Part Time Pittsburgh Artist, Swoon @ The Brooklyn Museum

Swoon's Brooklyn show returns to the familiar ground (and water)- idealized life size prints, & intricate cutouts creating an ethereal magical environment while attempting to build human links and political awareness.

Centered around a huge cosmic "tree of life" reaching into the infinity of the museum's domed roof she docks segments of her swimming cities raft projects.

The show does lack some of the gritty, earthy, street qualities that kept it from feeling trite. I also wish she included more videos explaining her projects.

Swoon: Submerged Motherlands

Brooklyn Museum of Art

April 11–August 24, 2014

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 5th Floor

Some previous posts about Swoon.

http://diggingpitt.blogspot.com/2010/04/famous-part-time-braddock-resident.html

http://diggingpitt.blogspot.com/2009/07/swoon-opening-of-new-carnegie-library.html

http://diggingpitt.blogspot.com/2009/06/swoon-junk-boat-city-floating-into.html

http://diggingpitt.blogspot.com/2011/03/callie-curry-aka-swoon-ted-talk.html