Street and installation artist Swoon, aka Caledonia Dance Curry (b. 1977) takes much pride in subverting expectations, from the art world and otherwise. “It’s not like I don’t do things because I’m worried that they would be perceived as normal,” says Swoon. “Sometimes in life you are born feeling like a bit of an outsider. When that happens you realize that you have to kind of cut your own path in life.” Read the full article here https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamlehrer/2016/02/13/new-york-street-and-installation-artist-swoon-uses-humanity-as-her-most-powerful-tool/?sh=6b67e2284c16

The fair is expected to include an assemblage of paintings, photography, prints, drawings, design, sculpture and video art, along with scheduled talks and performance art throughout the week. New York’s Allouche Gallery will be one of the exhibitors during the festival and has curated over 30 pieces from artists including George Condo, Jean-Micheal Basquiat, Keith Haring, Dustin Yellin, Kenny Scharf, Paul Insect, FAILE, Rafa Macarron, Doze Green, Lori Earley, Eric Freeman, Enoc Perez and Nick Georgiou. Read the full article at https://hypebeast.com/2019/11/allouche-gallery-art-miami-art-basel-2019 

Traveling around NYC, a 14 foot box truck has been transformed into a diorama-style outdoor sculpture that is a stage for both visual and performance art, inspired by domestic scenes and stories shared on this site. Swoon, uses intricate cutaways, painting, and performance to build a world that blends reality and wonder. As a roving, mobile sculpture, The House Our Families Built asks viewers to consider the legacy of ancestral histories. Read the full article at https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/public-art/the-house-our-families-built/

British street artist Paul Insect, who has worked with the likes of Banksy and calls Damien Hirst a collector, has opened his latest exhibition, ‘Reflective Minds’. Running now until 8th October at the Allouche Gallery, New York, he combines all the absurdism of Dada with the sleekness of modernism, yielding surreal renderings that point playfully at the deep dark underbelly of adult life.   Read the full article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/felicitycarter/2017/10/01/paul-insects-reflective-mind/?sh=6c076d3847f1

This collection is all about exploration of the familiar – looking at the relationship between solitude, independence, and the spaces we inhabit. “The main inspirations I’ve been taking from are interiors that are familiar to me. I have a really deep connection with spaces and the way that humans interact inside a home…the figures are meant to embody the viewer and stand as something we can see in all of us”   Read the full article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/felicitycarter/2018/02/01/ben-evans-opens-his-latest-exhibition-kink-today/?sh=1a7868d04742