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In January 2025, three Gallery 25 artists participated in the Exquisite Corpse Project at the Downtown Artist Gallery. 

 

The so-called cadavre exquis or exquisite corpse, a Surrealist visual game, was created in winter 1925–26, when members of the group gathered in the evenings. If conversation lagged, they invented games to spark the unconscious. The exquisite corpse grew out of one such invention, which reimagined the children’s game of “head, body, legs,” in which each participant adds to a drawing without seeing the preceding contributions, which are hidden by folding the paper. The results are strange, sometimes violent, combinations of images. 

The Downtown Artist Gallery enlisted sixty artists and randomly put them in groups of three, choosing one from each group to begin the process. Artist number one received a primed wooden panel sixty inches tall, thirty inches wide, and separated into three equal sections (20” X 30”). The names and addresses of artists two and three were listed on the back of the panel. Artist number one chose to create the head, torso, or leg region. Upon completion, artist number one covered the work with paper, leaving a minimum of one inch visible for artist number two to continue, or choose the non-contiguous section. Artist number two then completed the region of choice, covering the work with paper and leaving the requisite visual margin. The panel was delivered to artist number three to take what was left. Each artist had four weeks to complete the selected portion. 

 

Representing Gallery 25 were Karen LeCocq, Cynthia Cameron, and Michele Sani. As fate would have it, Karen created a head, Cynthia a torso, and Michele the legs, but they worked on completely different panels with randomly selected artists. 

 

The participating artists were invited to an Artist Reveal Party on September 28, 2024. The exhibit ran from ArtHop, January 2, 2025 through Saturday, January 4, 2025.

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