Born in winter 2013, friends and collaborators Whitney Mercurio, creative director, couture fashion illustrator Mitja Bokun, fashion stylist Jules Wood and book producer, NPR commentator and humorist, Jim Downey, decided they had a lot to offer creative enthusiasts and the generally curious. Magazines on art and culture garner a lot of attention these days.
About J. Elster Pop Up Gallery & Store: Art, Film, and Fashion: Jennifer Elster is an American experimentalist, thinker, filmmaker, writer, photographer, performer, designer and founder of The Development – a private, underground, multi-faceted studio based in New York City where expansiveness is the currency.
Having spent the last ten years working underground, Elster has galvanized a veritable feast of artists, such as Yoko Ono, Terrence Howard and Alan Cumming, who have participated in her unusual films marked by her peculiar filmmaking. While editing, Elster created The Pouch Collection, thus introducing a new way to wear a bag; in compartments. She then began sculpting raw luxury accessories. Unfinished edges, jagged lines, and unexpected cuts are signature elements in J. ELSTER’s original philosophy of design.
The J. Elster gallery exhibition “The Retrospective of an Extroverted Recluse” will open April 6th.
