For Amanda, Oscar, and Sasha, friendship has always shaped their work. On Fire Island, they three painters debut their first collaboration. Exquisite Corpse takes its inspiration from the collaborative Surrealist parlor game invented in the 1920s, embracing chance, intuition, and collective authorship as methods of making. Throughout their residency, Man Car Sash (Amanda Ba, Oscar yi Hou, and Sasha Gordon) have loosely interpreted the game’s principles across painting, photography, video, works on paper, and mixed media, creating an exhibition that explores the unexpected connections that emerge through collaboration and friendship.

Amanda Ba (b. 1998) is a painter who lives and works in New York City. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, but spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Working closely with post-colonial theory, art history, and the aesthetics of violence, Ba’s work interrogates the relationship between formation of identity and the figurative tradition. Each body of work addresses a new topic of research, ranging from sports and nationalism to urban development in China to our relationship to the spectacle of death.

In her luminous and hyperrealistic paintings, Sasha Gordon (b. 1998) often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision and rigor, the artist’s visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as a kind of unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience. Gordon was born in Somers, New York. She received a BA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 2020. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, presented a solo exhibition of Gordon’s work titled Surrogate Self from 2023 to 2024. Other recent solo presentations featuring the artist’s work include Haze, David Zwirner, New York (2025); The Flesh Disappears, But Continues To Ache, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2023); Hands of Others, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022); and Enters Thief, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021).

Oscar Yi Hou (b. 1998 in Liverpool, England) received his BA at Columbia University, New York. Solo exhibitions include The beat of life, James Fuentes, New York (2024); A sky-licker relation, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2022); A sky-licker relation, James Fuentes, New York (2021). Other solo exhibitions include James Fuentes, New York; and Crane Seeking Comforts, T293 Gallery, Rome (2021). Yi Hou has participated in group exhibitions at Pace Gallery, Hong Kong; WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Gallery 12.26, Dallas; T293 Gallery, Rome, Italy; Sprüth Magers Online; Asia Society, New York; Tong Art Advisory, New York; Half Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner, New York; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; and the Royal Academy, UK. His work is in the permanent collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, ICA Miami, New York Historical Society, Columbus Museum of Art, Cantor Arts Center, and M+ Museum. James Fuentes Press published Vol. 6: Oscar yi Hou in 2022.