Click here to watch of video of The Nineteenth Hole in action at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, created by Chynna Campbell with music by Sutu. The Nineteenth Hole is an unconquerable putting green, which relates the challenges of the game of golf with the universal frustration of being unable to fulfill one’s ideals. The unattainability of being able to …
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present Mass Mediations, a group exhibition featuring the work of four emerging artists based in different locations across the globe. Despite the various social and cultural environments these artists come from, what universally binds the logic of their artwork and personal experiences together is contemporary life’s saturation …
A solo exhibition by Tatiana KronbergCurated by Chelsea Spengemann Exhibition Dates: October 12 through November 10, 2013Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 12-6pmLocation: 120 Essex Street (inside Essex Street Market) Trained as a photographer, Tatiana Kronberg is interested in objects and the negative space that surrounds them as well as the positive form that space implies …
“I look for the freedom that allows my painting to be everything. In a world where painting is too theorized I want to bring the anti-theory of its freedom. I explore this desire of liberty approaching each work in a different way, knowing that paintings have the right to be what the painter wants them …
A solo exhibition by Philip EmdeCurated by Jodi Waynberg in association with Residency Unlimited Check out images from the exhibition on our Tumblr. Created over a three-year period, Philip Emde’s trilogy of artist books–Misanthrop Ich, Schwarze Galle, and Arztbesuch–is a chronicle of drawings, quotes, and conversations collected from the artist’s personal experiences and observations. Reproduced page-by-page in the …
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 …
The Contemporary is a moment pulled from the flux; a flash of time somehow unaware of the relentless shifting of communities, buildings that rise and fall, storefronts that change and adapt, and landscape that readjusts to a changing climate. In this exhibition, three artists – Jessie Henson, Kate MacDonnell and Christy Speakman – explore 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 …
