Swoon Mural – Lower East Side

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007


Swoon is a Brooklyn based street artist who is best known for her paper cutouts or carvings, as she called them in my interview with her in 2003. This movie takes you through the changes on this mural from 2003 to 2007.

Swoon - Lower East Side

Swoon - LES

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Filed under: Lower East Side, Photos, Street Art , , , , , by gamma

40 Responses to “Swoon Mural – Lower East Side”

  1. Flickr: cam i am, on January 12th, 2007 at 11:34 pm Said:

    wow. this is amazing.

  2. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 12th, 2007 at 11:40 pm Said:

    Yeah, isn’t it beautiful. Definitely one of my favorite Swoon pieces.

  3. Flickr: Elisha Cook Jr., on January 13th, 2007 at 2:34 am Said:

    Terrific capture of a great Swoon piece!!!!

  4. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 13th, 2007 at 5:14 am Said:

    Thanks Elisha, It’s a panorama shot from across the street.

  5. Flickr: Elisha Cook Jr., on January 13th, 2007 at 6:24 pm Said:

    What a great shot. What a great piece!!! Congratulations.

  6. Flickr: Tea Leaf Bench, on January 13th, 2007 at 6:36 pm Said:

    here is my photo of that same piece in its earlier days

  7. Flickr: chuckwheat, on January 13th, 2007 at 7:11 pm Said:

    Fine artwork in a relatively small space.

  8. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 13th, 2007 at 9:13 pm Said:

    Thanks all. This is the most beautiful the mural has been. It would be hard to take a bad photo of it.

  9. Flickr: cam i am, on January 13th, 2007 at 9:32 pm Said:

    wow. really beautiful spot.

  10. Flickr: Soupflower, on January 14th, 2007 at 1:30 am Said:

    just beautiful. Really like the colors she used this time.

  11. Flickr: Trois Têtes (TT), on January 14th, 2007 at 4:12 pm Said:

    Looks fantastic

    Gamma can you guard it until April when Joolz and I will be back?

  12. Flickr: Justseeds Visual Resistance, on January 14th, 2007 at 6:40 pm Said:

    the paper is hand died, and probably the first time she’s been so poly-chromatic!

  13. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 14th, 2007 at 8:20 pm Said:

    I love the effect of the wash of green on the walls as well. Thanks for the info, VR.

  14. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 14th, 2007 at 10:05 pm Said:

    I’m patrolling 24/7, TT.

  15. Flickr: Irene Rx (aka Irena Kittenclaw), on January 16th, 2007 at 12:34 am Said:

    Purrrrty…Went by the other morning…real lovely.

  16. Elisha Cook Jr., on January 16th, 2007 at 10:54 am Said:

    Great work. Swoon should be thrilled. I liked the commentary as well. It was simple, but always clear and to the point. The problem of defacing artistic work on the streets can never be stopped. People are envious of her success. The best thing is to make films or take photographs so that there is a record. Also people are collecting the stuff hoping to cash in if the artist gets famous. Wheatpastes are hard if not impossible to remove, but boards or plaques are easily dislodged.

    More later

    Allan

  17. DRJoolz, on January 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pm Said:

    Love this; thanks for sharing your thoughts on all this … I love Swoon’s new use of colour. So vibrant in the city. Hope it stays till I get there in April

  18. cahbasm, on January 16th, 2007 at 4:35 pm Said:

    the narroration is hilarious!

  19. TT, on January 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pm Said:

    Brilliant Gamma. I love the commentary. Ditto DrJ on April

  20. wrybread, on January 16th, 2007 at 5:53 pm Said:

    Holy shit that was great. Swoon shall overcome. And a whole new Gametone medium is born.

  21. gamma, on January 16th, 2007 at 8:01 pm Said:

    Thanks, all.

  22. Eddie Malone, on January 16th, 2007 at 8:27 pm Said:

    Wow that colour one at the end is really vivid and jumps right out at you. Nice Vid Gamma!

  23. S, on January 17th, 2007 at 12:35 am Said:

    where is this wall?

  24. gamma, on January 17th, 2007 at 2:18 am Said:

    I’ve stopped giving the exact location of the street art in my photos on the web, because so much of it is being stolen or destroyed.

  25. Flickr: C-Monster, on January 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pm Said:

    it’s interesting to see the wall’s evolution…it gets better each time. and i have to admire swoon for so persistently plugging away at this…

  26. Flickr: Adam Lawrence, on January 19th, 2007 at 12:09 am Said:

    I really enjoyed your film! Anyone who hasn’t peeped it yet really ought to give a click.

  27. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 19th, 2007 at 12:25 am Said:

    Thanks, Adam, C, and Irena. The video has gotten a lot of views on you tube. Gothamist and newstoday.com have brought a lot of traffic to it.

  28. L'il Irena Kittenclaw Roxanne Tejaratchi..., on January 18th, 2007 at 8:36 pm Said:

    Aw G, didn’t see this until tonight. Mighty fine tribute you’ve got here…I didn’t consider some aspects of her latest work until I watched this. Thanx.

    Dig this.

  29. Flickr: Irene Rx (aka Irena Kittenclaw), on January 19th, 2007 at 12:38 am Said:

    Hey G, didn’t watch the video till tonight. Very cool. Posted some comments on your site!

  30. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 19th, 2007 at 12:18 pm Said:

    Not ’till last night, Irena, and here I thought of you as an early adopter. :)

  31. Aida (Kittenclaw's sister), on January 19th, 2007 at 11:42 am Said:

    Great art can be defaced but when recorded, as you have, never forgotten. Thanks for your commentary on a brilliant artist. Beautifully done!

  32. Flickr: Adam Lawrence, on January 19th, 2007 at 6:11 pm Said:

    curious about this piece on that same wall… anyone know anything about it? (and i love how swoon sort of incorperates it instead of removing it. and it doesn’t feel like she’s "going over" it either..)

  33. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 19th, 2007 at 8:01 pm Said:

    Nice shot of that piece. It’s been there for at least a year. I don’t know who did it.

  34. Flickr: Irene Rx (aka Irena Kittenclaw), on January 19th, 2007 at 8:17 pm Said:

    I am, G! But on rare occasions I arrive at blogs fashionably late…just to keep people wondering…

  35. Flickr: GammaBlog, on January 19th, 2007 at 8:22 pm Said:

    "Fashionably late, " ha!

  36. Flickr: Adam Lawrence, on February 20th, 2007 at 11:51 pm Said:

    sad to say i passed by this am and there’s some rather violent red smears on both the swoon piece’s head and the small framed piece next to it.
    didn’t take a pic as i feel like that may [in some odd sad way] be feeding into the ‘splatterer’ etc.

  37. Flickr: GammaBlog, on February 20th, 2007 at 11:58 pm Said:

    Crap! What a whiny baby that a-hole is.

  38. Flickr: GammaBlog, on February 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pm Said:
  39. Flickr: Trois Têtes (TT), on February 25th, 2007 at 9:33 pm Said:

    Shit!

  40. Phil, on April 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm Said:

    Hey.

    This is a wonderfull work.

    I am from germany an will soon visit new york.
    Since i have seen this work i want so see it in real.
    Can you tell me were I can finde it ?
    Is it in new york ? lower east side ?
    It would be noce if you can help me.
    greets from germany.

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