In celebration of Los Angeles Fashion Week, Stephen Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce FashionSense, a group exhibition of photographs highlighting a spectrum of 20th Century fashion styles and photographic processes. The exhibition will also serve as a back-drop for Artist Editions: Works on Couture, an installation by fashion designer Mary Jo Matsumoto, on view from Thursday, March 17 through Saturday, March 26.  There will be a reception for Artist Editions, with the designer and artists attending on Thursday, March 17, from 6 to 9 p.m.

FashionSense
The exhibition will highlight some of the most important names in fashion working from the     1920s to the present, and will include photographs ranging from traditional silver prints to long-extinct color processes, such as the color carbro and the Vivex print.  The exhibition will showcase portraits of designers and other tastemakers in the fashion industry, along with a select number of images taken by the photographers whose own work brought many provocative designs to an attentive, and ever-expanding public.  Artists will include Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lillian Bassman, Arthur Elgort, and Dennis Hopper.

Artist Editions, Works on Couture
Employing state-of-the-art technology to fuse contemporary art with intricate high fashion, Matsumoto used the work of five contemporary artists to create five couture looks. As she describes, “We’re living in a time of convergence, where many mediums are overlapping and merging with contemporary art and creating new results. How do you categorize a photograph of a painting printed on fabric and sewn into a couture design?”  This exhibition will showcase the creative relationship between art and fashion.  A limited number of pieces will be available through the gallery and on-line at www.maryjomatsumoto.com.

A reception will be held on Thursday, March 17, 2011 from 6 – 9 p.m.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., and by appointment.  For additional information on the exhibition, please contact Mario DeFlice at 323.937.5525, or by email at: mario@stephencohengallery.com.