Leasho Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans a wide range of formats and media, including ceramics, murals, mixed media, street art, graphic design and found objects. During his residency at RU, he will expand a body of work that aims to redress the global lack of understanding of traditional Jamaican Dancehall culture. “Jamaican …
‘Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many …
2016 Residency: August Born in Chongqing in 1981, Shurui Li is a 2004 graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Shurui Li has been hailed as a leading emerging female Chinese artist by The New York Timesand International Herald Tribune and is one of the few women to hold solo shows in China’s commercial art …
Ira Eduardovna was born in Uzbekistan. She currently lives and works in NY. Eduardovna’s work reconstructs narratives of autobiographical nature and examines issues of migration and identity in flux through non-linear storytelling. Her video installations examine the border of video and architecture and the influence of architecture on the experience of time and memory. Awards …
Book available for purchase here. Breaking up is hard to do” – Neil Sedaka It starts with a need to understand. How do you explain what went wrong? Which moments sum up a relationship? You tell the story once and it becomes just that—a story. Sometimes you tell it to make yourself feel better, or …
Pouya Afshar is an alumnus from the California Institute of Arts Character Animation department and is a graduate of University of California Los Angeles Graduate Department of Film and Television focusing in Animation and Digital Media. He has exhibited his work as an animator and visual artist throughout Los Angeles and United States at renowned …
Presented as part of the Workspace 2016 series, featuring the work of LES Studio Program artist-in-residence Arianna Carossa and alumna Beatrice Glow. “With myths, one should not be in a hurry. It is better to let them settle into the memory, to stop and dwell on every detail, to reflect on them without losing touch with their language of …
Recent PressBedford + Bowery “This Artist Turns Street Scraps Into Zany Readymades That Speak to LES History”The Lo-down “‘DelanceyRivingtonNorfolk’ Featuring Found Objects, Opens at Cuchifritos Tomorrow”Arte Fuse “Denise Treizman gives trash a new life at Cuchifritos Gallery” Cuchifritos Gallery is pleased to present Denise Treizman’s first solo exhibition in New York, DelanceyLudlowRivingtonNorfolk. This recent body …
Across my entire practice, from site-specific projects to land art, I strive to create work that emerges from the environment in which I’m called to realize a project. This particularity is the strongest feature of my practice; it drives me to search for situations or moments where the design of an object itself can relate …
Recent PressGrafting Puerto Rican Architecture onto the Lower East Side, Allison Meier, Hyperallergic New York, NY– Born in Puerto Rico and residing for decades in Chicago, artist Edra Soto has found many ways over the years to transplant forms of Boricua domesticity to a mainland context. With her GRAFT project, which has been realized in …
