Created through a series of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and personal objects, imago of a queer artist* offers space for an expanded notion of queerness as the capacity for porousness, fluidity, and transformation. The exhibition’s title (abbreviated here) is a deliberate tool providing a conceptual framework for the show and responding to overwhelming systems of categorization …
Javier Castro, Four Basic Things (Coconuts) (video still), 2018. Run time 06:40. Open Wounds Educational and Accessibility Materials (download PDF) Through a series of videos, installations, documents, and sculptures, Afro-Cuban artist Javier Castro’s solo exhibition Open Wounds questions the broken promises of a postcolonial world. While many of the practices at the center of the work …
Chaveli Sifre, Coconut bombs, 2016-present. Mixed media, dimensions variable. KIOSK Educational and Accessibility Materials (download PDF) Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present KIOSK, a group show curated by Guillermo Rodríguez featuring recent works by artists Rebecca Adorno, Javier Bosques, Danny Rivera-Cruz, and Chaveli Sifre, on view at 88 Essex Street from September 9 through …
Image designed by Anna Kenneth for Presence Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and Residency Unlimited (RU) are pleased to present the summer group show Presence, featuring works realized by RU artists-in-residence Jakub Choma (Czech Republic), Fernanda Feher (Brazil), Hamza Kirbas (Turkey), Enxhi Mehmeti (Germany/Kosovo), and Andrew M. Mezvinsky (Austria/US). Presence examines literal, conceptual, and metaphorical representations of the human. In …
Chinese Translation “In our society, there seems to be a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”– David Graeber, anthropologist “Everyday life is the primary terrain of social change.”– Silivia Federici, activist, Wages for Housework Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is …
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present Lounge of A Prophet, a solo show with recent works by former LES Studio Program resident Mo Kong, on view at 88 Essex Street from March 25 through May 21, 2022. Mo Kong’s Lounge of A Prophet at Cuchifritos Gallery will serve as a sequel to …
Download ART/WORK Publication Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space[88 Essex St, inside Essex Market, NYC]On View: December 10, 2021 through March 19, 2022 City Lore Gallery[56 East 1st St, NYC]On View: December 10, 2021 through April 10, 2022 Artists Alliance Inc. (AAI), a New York City visual arts non-profit supporting emerging artists and curators, and City Lore, New York …
shit! publication “So there are no differences, then: we’re each a flesh ribbon that, due to the law of gravity, begins in the mouth and ends in the anus.” Paul Preciado, Anal Terror. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present shit!, a group exhibition organized by TJ Shin, a former artist-in-residence of the …
To conclude Dominique Duroseau’s gal·va·nizing strat·e·gies: [Black on Black with Black] on view at Cuchifritos Gallery, Artists Alliance presents Rap on Race without Rice. A continuation of Duroseau’s ongoing participatory performance series, Rap on Race with Rice, this iteration of the project unfolds through a new series of one-on-one conversations that foster public and private …
Image: Predrag Pavić, Parachute, from the series Succeeding Dangerously, 2018, Video, 3:09 min loop. Photo: Boris Cvjetanovic Per Key to NYC guidelines, all visitors (12 or older) are required to show proof of vaccination upon entering the gallery. Click here to find out where to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and …
