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

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...

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...

The textile artist celebrates the multifaceted power of her chosen medium, finding softness and strength in her monumental embroidered portraits.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I Will Blossom Anyway Coincides with the Artist’s Second Solo Museum Exhibition, Fresh Up, On View at the Art Institute of Chicago – through July...

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...