"Swing Space", the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Pamela Lawton was awarded an artist's residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space. A former sporting goods store, the studio was located at the South Street Seaport Mall in Lower Manhattan. During this residency, Lawton continued her series of paintings from street level of gridded window reflections. (click here for images).

In addition, she worked on a collaborative project with artists Anne Beffel and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky. The project was based on Surrealist games from the early twentieth-century. They played a game called “Exquisite Corpse” wherein an artist would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player to write something new, creating fantastic collages of words and pictures. In Window Collections, three artists reinvented the game using materials gathered through drawings, postcards, paintings, interviews and games involving people in and around the South Street Seaport Mall.

Swing Space brings the arts and real estate communities together to breathe life into vacant space in Lower Manhattan by working with building owners to secure temporary space for artists, curators and arts organizations at no cost.