Featuring Lainie Love Dalby, Elisa Garcia de la Huerta, Andrae Hinds, Anya Liftig, Irvin Morazan and Dawn Frasch Like the maid at the churn or the epicure at supper, Butter Digger concerns a metaphorical state of spiritual inquiry and a transformation of matter through consciousness. Butter Digger utilizes strange appropriations of ritualism to comment on contemporary forms of worship …
Liene Bosquê Liene Bosquê received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Liene was born in Brazil, where she completed her BFA at São Paulo Estate University in 2004 and a baccalaureate in Architecture from Mackenzie University in 2005. While living in Lisbon, Portugal, she received in 2007 the …
Cuchifritos is pleased to host Trade School, an alternative learning space that runs on barter. Anyone can teach a class, and students sign up for classes by agreeing to bring barter items that the teacher requests. Trade School has hosted classes on everything from squatting the condos (in exchange for a kombucha mother and research …
Alison Owen’s installation Shelf Life came out of close observation of the Lower East Side neighborhood and its continual transformation, as well as respective functions, appearances and usual daily operations of both the Essex Street Market and Cuchifritos gallery. The work is inspired by the distinctions, similarities, overlaps and interactions of these two environments. Similar …
The Richard and Mica Hadar Foundation, in collaboration with Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, is pleased to announce Daeng’gi Kimchi Factory, an installation by Flora Choi. In her performance/installation, Choi substitutes chopped-off daeng’gi braids (a traditional Korean hairstyle worn by adolescent girls) for cabbage, and makes her own version of Kimchi. Choi confronts the male-dominated …
Curated by Jeanne Brasile Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12, 2011 4 – 6:30pm Exhibition Dates: November 12 through December 18, 2011 Pulvis et Umbra is a multi-media exhibition by the collaborative artist duo, Jones and Roa. Their practice consists of artwork that examines the nature of the object via the use of shadows and the …
Featuring John Bent, Calvin Burton, Cooper Holoweski, Ethan Shoshan Curated by Wayne Northcross Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 4 – 6:30pm Exhibition Dates: October 8 through November 6, 2011 Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6pm A failed state, in political and economic terms, denotes a process through which the boundaries of societal order and control …
Jan Baracz Born in Poland, Jan Baracz lives and works in New York. He is a graduate of NYU, Bard College and the Whitney Independent Study program and has been the recipient of awards from the Asian Cultural Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Artists Space and the Kosciusko Foundation, among others. …
Featuring Jaishri Abichandani, Nida Abidi, Fariba Alam, Vaidehi Kinkhabwala, Priya Nadkarni, Sadia Salim, Amruta Shah, Tuba Zaki, Hayat Gul, Vandana Jain Curated by Maymanah Farhat Opening Reception: Saturday, September 17 from 5–7pm Exhibition Dates: September 17 through October 2, 2011 Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 12-6pm Location: 120 Essex Street (inside Essex Street Market) Cuchifritos …
ART(INTER)ACTION Series Residency Unlimited at Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space. Beginning in 2011, Artists Alliance (AAI) and Residency Unlimited have joined forces to support each other’s programs. Residency Unlimited provides studio visits and specific networking support to the artists participating in the Lower East Side-Rotating Studio Program. As part of the exchange and AAI’s Art(Inter) …
