Press and Media

Selected press and media coverage:

• Sunflower Slow Drag (image featured), Justified: City Primeval, FX, 2023

• 22 Unique Ways to Bring Texture into Your Apartment, Redfin blog (March 28, 2023)

• Show Catalog, Cityscape Chicago, Palette & Chisel Gallery, Chicago, IL (September 2-26, 2022)

• Virtual Artist Talk: Where Art Works: Artist Communities and Creative Placemaking, Zoom (January 15, 2022)

• “Where Art Works: Artist Communities and Creative Placemaking,” How a Northside Studio Building Became a Community Anchor, Chicago Gallery News (December 17, 2021)

• Art World Chicago, artist profile (September 2021)

• Expert Tips For Creating The Ultimate Home Art Studio by Ryan Castillo, Redfin blog (February 23, 2021)

• Introducing Yourself with Authority and Grace, by Gigi Rosenberg (April 2, 2020)

• How to Nail Your Elevator Speech by Gigi Rosenberg, Professional Artist Magazine (February-March 2019)

• Thought-Provokers: Meet Kevin Swallow, interview, VoyageChicago (December 6, 2018)

• The Grid: Exploring the Roscoe Village neighborhood (feature on Cornelia Arts Building at 7:48 which also includes my art) Chicago Sun-Times (July 11, 2018)

• Where Magazine - Chicago (Cornelia Arts Building feature), May 2016

• Water Towers and Kevin Swallow's Urban Landscapes by Philip Hartigan, Praeterita (August 22, 2015)

• Review: Kevin Swallow/Firecat Projects, by Chris Miller, New City Art (August 10, 2015)

• Outside The Loop #458: Chicago water tower paintings, A mobbed-up cop’s story, The Secret History of local Elvis impersonator Rick Saucedo, WGN Radio 720 AM (July 25, 2015)

• Artist Kevin Swallow finds an abundance of inspiration in Chicago’s cityscapes, by Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times (July 22, 2015)

• Andersonville Artist Pays Tribute to City's Disappearing Old Water Tanks, by Mina Bloom, DNAInfo (July 9, 2015)

• Swallow Paints the Town With City Scenes, NIU Alumni Association, MyNIU.com (July 23, 2015)

• The 34 Best Things to Do This Summer in Chicago - ART: This Must Be The Place, by Tomi Obaro and Matt Pollock, Chicago Magazine (July 2015)

• This Must Be the Place, Go: What to Do - Art & Design, by Jason Foumberg, Chicago Magazine (July-August, 2015)

• Kevin Swallow: This Must Be The Place, Calendar Feature, Chicago Gallery News (July-August, 2015)

• The WIP Project: What Is Painting? Featuring Kevin Swallow, NeotericART (Nov 7, 2014)

• From Outside to Inside on Chicago’s North Side, by Philip A Hartigan, Hyperallergic, New York, NY (2014)

• A Chicago art incubator works hard to bring original art to your walls, NorthCenter-RoscoeVillage Patch (2014)

• Outside the Loop Radio: Episode #367 (88.7FM – WLUW), Chicago, IL (2013)

• Chicago Skyline (salmon sky) published in “In Living Color,” PureWow Magazine (2013)

• Cornelia Arts Building listing, Chicago Gallery News: Sept-Dec 2013 Issue: (2013)

• Video Interview, Genesis Art Supply – artsupply.com, Chicago, IL (2013)

• Praeterita – Six of the Best, Part 25: Kevin Swallow by Philip A Hartigan (2013)

• Featured artist in Dick Blick 2013 Spring catalog (2013)

• Video Interview (part 1), Third Coast Diaspora, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL (2013)

• Video Interview (part 2), Third Coast Diaspora, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL (2013)

• Studio Feature, Hyperallergic – A View from the Easel, New York, NY (2012)

• Interview, NeotericART, Chicago, IL (2011)