Thursday, Feb. 11: OLD BAGS PROJECT
OLD BAGS first solo exhibition in NYC. ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Thursday, February 11, 2016. 6:30 - 9:30 PM FREE
OLD BAGS is a collaborative multi-disciplinary art project exploring the experience of the aging American woman. The intention is to use art to confront the anti-aging consumer culture. Poking fun at consumerism, and mockingly neutralizing a stale insult, older women have proudly stripped to their underwear and posed in front of the camera with shopping bags over their heads to create a provocative body of work.
Artists: OLD BAGS
Press
- The Village Voice, 2016-02-09, Madison Margolin (Article)
“These ‘Old Bags’ Are Taking a Stand Against Age Discrimination”: Faith Baum and Lori Petchers’s Old Bags Project, photographs and interviews with nearly seventy women aged forty to seventy, shown at Rabbithole on 11 February 2016.
“On Thursday at the Rabbithole gallery in Brooklyn, the duo will showcase these women wearing only bras and panties, their faces obscured by shopping bags …”
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