Girl with Dappled Sunlight
2018
Girl with Dappled Sunlight presents a quietly commanding figure rendered through the layered interplay of relief, etching, and screenprint, three printmaking disciplines that Swoon orchestrates with the kind of tactile sensitivity more often associated with drawing by hand. Produced in 2018 at Tandem Press, the work belongs to an edition of just eighteen, each example hand-signed by the artist. Light fractures across the composition in the manner suggested by the title, and the cumulative effect of the interlocked processes gives the surface a warmth and depth that reproduction can only approximate. Swoon builds her imagery through accumulation, and this piece rewards close inspection, where the distinct character of each technique becomes legible and the whole reveals itself as something more than the sum of its parts. Caledonia Curry, known publicly as Swoon, has been a defining presence in the conversation around street art and its relationship to the fine art print tradition for more than two decades. Her large-scale wheat-paste figures, installed on building facades across multiple continents, share their visual DNA with works like this one, the same attentive line, the same sense of a human presence caught in a moment of unselfconscious stillness. Collecting Girl with Dappled Sunlight means acquiring an object that sits comfortably within both the history of contemporary printmaking and the broader narrative of public and socially engaged art. At 61 by 91.4 centimeters, the piece has a considered, intimate scale that invites a genuinely close relationship between the work and its eventual home.
- Medium
- Relief, etching, screenprint
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Tandem Press, Madison, WI
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Tandem PressView on map
For Sale — $3500
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