"SHOP Anew" Exhibition
Underline Gallery
This event has ended.
SHOP is annual exhibition, in response to Fashion’s Night out in New York City, that aims to provide an antidote to the banality of the mass-produced and fast-fashion distribution – offering a unique range of artist editions in limited production to coincide with a month long celebration of fashion in NYC.
UNDERLINE Gallery (238 W. 14th St.) once again, proudly presents SHOP, a unique group exhibition that reflects the growing intersection and collaboration between fashion, art, design, craft, and technology to coincide with a month-long celebration of resonating fashion in New York City. Curated by Jennifer Minniti, Chair of Fashion Design at Pratt Institute, SHOP opens on Thursday, September 6th (in participation of Fashion’s Night Out), with a reception from 6:30 to 8:30pm sponsored by Blackwell Rum, and runs through October 12th. The show also includes a lineup of provocative workshops and events throughout the month.
“SHOP is a place that celebrates––and is continually committed to–-‘the making’, providing an antidote to the banality of the mass-produced and fast-fashion distribution,” says Minniti. In a time of unprecedented access to information, new ideas, materials and technologies, artists and designers have the power to transcend the mundane and to offer the new and the novel as contemporary culture makers. SHOP aims to shift consumer culture by engaging the customer in a spirited shopping experience: one that is rooted in the creative process and resurrects an awareness of the product and the act of purchasing. SHOP offers a range of artist editions in limited production that are made by hand, as well as by rapid prototype and other smart-solution technology.
The artists and designers included in this exhibition are always chosen for their strong individualism and for their work that reflects this growing intersection between craft, technology, art, and fashion. We are committed to finding those designers, artists and artisans such as, Aurore Thibout, Liz Collins, Susan Cianciolo, and others, who pursue the extraordinary in their relentless and creative pursuits to find beauty in the seemingly conventional.
In addition to apparel, accessories, objects and made-to-order pieces will be for sale, and podcasts with the artists that narrate their processes are downloadable right in the gallery.
Events throughout the month include participation with Fashion’s Night Out on opening night, September 6, and private trunk shows. SHOP is an exhibition that provides an antidote to the banality of the mass-produced and fast-fashion distribution – offering a range of artist editions in limited production to coincide with a month
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Schedule
from September 06, 2012 to October 12, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 18:30 to 20:30
Artist(s)
Aurore Thibout, Liz Collins, Susan Cianciolo et al.