The Nailicious Nail Salon (3734 W. Division St.), is please to announce a site- specific salon inspired exhibition, #Nailbait by artist Helen Maurene Cooper. #Nailbait is an installation of new photographs and original nail -themed wallpaper designed specifically for the Nailicious salon. In this project, Cooper expands her already existing collaboration with Glynnus Alexander and Yada Fernandez Ruiz (formally of Naughty Nailz and now co-owners of Nailicious). Over the past few years, the three have worked together on fine art, commercial and preformative public projects, focusing on the specific flavor of fashion in the Chicago nail community.
Serving
as an inside joke to those in the beauty industry, this new series of
photographic works are influenced by the styling of Patrick Nagel’s
salon appropriated lithographs from the 1980s and 1990s, using the
reference of the salon to generate new art for a salon. The nail sets
displayed in the images were designed specifically for the photographs
in the exhibition, fusing freestyle brushwork, 3D acrylic sculpture and
current nail shapes like stilettos and horse shoe. Cooper has also used
these new nail photographs as source material that morph into decorative
variations of floral and kaleidoscope wallpaper permanently installed
in the salon.
For more on the project see
Please join us on December 6th from 5-8 P.M. for a reception
Embellished manicures $20
Nailicious nail salon (3734 W. Division St.)
