Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Fashion Week's Exquisite Corpses

Fashion Week's Exquisite Corpses:

FAM NYC, a new creative collective, launched the Exquisite Corpse Project last week with an opening exhibition at the old Essex Street Market in the Lower East Side.
A nod to the Surrealist parlor game of the 1920s, Exquisite Corpse presents a blind collaboration between thirty-three New York artists, including Dustin Yellin, John Gordon Gauld, Sarah Kurz, and Alex Eagleton, who was also part of the project selection committee (along with Grey Area’s Kyle DeWoody and Alix Frey of Jonathan LeVine Gallery). Assigned to envision the top, middle, or bottom of a corpse, each artist created their own interpretation on 3×4 wood panels. Results ranged from literal—like the clean, cold portrait of feet that dangled ominously above the floor—to abstract, like the bright, green, geometric middle.

As its opening date coincided conveniently with the start of fashion week in New York, the art-focused endeavor has several fashion ties: model Arizona Muse hosted last night’s launch party, former Black Book Fashion Editor Marina T. Schindler is the project’s Creative Director, and its space will welcome several private fashion week presentations and parties throughout the weeklong residency.
The exhibition will remain on view through Thursday the 16th, after which the art will be auctioned to benefit Art Start, a nonprofit providing art therapy to at-risk youth.






The Exquisite Corpse Project (installation view)





The Exquisite Corpse Project (installation view)





The Exquisite Corpse Project (installation view)





The Exquisite Corpse Project (installation view)





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