Kemar Keanu Wynter, A Survey on Sorrel: From Drinks to Dyes, 2022. Photo: B. Oswald In summer 2022, New York-based artist Kemar Keanu Wynter led the workshop A Survey on Sorrel: From Drinks to Dyes, collaborating with students from District 1’s Summer Rising program. Sorrel, bissap, zobo and agua de Jamaica– a few of the many names for the …
Recent Artist Collaborations with AAI Partners Whoop Dee DooGorgeous ForkMay 15, 2021Garden of the Humanitarians (LES, NYC) In the spring of 2021, LES Studio Program resident and New York-based collective Whoop Dee Doo worked with local youth connected to the Garden of the Humanitarians in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the Classical Indian …
Location LES Studio Program Resident Studio inside The Clemente (LES, NYC) Open Studios 2021 In January 2021, Artists Alliance co-presented the 24th annual Open Studios with The Clemente supporting over 50 artists and organizations. Along with four days of virtual programming–artist talks, video-based work, live and recorded performances–AAI organized PSOS21 with Clemente residents. The installation …
Location Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space in Essex Market (LES, NYC) Selection of Recent Exhibitions Dominique Duroseaugal·va·nizing strat·e·gies: [Black on Black with Black]On view May June 11 through August 14, 2021Artist-in-Residence Exhibition In gal·va·nizing strat·e·gies: [Black on Black with Black], former LES Studio Program resident Dominique Duroseau navigated the false monolith of Black existence. A [re]-fusing …
If you would like to contribute to this project, please watch the orientation video and complete this intake form. Drawn Together will facilitate the creation of updated organizational bylaws through the work of Anaïs Duplan, Maia Chao, and Yxta Maya Murray for Cuchifritos Gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City. Drawn Together …
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Sweety’s Radio: Edicion Especial culminates with an exhibition showcasing the individual work of Sweety’s members. A group of friends and collaborators that came together to address the lack of spaces explicitly for black and brown artists, Sweety’s developed and continues to provide a platform for queer artists of color.In this final exhibition, the four members–Ximena …
GALLERY TEXT (En Español)Raul grew up between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and his drawings often reference the landscape, buildings, and characters from his childhood. Raul’s work on Lowriders in Space is done completely in ballpoint pen, a decision to reference his first tools as a young artist, often making fan art of comic …
GALLERY TEXT (En Español) Elia Alba’s installation for Sweety’s Radio: Edición Especial will include three videos, Unruhe, Se Revela, Se Devela and Gigglers, all made between 2001 and 2010. These works show Alba’s manipulation of reality as fantasy and vice versa, always within a societal framework informing this dynamic. In Unruhe, Alba focuses on this German word, meaning …
GALLERY TEXT (En Español) This year marks the 20th anniversary Emanuel Xavier’s self-published chapbook Pier Queen, a poetic manifesto about his personal experiences coming of age as a former street hustler, drug dealer/addict, homeless youth and survivor of child abuse. To celebrate this LGBTQ Latinx and POC milestone, Rebel Satori Press has reissued the book …
