Hygienic Dress League

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The Hygienic Dress League, also known as HDL, is an American art duo founded by Dorota Coy and Steve Coy. Operating as a corporation, [1] the group is known for their public artworks in the Detroit, Michigan area. [2]

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History

The duo first met in Hawaii, where they were married. [3] They then moved to Detroit, where the group's first activities involved tagging abandoned buildings with graphics related to the Hygienic Dress League Corporation. [3] In recent years, the group has made a change from these "urban interventions" towards sculptural instillations that they consider to be "surreal augmentations of reality". [1]

Founded in 2007, the group held a public offering of shares in 2014. [4] Using their status as a corporation as their art medium, [2] the group brands themselves with golden gas masks and animals. [1] The pair have stated that the goal of HDL is to critique commercial promotion, by promoting itself. [5] [2] [6]

Public works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 DeVito, Lee. "Hygienic Dress League climbs the corporate ladder with its most ambitious project yet". Detroit Metro Times.
  2. 1 2 3 Herscher, Andrew (14 November 2012). The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. University of Michigan Press. ISBN   978-0-472-03521-2.
  3. 1 2 Binelli, Mark (13 November 2012). Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN   978-1-4299-7461-5.
  4. ↑ "Hygienic Dress League art project goes public with IPO". Model D.
  5. ↑ Pincus, Julie; Christian, Nichole (November 2017). Canvas Detroit. Wayne State University Press. ISBN   978-0-8143-3880-3.
  6. ↑ Creedon, E. (22 July 2015). Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance. Springer. ISBN   978-1-137-52741-7.
  7. ↑ Jones, Dan B. "Port Austin becomes the Thumb's artistic beacon". The Detroit News.
  8. ↑ Hooper, Ryan Patrick. "In Michigan's Thumb, Detroiters turn decades-old barns into art". Detroit Free Press.
  9. ↑ Rojo, Jaime; Harrington, Steven (10 July 2013). "Gothic Street Art Invades Rural Michigan". HuffPost.
  10. ↑ Runyan, Robin (27 July 2017). "Birds take 'Flight' over the Woodward Esplanade". Curbed Detroit.
  11. ↑ Detroit, Playground (8 February 2018). "HYGIENIC DRESS LEAGUE RELEASES "PROFIT OF DOOM" [PHOTO ESSAY]". PLAYGROUND DETROIT.
  12. ↑ Runyan, Robin. "Hygienic Dress League's new installation will land at the Conners Creek Power Plant". Curbed Detroit.
  13. ↑ Friday, Dan B. Jones. "Hygienic Dress League debuts Future Distortion installation as part of Detroit Art Week". Model D.
  14. 1 2 Coyne, Lauren Levato (2022-02-11). "The NFT is the Employee and the Corporation is Conceptual". Sculpture. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
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