Kara Springer is an artist based between New York and Toronto. She is particularly concerned with armature — the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of care and structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional …
shit! publication “So there are no differences, then: we’re each a flesh ribbon that, due to the law of gravity, begins in the mouth and ends in the anus.” Paul Preciado, Anal Terror. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present shit!, a group exhibition organized by TJ Shin, a former artist-in-residence of the …
Join LES Studio Program resident Christie Neptune on AAI’s Instagram live for a three-part lecture series beginning Tuesday, April 7 at 7p. Each week, Neptune will discuss current projects and past works through the lens of broader subjects including the social implications of community development, racism in America, and counter-narratives. Schedule Tuesday, April 7 at …
Image: Predrag Pavić, Parachute, from the series Succeeding Dangerously, 2018, Video, 3:09 min loop. Photo: Boris Cvjetanovic Per Key to NYC guidelines, all visitors (12 or older) are required to show proof of vaccination upon entering the gallery. Click here to find out where to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and …
Judit Kis is the winner of the 2020 Acax Leopold Bloom Young Visual Art Award. Her video performances and virtual diaries reflect on the experiences and traumas that shape identities, personal boundaries and behavioral patterns. Kis explores the possibility to integrate healing rituals in her practice through experiments with sculpture and the digital engagement of her …
PressShe Performs, Interview with Dominique Duroseau Public ProgramRap on Race without Rice: A Conversation SeriesParts I through III available online How can we go about occupying spaces and forging relationships while we can be seen as disposable? In gal·va·nizing strat·e·gies: [Black on Black with Black], former LES Studio Program resident Dominique Duroseau explores pillars of …
Peter Erik Lopez is a painter and recent graduate of the Transart Institute for Creative Research. His medium of choice is oil on canvas. He started with portraiture but realized his primary interest in painting people was hearing their stories as he worked: it was narrative and personal histories that attracted him. This initiated a …
“When prophecy becomes reality, art can be one of the many ways to explore possible solutions. Some of you may think that contemporary art is unreachable, but it comes from the challenges we encounter every day. It is created from our everyday surroundings, even groceries.” – Mo Kong Following a series of prompts created by …
[left] Alica Grullon, “April 28, 2020: As Amazon, Walmart, and Others Profit Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Their Essential Workers Plan Unprecedented Strike-https://theintercept.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-may-1-strike-sickout-amazon-target-whole-foods/”, 2020. Archival Digital Print. From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers, Bronx Museum. [right] Miranda Guzman, Essential Workers: A Self Portrait, 2021. “In this body of work, I simultaneously document my time …
Known for his monumental installations and paintings with different materials and contexts, poetic investigation into the architectural, Political and archaic structures Shotiko Aptsiauri has successfully united different mediums and complexities into his own art practice. He is using time and contexts as a working medium. Exhibiting in public spaces, making illegal architectural occupations, working with …
