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Swain McCaughrin is a Berlin-based American visual artist. With a sculpture background, she currently works in multiple mediums including acrylics, oils, and wearable forms of paper, PVC, and 3D printing. Her accessories brand, MISASSEMBLED, focuses on jewelry, headpieces, and body sculptures.
Creating wearable sculptures began in New York City in the early 2000s, when she discovered the creative freedom in underground nightlife. Fueled by a fluorescent world of black light and music, she began folding paper and vinyl to make large scale, origami-like installations for warehouse parties. With her self-taught sewing and fashion design skills, her installations evolved into sculptural geometric designs to wear, merging art with fashion and movement with sculpture.
At the same time, she began observing and photographing unintentional abstract designs in peeling paint, specifically found on the structural columns in the New York City Subway stations. Obsessed with the variety of colors and shapes, she began replicating these designs with oil paints. An observation of time and human presence, this series is in its beginning stages.
After moving to Berlin in 2015 and experiencing a different city energy, she began playing around with acrylics which offered a creative relief to the tight and controlled work of her sculptural and oil work. Finding a freedom in using this medium, she began responding to mood, mostly induced by music, stress, and mental noise, and created a series paintings that records a unique emotional state at a specific point in time.
She has shown her work in New York City, Milan, and Paris, and has created wearable pieces for musicians including IAMX, Corlyx, and Demetr1us.
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Swain McCaughrin is a Berlin-based American visual artist. With a sculpture background, she currently works in multiple mediums including acrylics, oils, and wearable forms of paper, PVC, and 3D printing. Her accessories brand, MISASSEMBLED, focuses on jewelry, headpieces, and body sculptures.
Creating wearable sculptures began in New York City in the early 2000s, when she discovered the creative freedom in underground nightlife. Fueled by a fluorescent world of black light and music, she began folding paper and vinyl to make large scale, origami-like installations for warehouse parties. With her self-taught sewing and fashion design skills, her installations evolved into sculptural geometric designs to wear, merging art with fashion and movement with sculpture.
At the same time, she began observing and photographing unintentional abstract designs in peeling paint, specifically found on the structural columns in the New York City Subway stations. Obsessed with the variety of colors and shapes, she began replicating these designs with oil paints. An observation of time and human presence, this series is in its beginning stages.
After moving to Berlin in 2015 and experiencing a different city energy, she began playing around with acrylics which offered a creative relief to the tight and controlled work of her sculptural and oil work. Finding a freedom in using this medium, she began responding to mood, mostly induced by music, stress, and mental noise, and created a series paintings that records a unique emotional state at a specific point in time.
She has shown her work in New York City, Milan, and Paris, and has created wearable pieces for musicians including IAMX, Corlyx, and Demetr1us.