Art runs throughout Kyle DeWoody’s family. Her mother is art collector Beth DeWoody, and her father, Jim DeWoody, and older brother, James “Carlton” DeWoody, are artists. So it’s no surprise that Kyle co-founded the art-meets-design space Grey Area with her business partner, Manish Vora.
Filled with a mix of quirky art, fashion, and design objects like her brother’s Best Friends Board and the ubiquitous Shelter Serra platinum silicone fake Rolex, the Soho loft space that houses Grey Area also carries a bit of art-world history –artists Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons once used it as a studio. The business has been keeping DeWoody busy. It recently announced a holiday gift collaboration with Helmut Lang that features work by a few artists who work with Grey Area.
As a member of the Whitney Contemporaries Executives Committee, DeWoody was put with the task of conceptualizing a project for the museum’s annual Studio Party next week. “I wanted to do something accessible and relevant to photography as it is in today’s culture,” she told ARTINFO. She commissioned artists like Dustin Yellin and Daniel Arsham to create Instagram images. “It’s been interesting just seeing artists engaging with Instagram, whether they’re using it to make work, or create images that are in mind with their practice, or just documentation,” said DeWoody. “Some of artists have never used Instagram and didn’t know what it was is.” The museum has been posting the photos without the artists’ identities on their Instagram stream, but on Tuesday their names will be revealed and partygoers can purchase the 4 x 4 images for $100 each.
DeWoody’s style earned her a spot on ARTINFO’s best-dressed list earlier this year, and her artful, playful taste landed her a spread in Vogue. For the latest installment of our Tastemaker series, DeWoody told us about her beauty secrets — cocoa butter lotion and apple cider vinegar — and the white leather slip-on Keds she adores.
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