Collectives, in many cases, are hard to pin down. They thrive on keeping their identities abstract and their missions nebulous, and there's always that tension between being exclusive and inclusive. To borrow Heidi Klum's phrase, in a collective, "you're either in, or you're out." Bruce High Quality Foundation is just the kind of artist troupe that is hell-bent on being hard to pin down, insisting on total anonymity and keeping the number of participants in flux. The core members of BHQF are graduates of Cooper Union in their late 20s who met in the early 2000s, and for two years they've been using a storefront space in Bushwick as their headquarters. Thanks to the constant stream of interest and support for their projects, it has been pretty much self-sustaining, and this fall, BHQF will move their hub to TriBeca. "We started working together at a moment when the art economy was more robust than it is now," says one of the conspirators. "It is a strange irony that the supposed collapse of the market suddenly generates interest in what we do."
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