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Heliotrope Prints

Swoon

$75.00

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Artist: Swoon

Title: ALICIA

About the print: 

Unsigned
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle 210gsm 50% rag watercolor paper
13″x19″ paper size 
Hand numbered edition of 250 
Embossed with the Heliotrope Foundation logo 

2020 

Swoon painted a large scale portrait of Alicia following their collaboration on the artwork for Alicia’s 2020 single, “Underdog.” Swoon’s vision was to harness the powerful spirit of the songstress and said of the piece, “It’s Alicia—she’s this creative force. She’s very much in the line of portraits of people realizing themselves, unfurling into themselves.” This Heliotrope Print is based off of this original painting.

March 2021 began our support of ZA’KIYAH HOUSE, an organization in Pittsburgh whose mission is to reduce drug addiction, recidivism & homelessness by operating a sober living residence to help those transitioning back into society after incarceration or out of crisis. Their facility assists individuals along the journey to self-sufficiency by helping them access the essential resources they need, including recovery support, counseling, education, mental health treatment & employment strategies. Za’Kiyah House will be opening a residence in December for women operating on the same principles as their men’s residence. Heliotrope and Swoon donated a property next to the Braddock Church that will become this new home. Proceeds from the sale of the ALICIA print will further bolster our assistance to Za’Kiyah House with the renovation work in the coming months.

About the Artist:

Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Callie took to the streets of New York while attending the Pratt Institute of Art in 1999, pasting her paper portraits to the sides of buildings with the goal of making art and the public space of the city more accessible.

In a moment when contemporary art often holds a conflicted relationship to beauty, Callie’s work carries with it an earnestness, treating the beautiful as sublime even as she explores the darker sides of her subjects. Her work has become known for marrying the whimsical to the grounded, often weaving in slivers of fairy-tales, scraps of myth, and a recurring motif of the sacred feminine. Tendrils of her own family history—and a legacy of her parents’ struggles with addiction and substance abuse—recur throughout her work.

While much of Callie’s art plays with the fantastical, there is also a strong element of realism. This can be seen in her myriad social endeavors, including a long-term community revitalization project in Braddock, Pennsylvania and her efforts to build earthquake-resistant homes in Haiti through Konbit Shelter. Her non-profit, the Heliotrope Foundation, was created in order to further support these ventures.

Today, Callie’s work can be found on the sides of buildings worldwide and has been given both permanent and transient homes in more classical institutions, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Tate Modern, and the São Paulo Museum of Art. Most recently, she has begun using film animation to explore the boundaries of visual storytelling.

www.heliotropefoundation.org

www.swoonstudio.org

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