Aba — Swoon

Aba — Swoon

In 2010, Swoon started a project with a group of friends which would later evolve into the Music Box Village, a sonic sculpture garden and experiential playground for collaborative musical architecture nestled into the levee of the Upper 9th Ward in New Orleans.

This print, originally created as larger-than-life sized linoleum block print for one of the gates of the Music Box village, depicts Aba, an artist of the Music Box community, playing a percussion set embedded in the village.

PROCESS: 14-Color Screen Print Over Offset

DIMENSIONS: 24" W x 32" H

Swoon

Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Callie took to the streets of New York while attending the Pratt Institute of Art in 1999, pasting her paper portraits to the sides of buildings with the goal of making art and the public space of the city more accessible. Her work has become known for marrying the whimsical to the grounded, often weaving in slivers of fairy-tales, scraps of myth, and a recurring motif of the sacred feminine. Tendrils of her own family history—and a legacy of her parents’ struggles with addiction and substance abuse—recur throughout her work.

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