Jen Mazza In Jen Mazza’s small figurative oil paintings there is a dialogue between the plastic qualities inherent to painting and the instantaneous capture of the photograph. When reconstructing the photographic image, Mazza emphasizes the ‘skin’ of the painting: the surface is puckered, pulled -even torn through to reveal the imprimatura; thus magnifying the initial gesture and the emotion …
Artists employing a wide variety of media from AAI’s Rotating Studio Program, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Jane Benson, Megan Cump, Miwa Koizumi, Julie Ann Mann, Alice O’Malley, Mary Valverde, Claire Watkins, Heeseop Yoon Curated by Tatiana Arocha On View: August 2 through September 20, 2008 Reception: Saturday, September 6 from 4-6pm (part of Howl! …
Megan Cump My photographs fuse performative elements with traditional landscape imagery, in order to explore the metaphoric potential of the environment. My project, Feral, was shot while on solitary kayaking and hiking trips, using a medium format camera and basic camping supplies. In many works, traces of my body are visible as I merge with, …
Curated by Heng-Gil Han Exhibition Dates: May 10 through June 14, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10, 4-6 pm What is the meaning of an ATM? Located everywhere at a corner of a market or a store, and typically in close proximity to cashier(s), an ATM seems to provide us with a banking service convenient …
Featuring Koan-Jeff Baysa, Bertrand Duchaufour, Christoph Hornetz, Christophe Laudamiel, Patricia Millns, Steven Pearce, David Pybus, Geza Schön Curated by Robert Blackson Exhibition Dates: March 22 through April 26, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 22, 4-6 pm Cuchifritos Gallery is proud to host, If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells. Like a …
Featuring Phillia Kim Downs & Jordan Downs & Jessica Tamson, Chris Jordan, Paul Olson, Mike Taylor, You=Love Curated by Paul Clay and Barb Monoian Exhibition Dates: February 9 through March 1, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 9, 4-6 pm LES – Laterally Evolving Systems: In addition to the contemporary commercial art market, there are also …
Featuring Jane Benson, Stephen Collier, Diane Meyer, Graham Parker, Kanishka Raja, Nathan See, Dan Tague Curated by Kimberly Lamm Exhibition Dates: December 8, 2007 through January 19, 2008 Opening reception: Saturday, December 8, 4-6pm Imaginary Arsenals addresses the subtle and subversive use of war imagery by artists. Less interested in explicit depictions of war, the …
David Baumflek Curated by Naomi Beckwith Exhibition Dates: November 3 through November 24, 2007 Opening reception: Saturday, November 3, 4-6pm For more information please contact: Naomi Beckwith at naomi.beckwith@gmail.com According to an ancient Greek myth, Tantalus, a mortal king and son of Zeus, was invited to dine with the gods on Mt. Olympus. Tantalus – …
Featuring Shara Hughes, Peter Kreider, Moises Saman Curated by Mari Spirito Exhibition Dates: September 22 through October 27, 2007 Opening reception: Saturday, September 22, 4-6pm Cuchifritos presents “Up as if Down”, an exhibition of works by Shara Hughes, Peter Kreider and Moises Saman, which question common conceptions of “reality” as well as what we – …
Jane Benson Jane Benson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is about material and identity transformation and the atavistic tension between natural and artificial forms of beauty. Benson appropriates design of culturally significant objects in order to question their original conditions and purpose. Image: courtesy of the artist Julie Anne Mann Julie Anne …
