Gio Swaby’s “Fresh Up” uses textile portraits to honor the style and multidimensionality of the women in her life. | ✍️ hourglass “Fresh Up” Through Mon, 7/3 at artinstitutechi
At first glance, Gio Swaby’s artwork can be deceptively simple. Her portraits are marked by thin, black lines that sketch the images of beautiful, confident Black women. But looking closer, you are drawn into a complex composition of stitched, knotted, and dangling threads and colorful appliqued fabric on a raw canvas background.
The Art Institute exhibition is a remarkable feat for the 31-year-old artist, who has had a meteoric rise in the past few years. Her 2021 debut solo exhibition, “Both Sides of the Sun,” at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem, sold out. Her work is now in several major museum collections, such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sometimes she’ll add vibrant patterned fabric, representative of Bahamian life, through applique, in which pieces of fabric are added as decorative elements on top of the background, or freestyle stitch with the sewing machine.“It depends so much on the person I’m representing what these choices are,” Swaby said. “Does it feel right for their portrait? Is it bringing this work to life, or is it stifling it in some ways? It’s a combination of things.
The exhibition is a powerful expression of love for Black women and girls. Using an anti-colonialist lens, Swaby aims to represent the Black women in her life as multidimensional and full of life. The care and attention she puts into each piece is also a political act—historically, art museums have rarely exhibited artwork about or for Black women. Her work is in conversation with other Black artists such as Bisa Butler, Ebony G.
Another turning point in Swaby’s practice came when she began working on the “Another Side To Me” series. This was the first time she decided to exhibit the back of the canvas, the side typically hidden from view, as the front.
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