Exhibition: Intersecting Narratives: from October 25 to December 16, 2011at the Picker Gallery, Colgate University

Selections from four works of the past twenty years

Return

Sub-version

Where Will You Spend Eternity

Mexico, Sacred and Profane

The Ticking Clock 2011, from "Sub-version"

 The Phantom, 2011, from "Sub-version"

Flight #4787, from "Return"

"Return", a sequel - projected for summer 2013

In NYC

Our Shadows, Walking west to the High Line with Simon & Patrick, 8/19/11

365 Days of Print, July 2011 ©Sylvia de Swaan

365 Days of Print, a blog created by Maya Joseph-Goteiner, with a goal to engage and create dialogue about the news and  print media. I was a participant for the month of July along with eight other artists - quite a challenge to create a new piece every single day - Last Day, July 31, 2011

Babel

The Clock is Ticking

Panic/Volatility

Center for Book Arts, group exhibition

My piece in this exhibition, is "Libro Sin Palabras" which dates from 1963, Mexico City.  At the time I was working on large pieces, cutting shapes from color paper.  Then I had the idea to make a book in the same mode. "Libro Sin Palabras" consists of ten pages - each turn of the page changes the configuration. The idea came to me out of my interest in kaleidoscopes and Chinese scrolls. It's an edition of 50 hand cut (by me) books with only the spiral binding mechanically done. 

                                
                              Libro Sin Palabras, Mexico, DF 1964 ©Sylvia de Swaan - limited edition of 50 hand made books

The Elusive Self - self portraits

Route 49, Marcy, NY 2005 ©Sylvia de Swaan

Prague to Berlin, 1994 ©Sylvia de Swaan

Waiting, Denver, CO 2006 ©Sylvia de Swaan

Alking, Chernivtsi, Ukraine 2013

Sylvan Beach, NY 2013 ©Sylvia de Swaan

Shepkina 12/17, Chernivtsi, Ukraine 2013 ©Sylvia de Swaan

"Return," in the "Transcultural Identities," exhibition

Flight #4787, 1990/2008

Cartography 1993/96/2010

Return - A Sequel - 2012

 Czernowitz/Chernivtsi, 2008

 Ghetto Walk, Czernowitz/Chernivtsi, October 9, 2008

The Sites of Our Heritage, Czernowitz/Chrnivtsi 2008

 Cluj to Timisoara 1994/2008

Sub-version

"Sub-version" is about the interplay between truth and fiction and how meaning is shaped and altered through juxtaposition and editing. It's also about about terror, surveillance, mass media, virtual reality, shadowy threats and ominous rumors.

 

On The News 2008

Firearm 2008

Murder on 6th Avnue 2009

Libya for Lunch 2012

The Pahntom 2012

The Ticking Clock 2012

The Camera 2014

Spark Lights the Friction 2014

Distrito Federal

Ultimas Noticias, La Alameda

Rumbo La Merced

Azcapozalco