Alison the Lacemaker — Swoon
For Alison the Lacemaker, Swoon was drawing a portrait of a friend sewing when Vermeer’s Lacemaker emerged as a natural muse. The portrait is in honor of the Lacemaker, but also a separate nod to the ability of early European woodcut masters—like Jost Amman in his noted depiction of Adam and Eve—to tell such poignant stories about the knowledge of our own mortality.
PROCESS: 4-Color Screen Print on Handmade Bhutan Paper
DIMENSIONS: 20" W x 28" H
EDITIONS: Signed Edition of 100
”Working with Haven Press has been transformative. When I want to create silk screen edition from a mammoth scale linoleum block print, translating the subtlety of the faces without losing any of the tiny details in the line work nor any of the nuance of the expression is a huge challenge. But this is the kind of challenge that Mark just zeroes right in on, and he doesn’t stop until he’s gotten everything tuned precisely. And, something you might not think about right away, but which is incredibly important, and sometimes hard to find — he never makes me feel like a lunatic for wanting things to be at such a high level of quality and accuracy. Haven Press understands and respects the importance of an artist’s vision and does everything possible to bring it to life. It’s really a special place."
— Swoon
Photo Credit: Sasha Maslov for The New York Times
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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