Featuring Jane Benson, Nicole Cherubini, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ellen Harvey, Jason Hedges, Michael Mahalchick, Robert Melee, Clive Murphy Curated by Diana Shpungin Exhibition Dates: May 7 through June 26, 2011 CUCHIFRITOS is pleased to announce Dust to Settle, an exhibition that opens as part of the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City, …
Cuchifritos is proud to present Made and Unmade, a solo exhibition that presents the conceptual strategies and stylistic tendencies of visual artist, Manuel Acevedo through three bodies of work: the Alpha-Bits series, Glory wall drawing, Renau’s Room and Soldier’s Playground. The selection of work deploys covert and overt military language through encoded forms in hybrid typography, …
A character in a Borges story finds an old Chinese encyclopedia that presents a strange taxonomy of animals, dividing them into the following categories: (a) belonging to the Emperor(b) embalmed(c) tame(d) suckling pigs(e) sirens(f) fabulous(g) stray dogs(h) included in the present classification(i) frenzied(j) innumerable(k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush(l) et cetera(m) having just …
The unexpected return to idealism as experienced by five current students or recent graduates of NYC MFA programs Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space is pleased to announce A Curious Thread, curated by DTL Projects, a collective initiative by contemporary art curators. This group exhibition, the debut presentation by DLT projects, offers the work of five emerging …
Gail Biederman Through mapping, I examine the connections between body, identity, and place. Maps helps me realize where I am not only physically, but temporally and emotionally. Creating mood as much as meaning, my maps reconstruct places and events and restore them as new experiences. I often begin with ordinary street maps of the places …
Collected: Working Space 10 is AAI’s annual exhibition featuring works selected by guest curator Erin Riley-Lopez from artists participating on the Lower East Side-Rotating Studio Program, in Fall 09 and Spring 10. AAI sponsors the Lower East Side Rotating Studio artist residency Program with artists chosen by a panel of outside artists, curators, and arts professionals …
Kate Burnet and Dan Woerner Kate Burnet and Dan Woerner live and work in Long Island City, NY and the desert of west Texas on the Terlingua Ranch. They make videos, installations and sometimes objects that graft our memories of the past and our prospects for the future from from fragments of pop culture and …
Read the reviews on this exhibition: Time Out, NY and Washington Post Inside OUT is an exhibition that encompasses an aesthetic and abstract dissection of images, shapes, patterns and geometries captured from Lower East Side and the Essex Street Market locations in order to engage the audience in a dialogue with the surroundings. It proposes a visual recapitulation (or …
Cuchifritos is pleased to present Cafe Tschichold featuring Emiliano Godoy, Terence Gower, Sonia Lartigue, Tilman Wendland. Curated by artist Edgar Orlaineta. Cafe Tschichold will investigate terms like arts, science, technique, poetry and music. The exhibition will bring together a group of artists who deal with these kinds of dilemmas as praxis and will produce a collaborative …
Cuchifritos presents the exhibition “Yumi Janairo Roth: F.O.B.” featuring recent work by the artist. The exhibition will open on January 16, 2010 from 4-6 and will begin with a panel discussion including Roth, Suzanne Wasserman, Director of the Gotham Center for New York City History, and Nadine Wasserman, Curator of the exhibition. “F.O.B.” has a …
