The bids are in and, following three years of an intense review process and over 40 years of contention, the fate of more than six empty acres across the street and this very site in which we are standing will finally be announced with the selection of a developer as early as this fall. What …
The Essex Street Market is a cultural staple of the Lower East Side. The diversity of the vendors allows visitors to experience the market and community’s evolution—a balance between old and new, past and present, converging in one place. Since its founding in 2001, Cuchifritos Gallery & Project Space has brought contemporary art into this environment …
Dem’ Golden Slippers is a performance and installation inspired by the street vendors and self-employed peddlers originally housed in the Essex Street Market. The exhibition explores the shoe shining trade and act of hustling that once energized the Market by setting up shop in Cuchifritos Gallery and inviting visitors to have their shoes gold-leafed. The …
SexEd: Chapter 1 at AAI’s Cuchifritos Gallery is the first of a series of exhibitions by Liz Slagus & Norene Leddy, to be hosted in several different venues. These exhibitions will serve as platforms for knowledge-sharing and community participation in the building of a comprehensive and collaborative, artist-inspired sex education curriculum. This exhibition is a …
The exhibition, Bring the Lights Into the Shot by Ellie Krakow stars the behind-the-scenes mechanisms of movie and image making. The show centers on a text Krakow wrote, entitled Shine, which is presented in its entirety as an artist’s book, and incorporated as fragments in her video of the same title. The text uses the …
Focusing on the landscape of the American West, Lithic Habitats explore the connections between natural architectural forms and man-made structures. Humans have long elevated rock formations to iconic and sacred destinations meant for pilgrimage and exploration, as well symbols of national and state identity. This inspiring landscape is often contrasted with weathered man-made buildings throughout …
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of two artists who are committed to abstraction, and particularly to its exploration in terms of the intersection of color, form, and medium. Working in fabric, plastic, vinyl, Plexiglas and other assorted materials, Ivelisse Jiménez and Doreen McCarthy both approach the solid forms of geometry, the patterning of abstraction and the simplicity …
Traces are a connection between past and presence. In her new installation Anton, Sonya Schönberger adopts a non sentimental approach as she sheds light on the consequences from bygone occurrences to the present day and searches for a reality in the state of the past, which happens in the awareness of being not more than …
Bivalence: Working Space 12 presents the work of eight artists selected to participate in Artists Alliance Inc’s Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 LES Studio Program. The exhibition queries the tensions that arise from the sculptures, videos, and installations, asking the viewer to consider what truth—or truths— of individual experience these contemporary works bring to the …
Featuring Victoria Bradbury, Elizabeth Tolson and Steina Vasulka Curated by Nick Garofoli Opening Reception: Saturday, June 9, 4-6pmClosing Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, July 7, 4-5pmExhibition Dates: June 7 through July 8, 2012Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 12-6pm
