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Gio Swaby: I Will Blossom Anyway: Claire Oliver Gallery, Harlem

Past exhibition
19 May - 15 July 2023
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  • Gio Swaby: ‘I Will Blossom Anyway’ at Claire Oliver Gallery

    Gio Swaby: ‘I Will Blossom Anyway’ at Claire Oliver Gallery

    Art Martin Cid Magazine July 8, 2023
    Swaby’s work is a marked counterpoint to this: intentionally serving as a love letter to Black women, often her friends, through a gaze that is...
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  • Claire Oliver Gallery now presenting works by Gio Swaby

    Claire Oliver Gallery now presenting works by Gio Swaby

    Art Daily July 8, 2023
    The exhibition features life-scale textile works including six self-portraits and a grid work of nine silhouettes. This new series explores the concept of dual identities...
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  • For Gio Swaby, Love is Liberation

    For Gio Swaby, Love is Liberation

    by Jenna Adrian-Diaz for SURFACE June 27, 2023
    The textile artist celebrates the multifaceted power of her chosen medium, finding softness and strength in her monumental embroidered portraits.
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  • Artist Explores the Concept of Dual Identities in Series of Textile Portraits

    Artist Explores the Concept of Dual Identities in Series of Textile Portraits

    Margherita Cole for My Modern Met June 13, 2023
    Moving to a new country can be invigorating and isolating all at once. When Bahamian artist Gio Swaby relocated to Canada, she found herself presenting...
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  • Gio Swaby’s Stitched Portraits Reveal the Beauty of the Undone

    Gio Swaby’s Stitched Portraits Reveal the Beauty of the Undone

    by Grace Edquist for VOGUE June 8, 2023
    To create the textile works in her new solo exhibition at Claire Oliver Gallery, in Harlem, Gio Swaby turned inward. After a prolific few years...
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  • Gio Swaby Explores Resilience in Adversity Through Her ‘I Will Blossom Anyway’ Artworks

    Gio Swaby Explores Resilience in Adversity Through Her ‘I Will Blossom Anyway’ Artworks

    Thursd. June 6, 2023
    Swaby's art is a reminder that, like flowers breaking through concrete, we too can find the strength to bloom and flourish, regardless of the challenges...
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  • Gio Swaby's Textile Reflections at Claire Oliver Gallery

    Gio Swaby's Textile Reflections at Claire Oliver Gallery

    Art Currently May 30, 2023
    The exhibition is a love letter to Black and Brown women, often Swaby’s friends. Focalizing on their flaws, personal style, strength and eccentricities through sewn...
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  • Gio Swaby, uno sguardo sulle donne

    Gio Swaby, uno sguardo sulle donne

    Daniela for Il Canto delle Muse May 26, 2023
    Nascono da una sagoma per poi divenire textures di stoffe vivaci con enfasi floreale i ritratti di donne che caratterizzano l’ultima serie di Gio Swaby...
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  • Gio Swaby Embarks on an Exploration of Self-Love and Acceptance in Her Vibrant Textile Portraits

    Gio Swaby Embarks on an Exploration of Self-Love and Acceptance in Her Vibrant Textile Portraits

    Kate Mothes for Colossal May 24, 2023
    From minimal outlines in black thread, empowering portraits of Black women emerge in new large-scale textile pieces by Toronto-based artist Gio Swaby (previously). Vivid fabrics...
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  • Gio Swaby: I Will Blossom Anyway

    Gio Swaby: I Will Blossom Anyway

    Mutual Art May 19, 2023
    Having grown up in the Bahamas surrounded by the materials her seamstress mother used, Swaby chose to work in textiles—a medium traditionally associated with domesticity...
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  • GIO SWABY: I WILL BLOSSOM ANYWAY

    GIO SWABY: I WILL BLOSSOM ANYWAY

    Redazione for ArteMorbida May 19, 2023
    I Will Blossom Anyway Coincides with the Artist’s Second Solo Museum Exhibition, Fresh Up , On View at the Art Institute of Chicago – through...
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  • ‘Gio Swaby, I Will Blossom Anyway’ to Open at Claire Oliver Gallery during Frieze Week

    ‘Gio Swaby, I Will Blossom Anyway’ to Open at Claire Oliver Gallery during Frieze Week

    Gotham To Go May 12, 2023
    Gio Swaby originally drew from the concept of Double Consciousness originally coined by W.E.B. Debois in his 1903 work, The Souls of Black Folk where...
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