another one of my favorite contemporary artists:
SWOON
SWOON's work is street art, life-sized, cut-out, wheat paste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Her realistically rendered characters draw from life, often featuring her friends and family as characters going about everyday activities in a unique landscape of her own invention. Architectural elements become lacy patterns of light and shadow, the pieces are often flowy and uniquely delicate. Using paper shapes and inked prints, her use of both positive image and negative space hints at a broad range of inspiration. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from German Expressionist wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, SWOON is a master of using cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets.The gestural nature of her drawings, the contrast between the dark gestural lines of the figures and the soft lacy backgrounds creates a tension that to me is breath taking. The impermanence of her work, much like the fleeting moments she captures add to the drama of her work.She is a modern day rebel female icon!
its just the kinda thing i dig...
