Presenting a tasty tidbit about artist Johnny Swing that our writer couldn’t fit into our October/November 2017 print issue.
Johnny Swing in his Brookline, Vermont studio. Photo by Paul Specht
Master welder Johnny Swing lived and worked in New York City for 13 years before bringing his curvaceous coin-based furniture to rural southern Vermont. “New York is a hard place for artists,” Swing says. “My mother was a painter. I was always discouraged by her innumerable excuses for not making art. So at a young age I pledged that I was never going to not make art. I had junkies for roommates. I lived in a burned out studio. None of that mattered. I can make art under any circumstances.”
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