Swoon: Edline

Swoon
Edline, 2007
13 color silkscreen on cotton rag
19 x 24 inches
Edition: 45 of 50
 
Edline focuses on a young girl from Cormiers, Haiti, whom the artist met during the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. During a period of unrest following the disaster, Swoon visited Cormiers and worked with local mango growers to assist with reconstruction. In 2013, Curry began working on after-school programming at a community center in the village, which would host multiple events for children. It was in this program that the Edline prints came together, as the young subject played the sun character in a shadow-puppet play.
 
Caledonia Curry, whose art appears under the name Swoon, was born in 1977 in New London, CT. She attended the Pratt Institute (2001). Curry has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2006); Venice Biennale (2009); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2014); Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (2016); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2017); and the Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, Germany (2020). She has also been in numerous group exhibitions, including In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (2008); Radical Seafaring, Parrish Museum Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2016); Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2018); and The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (2019). Swoon currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.