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Artist Gio Swaby’s First Solo Show Brings Stunning Fabric Portraits to the Peabody Essex Museum
Alexandra Pecci for Northshore Magazine October 4, 2023The domestic arts of sewing, embroidery, and quilting result in beautiful, intricate creations that are bright, colorful, and intimate. But they’ve also been long associated...Read more -
10 art exhibits to explore this fall
Solon Kelleher for WBUR September 22, 2023'Gio Swaby: Fresh Up' From afar, a Gio Swaby portrait may resemble an acrylic painting: bright colors and thick lines. But up close, it’s clear...Read more
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At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric
Murray Whyte for Boston Globe August 24, 2023Loose black thread dangles from bare canvas in Gio Swaby’s “Another Side to Me” series, all of them self-portraits, or portraits of women close to...Read more -
my pretty side frays: Chenoa Baker shares an inside look at Gio Swaby’s creative process
Chenoa Baker for Peabody Essex Museum August 7, 2023Going out requires preparation: adjusting necklines, swooping edges, applying makeup and sculpting hair, a party punctuated by scuffed heels, haloed flyaways, flaked product and smeared...Read more
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A word with Gio Swaby
Dinah Cardin for Peabody Essex Museum July 28, 2023Gio Swaby is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Swaby was born in 1991 in the Bahamas and works in Canada....Read more -
Five museum shows to enrich your summer excursions, from Connecticut to Maine
Murray Whyte for Boston Globe July 14, 2023GIO SWABY: FRESH UP A quiltmaker with a thoroughly contemporary vision for the medium, Swaby, who is in her early 30s, makes portraits of the...Read more