For YinHua Chu (b. 1980), constant travel between different cities has caused the ideas and images associated with each to bleed into one another, and provided a stock of urban memories and associations that allows her to feel on intimate terms with any foreign city. She believes that one’s perception of the city is made …
Ta-Wei Huang (b. 1988) does not have an academic background in art. As a child he drew compulsively but discovered he wanted to become an artist when he studied marketing in college. As an artist, Huang understands creativity as a moving and fluid process. Whereas he considers that future and past belong to the realm of …
Really Large Numbers (RLN) is a laboratory that encompasses the individual and collaborative experiments/expeditions of Chad Stayrook and Julia Oldham. Early in 2011, the two artists spontaneously began to dream about each other as characters in mythical dream adventures. Soon after the development of their Dream Thread, they had a series of discussions that led …
Rebecca Howard is an artist and producer from the U.K; her practice seeks to explore notions of dialogue and interaction, as well as the efficacy of forms such as sound, printed text and symposiums in establishing a new mode of exchange. In the Autumn of 2013, Rebecca was a Resident Curator at Node Centre for …
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is proud to present Data/Transfer/Object, the first New York exhibition by Detroit-based husband and wife collaborative Brian Barr and Lauren Rice. Like many of their previous collaborations, the exhibition will experiment with the intersection of photography, painting, and sculpture focusing on the shifting cultural significance of ideas, objects and images. …
Contemporary artist Heidi Zito’s work explores the traditional canon of landscape paintings through a process that incorporates the perspective of a digital lens. Influenced by surroundings and the beauty found in shortcomings of digitally captured imagery, she depicts time simultaneously passing and still through the use of superimposition and repetition of forms. Zito transforms an …
2014 Residency: May through June Enrique Figueredo (b. 1980 in Caracas, Venezuela) is moved by extremes: communism, capitalism, poverty, wealth, justice, injustice, guerillas, politicians, peasants and monarchs. He is most inspired by the actions a person or a nation can take, past or present, that shape our world and consciousness. Whether it’s positive or negative, a musician or …
Beatrice Scaccia works on duration, that is that dilatation of time composed of rhythmic scansions, waits and restarts. Her narrative urge and her need to express herself with figurative painting both originate from a strong communicative instinct that translates into drawings and animation, reminiscent of a certain Renaissance tradition that focuses its artistic study on …
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is honored to present The Real Estate Show, What Next: 2014. An extension of The Real Estate Show of 1979/1980, this exhibition will serve as a living project space, presenting new work that continues to question the impending re-development of the Seward Park Urban Redevelopment Area (SPURA) sites. By addressing certain …
Oro Dulce is an immersion into an agrarian artisanal production process, aiming to generate a discussion about new forms of urban-rural habitability in a territory of growing interconnectivity and hybridization; in a land that shakes constantly; with an increasingly globalized culture. The project originated in rural Pichingal located in the Maule Region in Chile where …
