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Tinsquo’s curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents I’ll Play the Head at the Start: Collaborative Drawings by Angela Lau and Mark Minnig.
With respectively well-developed practices of illustration and animation, Angela Lau and Mark Minnig challenge and amuse one another in this series of freewheeling collaborative gameplay. Fun, surreal and gently profound, the evolving process operates as a strategy to reinvigorate their disciplines and to celebrate the residents and tenor of their Chinatown and East Village neighborhoods.
The artists put it this way:
“This collaborative work started organically with drawing on each other’s work with the idea of finishing one another’s sentences. It became a fun and loose way to practice thoughtful but also thoughtless drawing. It is similar to the drawing exercise of the Exquisite Corpse, where one artist draws a component of a body and hands it blindly to the next. The result, especially when artists have different styles and abilities, vary from humorous, beautiful and abstract to just plain grotesque.”
I’ll Play the Head at the Start: Collaborative Drawings by Angela Lau and Mark Minnig runs through February 24 and is on view at the Adjacent to Life pop-up gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City).