THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Melena Ryzik
NEW YORK---With a glowing paper cutout pinned over her heart, the artist known as
Swoon led a procession through the Brooklyn Museum early one summer night to her installation “
Submerged Motherlands,” a site-specific jumble that includes two cantilevered rafts, seemingly cobbled out of junk; a tree, of fabric and wire, that reaches to the rotunda; and nooks of stenciled portraits. Since she began illegally pasting images around the city 15 years ago, Swoon has inspired a lot of wonderment. Born Caledonia Curry, she started her career as a street artist, but quickly leapfrogged to the attention of gallerists and museum curators, which let her expand to installation and performance art, often with an activist, progressive bent. [
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