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Aimee Swed
Aimee Swed is a multimedia artist with a focus on narrative and abstract art. Concepts that fuel her art include: home, food politics, womanhood, nostalgia, and Mizrachi/ MENA Jewish identity.
Aimee studied “Quotidian Identity via the Arts”, BA at NYU to understand how people use art and narrative to tell stories as a part of identity performance.
Aimee chooses to use different mediums based on the art's message and needs. She has worked with glass, acrylic paint, watercolors, oil paints, clay, various drawing mediums, fibers, and collage.
Based in Brooklyn, New York
Highlighted Art Works
Fresh Frozen Okra
A reference to a middle eastern staple, bemyah. This is one of three "frozen ekel" watercolor peices. The food staple is frozen, packaged, and commidfied so that I can access it and use it as part of continued yet altered middle eastern Jewish identity.
The other frozen foods that are part of this mini series are: "Fresh Frozen Molokhia" and "The Butcher's Frozen Kibbe Hamda Meatballs"
Part of the Ekel Project.
Watercolor on paper 5x7", 2025
Dont Even Think It
“Don’t Think It” in Hebrew and Arabic. Metallic bars encase vines and flowers, symbolizing the instinct to cage difficult thoughts, to seal the past while still insisting on present growth. It reflects the tension between covering pain with beauty and acknowledging histories that demand remembrance. As artists rooted in a Syrian Jewish community, that rarely speaks of its extraction from Aleppo, they feel compelled to explore the past even while fully immersed in the present.
by: Aimee Swed and Lenore Mizrachi Cohen
Acetate, acrylic, watercolors, paper, and canvas, 2025
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Current WIP:
The Ekel Project
Baruch Dayan Ha'Emet
Feminist Explorations
Torah Research and Response
Contact:
aimeeswed@gmail.com
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