Fernanda Feher, Femme Fatale, oil and acrylic on canvas, 55 x 70 inches Fernanda Feher is a multimedia artist who works mostly with collages and figurative painting (water-based oil paint and watercolors), but has also been experimenting with ceramic sculptures and installations. Feher subverts traditional portraiture by placing subjects in fantastic, sometimes impossible landscapes heavy …
Chaveli Sifre, Coconut bombs, 2016-present. Mixed media, dimensions variable. KIOSK Educational and Accessibility Materials (download PDF) Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present KIOSK, a group show curated by Guillermo Rodríguez featuring recent works by artists Rebecca Adorno, Javier Bosques, Danny Rivera-Cruz, and Chaveli Sifre, on view at 88 Essex Street from September 9 through …
Image designed by Anna Kenneth for Presence Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and Residency Unlimited (RU) are pleased to present the summer group show Presence, featuring works realized by RU artists-in-residence Jakub Choma (Czech Republic), Fernanda Feher (Brazil), Hamza Kirbas (Turkey), Enxhi Mehmeti (Germany/Kosovo), and Andrew M. Mezvinsky (Austria/US). Presence examines literal, conceptual, and metaphorical representations of the human. In …
Andrew M Mezvinsky, “A linear inspiration of Fritz Koenig”, 2021, 17:17 Video Animation Installation Loop Andrew M Mezvinsky is an artist who works in a variety of media. With the use of appropriated materials which are borrowed from a day-to-day context, Mezvinsky makes works that can be seen as mini-atmospheres. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and …
David Almeida, “Arriba do Chão”, 2021, Oil on ceramics, Photo by Ana Pigosso David Almeida’s research is developed around pictorial experimentation in various media and supports such as canvas, linen, wood, ceramics and engraving. His production has as its main focus the issues of space and the body on the move, exploring the visuality of …
Mo Kong, Food Preservation Workshop, 2022. Photo: Jodi Waynberg Mo Kong and Artists Alliance hosted a four-part workshop series on food preservation techniques with students from PS 19 and East Village Community School. The series explored the relationship between cultural tradition, celebratory customs, and food, using one of the most traditional cooking methods: fermentation. Working …
Chinese Translation “In our society, there seems to be a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”– David Graeber, anthropologist “Everyday life is the primary terrain of social change.”– Silivia Federici, activist, Wages for Housework Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is …
Wawrzyniec Gucewicz, White Christmas at the Russian hairdresser, 2021 Wawrzyniec Gucewicz is an architect and film director with a recent concentration on painting. After many years working in the film industry, he returned to painting in 2017 with a focus on people and the times they live in, their ideas and inventions. Gucewicz’s practice touches …
Casey is an artist and researcher focused on the interrelation between linearity, recursion, agency, organization, and self-organization within large social-technical-ecological systems. Casey graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology. He is a recipient of the 2021 Digital Diasporas Research Fellowship at Chronus Art Center, 2018 Center for …
In conjunction with the exhibition ART/WORK, City Lore and Artists Alliance present Artist Labor and the Legacy of CETA, a panel discussion, on March 18th at 6:30 pm. CETA pioneers from the Bay Area and New York City come together to discuss the impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act on artists and arts infrastructure across the …
