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

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  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.
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  10. ↑ Runyan, Robin (27 July 2017). "Birds take 'Flight' over the Woodward Esplanade". Curbed Detroit.
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