dance Curry. In 1997, Swoon moved to New York, where she
obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
21. “Street art had this kind of explosion recently. It’s
a healthy practice of a healthy city to have people
making things and putting them outside and
being a part of the visual creation of their
neighborhoods.”
2014 interview with NYTimes
“I always really struggled with how
to be who I was as an artist…My
relationship with image making is
that sometimes the only way to
move through something is to make
work on the subject.”
22. Swoon (Describe this artist as a PERSON)
Katelyn: She’s really into her art for the art.
Not anything else. She’s into it for her
passion.
Sakin: She follows her heart and believes in
herself.
Sarah: She takes her time, unlike other
artists who rush. She wants it to be perfect.
Ingrid: She wants her viewers to connect
socially/emotionally.
Prince: “Drawing is a way of her connecting
ideas and figuring out the unknown” She
considers what she sees and what it may
mean.
.
.
23. Swoon (Describe this artist as a PERSON)
Levy: She has a similar intent to other
street artists, to get her work out there.
Benz: Some of her work covers up other
street artists’ work.
Marco: She puts up the work and just lets
them do their thing. If they break apart,
that’s alright, she just puts them
somewhere else.
Dakota: She’s dedicated to her work and
doing it for the love of it. Just to share it
with people and bring people together.
Azalea: She’s humble. She doesn’t want to
be out there like a celebrity.
Adiba: Seems like she wants to capture
beautiful moments for others to enjoy.
24. Swoon’s upbringing was complicated at times, as her mother dealt with
alcoholism and drug addiction. Despite her mom’s explanation that she
“just liked getting high” Swoon learned as an adult that this addiction
(and most addiction) stems from pain and unresolved trauma. Swoon
worked hard to help her mom. She states:
“Because this particular addict was my mother, I had the incentive to
[find] the human being behind the nightmare, of letting go of the
disgust and blame, and seeing an incredibly wounded person in need
of our support. This is much harder to do when the person is a
stranger on the street, or in the prison system.”
Swoon’s mother passed
away in 2013 from lung
cancer. Though her memory
continues to shape Swoon’s
political views on mental
health care.
30. Miss Rockaway
Armada!
I lived briefly on a sailboat on the Amstel River in
the Netherlands, and something about that felt
very right. I saw the Viking ships in Norway and
wondered, “Why in all of the art museums I have
been to, have I not seen a form as beautiful, and
as imbued with force as this single wooden
ship?”
Slowly ideas of boats started to creep into my
work. There followed a few years of talking about
it, making little sketches and proposals until
finally, one day, in a kind of a meeting of the
minds with my friend Harrison (who I have
worked with on boats for four years now), the
plan to create the Miss Rockaway Armada
emerged.
35. Swoon at the Brooklyn Museum…
2014Brooklyn-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 her
large, intricately-cut
prints wheat pasted
to industrial buildings
in Brooklyn and
Manhattan.
36. Swoon at the Brooklyn Museum…
2014
For this exhibition,
Swoon creates a site-
specific installation in
our rotunda gallery,
transforming it into a
fantastic landscape
centering on a
monumental sculptural
tree with a constructed
environment at its
base, including sculpted
boats and rafts,
figurative prints and
drawings, and cut
paper foliage.
37. Why would an artist choose to
work across all these different
mediums?
Promia: Some types of artwork are best suited
for specific areas or surfaces.
Sarah: She wants to try different things out to
get a feel for what she’s best at.
Artan: Maybe she’s doing that to attract
different audiences? (“Demographics”)
Ingrid: ARTAN STOLE MY IDEA. I HATE HIM.
Prince: This could be a time-waster, trying out
so many things.
Adrianna: It could be tricky for other people
deciding what she “is.”
Danisa: This could affect her “brand” The
scratchy lines are obviously hers…but...
Promia: People COULD try to copy her style
(biters)
38. Why would an artist choose to
work across all these different
mediums?
Mattia: So they don’t get bored.
Jaylieen: So there’s variety in what her viewers
can see…there’s more things to enjoy about her
work.
Azalea: TOTES AGREE.
Christian: More exposure. Like the wHeat pastes,
everyone sees it…and in the museum, all the
“proper” people see it.
So ”Intellectual-Kendell” can see it.
Levy: Outside, everyone sees it, but in the
museum the “intelligensia” gets to see it.
Moh: Certain nieghborhoods are known for
different street art...but in museums, there’s
always good art.
Kristen: This “Good art” isn’t always cute or pretty
or whatever, but people find it “worthy” to be
39. Final thoughts on Swoon?
Tenzin: She’s very creative. She builds a lot of things,
like art, and boats.
Benz: I love that she built boats for other people and
was like the ‘admiral’ of these boats.
Gyaban: I like that she just runs with her ideas, so
strong willed, so focused. And she succeeds with
what she tries to do.
Tatiana: Her work is really imaginative, there’s all
these details in it that you don’t notice.
Daymoni: Her pieces seem really “free” and she puts
everything where it is for a reason…it may look
random, but it’s precise.
.
.
.
40. Final thoughts on Swoon?
Danisa: I like her more as a person than as an
artist.I’m not a fan of her drawings, they’re a bit
boring to me even though there’s a lot going on.
There’s not much behind her images.
Ingrid: Like she said with “The Secret” bringing
people together. I feel like she’s trying to share
meaning with people.
Adrianna: I like her work. I think what she’s doing is
making a good name for street artists. It’s not just
bubble letters or throw ups or tags.
Michael: I LOVE her style, the skechiness of it. ALSO,
she puts EMOTION into it….taking her personal life
and putting it into her work.
.
.
.
41. BTM Crew
Big Time Mafia / Bout That Money / Big Time Mobb / Broadening The
Movement
Crewmember: Katsu
“My fake videos were all about the
resourcefulness of graffiti writers.
Graffiti writers make their tools,
they make their stickers and pens and
create everything from scratch. I
thought, “Why not put my After
Effects skills to use?”
Video located at:
http://viralart.vandalog.com
/read/chapter/an-interview-
with-katsu/
42. BTM Crew
Big Time Mafia / Bout That Money / Big Time Mobb / Broadening The
Movement
Crewmember: Katsu
Gyaban: I thought he was OG. I
thought it was real.
Kendell: um…I....am hungry.
Moh: I’m disappointed that he’s
fake. All other artists are real.....
Tenzin: He’s creative in making
these videos
Daymoni: I’m somewhat
disappointed...I wanted to know
why but it’s not real....
.
Video located at:
http://viralart.vandalog.com
/read/chapter/an-interview-
with-katsu/
43. BTM Crew
Big Time Mafia / Bout That Money / Big Time Mobb / Broadening The
Movement
Crewmember: Katsu
Katelyn: I was just so shocked that
he would have the courage to do
this.
Danisa: I saw the black rectangle,
but I thought it was there to cover
the spray paint logo.
Conservation / restoration
Video located at:
http://viralart.vandalog.com
/read/chapter/an-interview-
with-katsu/
44. BTM Crew
Big Time Mafia / Bout That Money / Big Time Mobb / Broadening The
Movement
Crewmember: Katsu
Katsu’s “Single Stroke Skull”
began in the late 1990s
45. BTM Crew
Big Time Mafia / Bout That Money / Big Time Mobb / Broadening The
Movement
Crewmember: HITOP
Crewmember: BLAKE Crewmember: Gusto
Crewmember: Malvo
Also…
Apathy
Kerse
And MORE!
46. Location Survey
Take out a sheet of paper and write…
•Your Name
•Your Borough
•Your Neighborhood
(name the cross streets if you don’t know the precise Nabe-Name)
58. First
Impressions
of….
Lady Pink
(Sandra
Fabara)
• Katelyn: It would attract your attention if you were walking by
• Ingrid: Oppression (chain on her neck)
• Danisa: There’s breasts that are exposed, the Statue of Liberty crown and
cowboy boots.
• Sakin: Her work seems mocking and disrespectful to NYC.
• Prince: I don’t think it’s disrespectful….If it was NYC, the woman would be
wearing Tim’s.
• Nita: The crown is NYC specific.....
• Promia: It’s kind of ironic that the lady is wearing all these things
associated with the south (but also nyc?)
• Sarah: Maybe the artist isn’t from NYC? And she’s criticizing new york?
• Adrianna: What if she’s just saying America in general????
• .
59. First
Impressions
of….
Lady Pink
(Sandra
Fabara)
• Benz: Chaotic. Like the wavy pink one is colorful and dynamic.
• Yeva: Detailed, pink and exotic. It’s all over the place, the woman is
underdressed (exotic/erotic)
• Jenn: Weird. The second one I like though. There’s brick walls on it, and
flowy and smooth.
• Mattia: Cartoony, a pink statue of liberty.
• Adiba: It’s bold coloring. The second one reminds me of a parallel world,
like the little girl in the picture has a sassy look.
• Marco: There’s a monkey holding her on the chain, it represents
something but I don’t know what.
• Kendell: The food she’s holding the first one, like she’s serving
someone. And in the second one, you see a lot of different things to
focus in on.
63. Lady Pink
(Sandra Fabara)
Lady Pink was born in in 1964 Ecuador,
but raised in NYC. In 1979 she started
writing graffiti and soon was well
known as the only female capable of
competing with the boys in the graffiti
subculture. Pink painted subway trains
from the years 1979-1985. She has
been featured in documentaries such
as "Wild Style,” and is often credited
as making significant contributions to
graffiti and hip-hop subculture.
67. Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara)
While still in high school she was
already exhibiting paintings in art
galleries, and these days she is
represented by Woodward Gallery
on (Eldridge and Delancy) .
As a leading participant in the rise of
graffiti-based art, Lady Pink's
canvases have entered important art
collections such as those of the
Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan,
the Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del
Barrio and several international
museums too.
68. Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara)
While still in high school she was
already exhibiting paintings in art
galleries, and these days she is
represented by Woodward
Gallery on (Eldridge and
Delancy) .
As a leading participant in the
rise of graffiti-based art, Lady
Pink's canvases have entered
important art collections such as
those of the Whitney Museum,
the Metropolitan, the Brooklyn
Museum and several
international museums too.
69. …..
"I chose the name Pink
because it's a feminine name
and it had to be known that I
was a girl, but also because of
the way the letters look."
When boys would go out to
do graffiti after school,
Fabara was not invited but
went anyway. "I picked up a
very tough street persona,
like a front, that had an
extremely big mouth," she
says. "I was a feminist
without ever having heard
the word.”
Source: Chicago
71. Lady Pink Mural At Welling Court, Lady of the Leaf
in Astoria Queens, 2011
72. Installation in Progress
at Welling Court, Lady of the Leaf
in Astoria Queens, 2011
Also in this image: Cycle and Free 5
73. Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara)
“It's difficult for a woman to be involved with Graffiti. There is an
attitude that women are too weak and also a liability, or the attitude
that they just can't do it. I was 15 at the time and I didn't want to hear
that. As a woman in Graffiti you might as well throw your reputation
in the dirt. Everyone thinks you sleep around with the guys . I
needed to hold my head up and prove that I could do it for other
women...”
74. Art Historical
references…
Lady Pink
The Venus and the Penis
1997
Spray paint on canvas
The Venus of Willendorf is one of the
earliest images of the body made by
humankind. It stands just over 4 ½
inches high and was carved about
25,000 years ago. It was discovered on
the banks of the Danube River, in
Austria, and it was most likely made
by hunter-gatherers who lived in the
area.
75. Art Historical
references…
Very little is known about its origin,
method of creation, or cultural
significance; however, it is one of
numerous Venus figurines or
representations of female figures
surviving from the Paleolithic
period.
Lady Pink
The Venus and the Penis
1997
Spray paint on canvas
76. Art Historical
references…
Azalea: There’s a common trend of larger, thicker
women.
Jen R.: This is against social norms of the present
Yeva: in both this image and the Lady Liberty image,
both women are pink. Referring to her name?
Christian: ALRIGHT. Vegetables grow on plants…and
they’re essential to life....in this case, penises are
growing, so they’re essential to women for breeding.
Daymoni: Maybe it’s more about the artist competing
with men in the art world…..does that really go with
what she believes in??
Gyaban: Maybe this shows how as a woman she’s
surrounded by all these dude, but she’s not actually
having anything to do with them.
Lady Pink
The Venus and the
Penis
1997
Spray paint on
canvas
81. Final comments/questions on Lady Pink…
Kendell : She’s cool because she’s persistent. She went out of
her way to do what she likes. A lot of people these days don’t
even go out of their way to do things they like.
Dakota: I like her as an artist. She’s bold with what she’s
trying to say, and expresses it well. I like how she uses the
color pink as her “tag” it’s identifiable as hers, it’s like a
“trend.”
Vraj: She’s inspired other women to do graffiti.
Delani: Her art is nice or whatever, but I don’t think she’s
inspired anyone. Plus, there’s other women who do this.
Levy: I like her, but Swoon is much more compelling.
Daymoni: What are the people she used to write graffiti with doing
now?
Azalea: Does she have kids? If she does, would she allow her kids to
do graffiti??
Tenzin: Were her parents supportive of this?
Adiba: What struggles has she gone through in her lifetime. What do
people think of her now because of that?
Delani: Is there any artwork she regrets making?
82. Final comments/questions on Lady Pink…
Danisa:She’s my fave.
Adrianna: She’s an inspiration, she shows that anything is
possible. Just because someone tells you “no!” doesn’t mean
you can’t do it…especially for younger artists who wanna
make it.
Artan: Does her Ecuadorian roots relate toher work at all?
Danisa: Why does she use the female body so much in her
work? It’s a common theme for other artists, but why?
Ingrid: Does this contradict the point of her work?
Promia: Her using the female form in her work emphasizes
the point of body-positive imagery.
Adrianna: Yeah. The female body is sexualized by others, and
the minute someone accepts their body, it’s not socially
acccepted.
It shows fertility, motherhood, womanhood....if YOU sexualize
women, you’ll probably do that with her work, but if not,
you’ll feel empowered by it.
83. What does she seem like
as a person?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_phSyiGAyjc
• Christian: Feminist. A peson who supports equal rights for women
• Marco: She’s WAY older than I imagined.
• Kristen: She’s serious about what she does. It’s for fun, but not just that…she
does it for a greater purpose.
• Tatiana: She’s very blunt and candid and so is her art.
• Gio: Agrees with Tatiana. Her art is bold and her statements are too, in what
she’s pushing for.
• Kendell: Agree with Gio too….I can see in how she does her makeup as well,
there’s bold eye shadow on this.
• Delani: Her make up looks like a four-year old did this.
• Daymoni: We have an image of what we think she would look like….
• Moh: Agree with Daymoni....it shouldn’t matter what she looks like, it’s what
she MAKES. Maybe this is why most artists keep their identity a secret, so
people just look at that.
2:36- 4:50
84. What does she seem like
as a person?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_phSyiGAyjc
• Danisa: She doesn’t wanna be objectified.
• Sarah: She’s outgoing, she doesn’t care what others think and she
saying the truth for herself.
• Prince: Her art shows confidence in women, and tells people to
see women in a different light…and she doesn’t want women to
be used as items...(Ingrid: ...or Toys)
• Sakin: …She;s serious about this. She doesn’t want to be looked at
as a joke. She makes sure people know she’s female and that she’s
one of them.
• Ingrid: She’s one of them and is even BETTER than them. At the
beginning, she was just “tagging” along, but she’s more than that.
2:36- 4:50
85.
86. Montreal Writers
• so I made a list of Montreal writers because you guys already have seen the stuff from kuma, lush,
typoe and those other hyped writers, and my post with street artists wasn't even funny.
• ZEK TFB, KG, 156, TFO, K6A, A'shop (this picture is a straight up lineup of kickass montreal legends,
except for indie whom I don't give half a shit about) Zek was the first writer in Montreal to
approach murals in a professional way
• stare NME, KG (
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQS5-FjKLUyIHh4JGGI-96hpnDWKVz2XYeE1kBSZT
)
• Bacer SVC In the early 2000s that guy and case fucking smashed Montreal's downtown with
rolldowns, SVC and NME are the reason why rollers are so popular in this city.
• sake BTM Can't talk about montreal without mentionning him, nothing too impressive stylewise
but he's been up and he stays up.
• Castro VC known for gigantic straights in quantity with a very controversial name, dude made the
newspapers with scan in the early 2000s because of how many metro stations they were
destroying
• scan TFB Same kind of bombing game as sake (altough he hasn't been very active illegaly this year),
but with a lot more style and pieces.
• Serak k6a one of the illest throws and hand in the city
as well as the foundator of k6a, which is probably the illest mural/rapper collective in the city
88. @Tats Cru on Twitter
Thanks Gyaban!
TATS CRU, Inc. is a group
of Bronx-based graffiti artists
turned professional muralists.
Their work can be found at
the “Wall of Fame” on 106th
and Park
Some current members of
TATS CRU are Bio, BG 183,
Nicer, HOW and NOSM.
