Norwegian artist Jeanette Lafontine explores both the scientific and the fictional through painting, drawing and sculpture. In an effort to balance the familiar and the incomprehensible, her work oscillates between abstraction and representation allowing her to visualize something that might not exist but can only be imagined. By shifting styles, new processes are continuously revealed …
2014 Residency: November Based in New York, Ukrainian born/Australian raised artist Katya Grokhovsky works across disciplines including performance, video, installation, photography, sculpture, drawing, painting and text. Her work deals with issues of alienation, gender politics and migration through the displaced female body. Themes of endurance and identity constructions are explored through historical research and autobiographical …
Through the use of creative conceits, Noilin O Kelly pursues the occurrence of the uncanny, strange and a sense of ‘other’ within her practice. She is interested in the bodily responses produced by contact with the abject and the uncanny, particularly through the exploration of alternate concepts of space. Spaces that are simultaneously physical and …
“The work of Franck Lesbros is essentially video, yet in some ways, one could say that it is a hybrid between installation and sculpture. His films take scenery into ingenious models that are activated as puppets for the shoot. They are the only protagonists of an «atmospheric» disturbing action, backed by precise editing. Volumes are …
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and Residency Unlimited are pleased to present Afterimage, a month-long generative project by Taiwanese artists YinHua Chu and Ta-Wei Huang. Taking process as a central subject, Chu and Huang will use the gallery for both exhibition and studio, creating an ever-changing workspace to consider the visual resonance of an image, …
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 …
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 …
Traces are a connection between past and presence. In her new installation Anton, Sonya Schönberger adopts a non sentimental approach as she sheds light on the consequences from bygone occurrences to the present day and searches for a reality in the state of the past, which happens in the awareness of being not more than …
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) …
