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Swoon, David Ellis and Faile, a three-person art collective, all take their cue from the street. Well renowned individually, their show, “The Burning House,” will provide a high concentration of talent in collaborations as well as in the individual works on display. Swoon’s intricate paper cutouts have been covering the streets of New York for the past six years, depicting people doing ordinary things—riding bikes, talking on a stoop or going grocery shopping. |
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The Burning House – Marsea Goldberg
Swoon, David Ellis and Faile, a three-person art collective, all take their cue from the street. Well renowned individually, their show, “The Burning House,” will provide a high concentration of talent in collaborations as well as in the individual works on display.
Swoon’s intricate paper cutouts have been covering the streets of New York for the past six years, depicting people doing ordinary things—riding bikes, talking on a stoop or going grocery shopping. Her delicate, wheat-pasted cutouts take inspiration from German Expressionist wood block prints and Indonesian shadow puppets, but infuse a uniquely urban sensibility in the way they become part of the streetscape as they decay over time. Her work has been shown at Deitch Projects, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Growing up in a family of musicians heavily influenced the work of David Ellis, whose “motion paintings” travel through time like music, where beats are orchestrated and translated into colorful, organic paintings. His improvisational, wild-style sign painting has been a central part of the Barnstormers collective over the years. His works have appeared in public projects in New York, London and Osaka.
Faile is a three-person collective based in New York that pulls in influences from comic book art, pulp fiction and popular culture. The group’s work has appeared on streets all over the world as well as at Shanghai’s Tiger Translate, San Francisco’s FIFTY24SF, Zurich’s Les Complices and Berlin’s Neurotitan Haus Schwarzenberge. From enormous wheat-pasted posters to the group’s three published books, the quality of their work has propelled them from being street renegades to being shown in some of the best galleries in the art world.
