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One of the weird and I guess kind of great things about Pittsburgh is that people and things that would cause riots in many places go unnoticed here. The images above, which you might have run into in doorways, or under bridges in Pittsburgh are from one of the most Famous artists to regularly show here. She goes by the name of Swoon and will be in a group show at in Braddock tonight.

“Swoon first took her art to the street five years ago while she was a fine-arts student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She was compelled to take her work outside after suffering what she calls “the quiet, boring preciousness” of the gallery world.

“I wanted to jump out of my skin,” she said. But the streets were free and open to a wider range of expression. “Because it’s kind of an outlaw thing, you don’t have to go through official channels,” she explained. “It’s trying to create a visual commons out of the derelict walls of the city.” (She has since returned to the gallery scene, as the star of her own shows in Berlin, Miami and Cincinnati. “I need to make a living,” she shrugged.)

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