The list of participants reflects Bowman’s creative circles in New York and LA, as well as their families and students, and artists she found through Instagram. Her exquisite corpse project grew to 70 drawings featuring contributions from over 200 artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, and curators, which she released as a book last year. Over the next year and a half, Bowman diligently mailed out and received packages. “It certainly saved me in a way, because I couldn’t go see art, and then I’d get these envelopes in the mail.” “It was the perfect thing to do during the lockdown,” she told Hyperallergic in a studio visit last year. Inspired by a massive exquisite corpse exhibition held at the Drawing Center in New York in 1993, Bowman began sending out sheets of paper folded into three sections, with instructions and a self-addressed stamped envelope, to friends and colleagues. Made famous by the Surrealists a century ago, the exquisite corpse is a collaborative exercise between three people, each of whom contributes without seeing what the others have done. Shortly before COVID-19 lockdowns began in early 2020, the Los Angeles-based artist and curator had begun an exquisite corpse mail art project. LOS ANGELES - During the pandemic, Lisa Bowman found solace in her mailbox. Top to bottom: Lisa Bowman, Gomez Bueno, Lorna Turner (all photos by Keith Lubow at Fredrik Nilsen studio, courtesy Lisa Bowman)
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