At 17-years-old, Elisa Jimenez manifested a dream to make art her life and life her art. She now works as a transdisciplinary artist and healer who surrounds herself with very talented people who believe in collaboration and conscientious capitalism. She traveled from TX to NYC to follow the dream and be herself. 25 years later, after working successfully as a solo entrepreneur, Elisa talks to The Remix about the influence of her family and friends (her tribe); her beginning as a mulit-disciplinary performance artist who spun webs throughout NYC to create a vortex of goodness; how a random passerby liked her dress and threw her into the world of fashion; artificial divisions; slow design; how her values have never waned, regardless of how hard that may be; what happens when health issues change your perspective; how to calculate loss and acknowledge success; and how to find systems to work with your personality. She talks ups and downs, the challenges, and upholding her ethics.
Elisa Jimenez is an interdisciplinary artist in fashion design, writing, drawing, painting, performance art, photography, and art installation. Her main ongoing project is called "The Hunger World," a world of marionettes ranging from 2 inches to 30 feet in height. Vogue discovered Jimenez as "the scoop" and has consistently acknowledged her as being at the forefront of the new avant-garde as well as one of the top 10 American Designers in the independent realm. Her designs have appeared in the pages of Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Dutch, Black Book, Paper Mag, Jane, and Trace. She has worked for a number of actors, musicians, films and television programs, including: Melissa Auf der Maur, Cher for her Believe album, Jennifer Connelly for her character in Requiem for a Dream, Marisa Tomei, Courtney Love, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City, Pink, Cameron Diaz, and art photographer Cindy Sherman. Jimenez was invited to be in the Barbican Gallery's exhibit and book Rapture: Art and Fashion Since the 1970s, curated by Chris Townsend of London. She was represented by Holly Solomon and continues to show her art and fashion in traditional and unexpected ways.
