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Swain McCaughrin is a Berlin-based American visual artist, working in multiple mediums including acrylics, oils, and wearable forms of paper, wood, PVC, and 3D printing. She studied sculpture in college, focusing on metals, wood, and stone. In 2002, she moved to New York City and found a creative escape in nightlife, and began folding paper and other materials 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.
MISASSEMBLED began forming in 2012 as a way to expand her vision of wearing sculptures. She started dressing her musician and performer friends and developed a series of accessories in wood and paper. Shifting her focus to headpieces, she moved to Berlin in 2015, where she also started a line of 3D printed jewelry.
At the same time, she began playing around with acrylics which offered a creative relief to the tight and controlled work of her headpieces. Finding a freedom in using this medium, she began responding to mood, mostly induced by music and mental noise, and created a series paintings that records a unique emotional state at a specific point in time.
She continues to develop her photo-realistic oil painting series focusing on unintentional abstract designs in peeling paint, specifically found on the structural columns in the New York City Subway stations. An observation of time and human presence, this series is in its beginning stages.
She has shown her work in New York City and Paris, and has created pieces for musicians IAMX, Corlyx, and Demetr1us. Her work has been featured in Elléments Magazine, Elegant Magazine, Dark Beauty Magazine, HUF Magazine, CulTour Magazine, and Poletno Branje Magazine.
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Swain McCaughrin is a Berlin-based American visual artist, working in multiple mediums including acrylics, oils, and wearable forms of paper, wood, PVC, and 3D printing. She studied sculpture in college, focusing on metals, wood, and stone. In 2002, she moved to New York City and found a creative escape in nightlife, and began folding paper and other materials 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.
MISASSEMBLED began forming in 2012 as a way to expand her vision of wearing sculptures. She started dressing her musician and performer friends and developed a series of accessories in wood and paper. Shifting her focus to headpieces, she moved to Berlin in 2015, where she also started a line of 3D printed jewelry.
At the same time, she began playing around with acrylics which offered a creative relief to the tight and controlled work of her headpieces. Finding a freedom in using this medium, she began responding to mood, mostly induced by music and mental noise, and created a series paintings that records a unique emotional state at a specific point in time.
She continues to develop her photo-realistic oil painting series focusing on unintentional abstract designs in peeling paint, specifically found on the structural columns in the New York City Subway stations. An observation of time and human presence, this series is in its beginning stages.
She has shown her work in New York City and Paris, and has created pieces for musicians IAMX, Corlyx, and Demetr1us. Her work has been featured in Elléments Magazine, Elegant Magazine, Dark Beauty Magazine, HUF Magazine, CulTour Magazine, and Poletno Branje Magazine.