Urban Art Association

update from swoon studio

Swoon Studio is excited to announce that one of the artist’s most iconic portraits, Alison the Lacemaker, will be featured as a brand new print release on Wednesday, July 20th. Presented on handmade tea-stained jute paper, each signed-and-numbered 20” x 26” edition of 150 presents a beautifully vivid multicolor and metallic gold silkscreen of the iconic figure, which debuted over ten years ago at Swoon’s eponymous New York solo show with Jeffrey Deitch.

Alison the Lacemaker marks the first major release from Swoon in Print, Swoon Studio’s direct sales platform for editioned prints. Swoon described of Alison the Lacemaker:

“When I’m drawing a portrait, I will often have an art-historical reference somewhere in my mind. It’s usually not that I set out to make a reference; just that when I’m drawing, I’ll find a similarity in spirit or composition and let it keep the portrait company while I’m drawing. For Alison the Lacemaker, I was drawing a portrait of my friend sewing when Vermeer’s Lacemaker emerged as a natural muse. The portrait is in honor of theLacemaker, 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.”

In the spirit of the artist's collaborative approach, Swoon offers collectors the opportunity to acquire this work directly from her studio as the first major release on Swoon In Print. The limited edition Alison the Lacemaker will be available on Swooninprint.com on Wednesday July 20th at noon est.