PAST EXHIBITS:

2008

Working Space 08

Corpus Kinetics

An ART (INTER) ACTIONS project

Curated by Zeina Assaf

July 5 - July 26

Our Lens

An ART (INTER) ACTIONS project

June 26 - June 28

José Ruiz: "Cash Sold Here"

Curated by Heng-Gil Han

Artist: José Ruiz

May 10-June 14

If There Ever Was
an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells

Curated by Robert Blackson

Artists: Koan-Jeff Baysa, Bertrand Duchaufour, Christoph Hornetz, Christophe Laudamiel, Patricia Millns, Steven Pearce, David Pybus, Geza Schön

March 22 - April 26

L.E.S. - Laterally Evolving Systems

Curated by Paul Clay and Barb Monoian

Artists: Phillia Kim Downs Jordan Downs & Jessica Tamson, Chris Jordan, Paul Olsen, Mike Taylor, You=Love

February 9 - March 1

2007

Imaginary Arsenals

Artists: Artists: Jane Benson, Stephen Collier, Diane Meyer, Graham Parker, Kanishka Raja, Nathan See, Dan Tague

Curated by Kimberly Lamm

(part of Out of Site, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Artist Residency Marks a Decade Downtown)

December 8, 2007 - January 19, 2008

This Ain’t No Grocery Store

Artist: David Baumflek

Curated by Naomi Beckwith

November 3 - November 24, 2007

Up as if Down

Artists: Shara Hughes, Peter Kreider, Moises Saman

Curated by Mari Spirito

September 22 - October 27, 2007

Working Space 07

Artists: Paolo Bertocchi, Ernest Concepcion, Rachel Frank, Haegeen Kim, Fay Ku, Stephanie Lempert, Dulce Pinzon, Adam Smith

Curated by Tricia YunJoo Paik

August 4 - September 8, 2007

Exercises in Resourcefulness

Exercises in Resourcefulness brings together two artists, Larry Bamburg and Mai Braun, who push the limits of what can be done with ordinary materials such as paper, a simple electrical fans, cardboard boxes, or even, string.

Artists: Majlena Braun and Larry Bamburg

Curated by Simone Subal

May 5 - June 9, 2007

POS-IT

A multimedia exhibition in collaboration with Bennington College students taking a fluxus-like approach by blurring the line between the formal concept of the gallery and the boisterous interactivity of the commercial food market.

Artist: Yoko Inoue

Curated by Andrea Salerno

March 17 - April 21, 2007

Marcy Freedman

Working with issues around artistic identity

Artists: Marcy Sue Freedman and Marcy B. Freedman

Curated by Anthony Marcellini

February 10 - March 7, 2007

2006

Place Marker

Using Robert Smithson's infamous and mythologized 1967 A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, N.J. as a launching point, artists were all asked to develop their ideas based on what could be found within the one block radius surrounding 120 Essex Street. Contrasting approaches coexist and contextualize one another, forming linkages.

Artists: Peter Eide, Nina Katchadourian, Brian McClave, Douglas Ross, Elizabeth Valdez

Curated by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

December 2, 2006 - January 20, 2007

Shinique Smith - No dust, no stain

A sculptural homage to a range of meditative spiritual practices which conjures a hybrid between the street and sacred space.

Artist: Shinique Smith

Curated by Sara Reisman

October 7 - November 11, 2006

WORKING SPACE 06

Artists from AAI's Rotating Studio Program Fall 05 and Spring 06.

Artists: Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua, Amy Chan, Cat Chow, Chitra Ganesh, Linda Griggs, Rune Olsen, Nola Romano, Jenny Rogers

Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Zeina Assaf

August 19 - September 23, 2006

Tokyo - Urban Agitation

Explores the work of two contemporary photographers capturing both the city and its absence.

Artists: Satoshi Kawai, Fuminori Nakamura

Curated by Taku Nishimae

July 8 - August 5, 2006

Permanent Adolescence

Explores the topic of a new century and currently evolving art practices within it.

Artists: Rosemarie Fiore, Charles Goldman, Carlos Mum

Curated by Mauricio Laffitte-Soler

May 13 - June 10, 2006

North/South of Which Border?

Latino and Latino-influenced artists working in and around New York City.

Artists: Edward Boros, Ariadna Capasso, caraballo-farman, De La Vega, Eduardo Difarnecio, Juan Carlos Pinto

Curated by Paul Clay

April 15 – May 6, 2006

Animal Magnetism

Uses Franz Anton Mesmer’s 1874 dissertation on "animal gravity" as a launching point to explore the work of nine artists.

Artists: Oreet Ashery, Karlos Carcamo, Andrea Frank, Scott Lifshutz, Douglas Kelley, Emma McCagg, Paul Mullins, Dan Perrone, Liselot Van der Heijden

Curated by Raúl Zamudio

February 11 - March 25, 2006

2005

Being There

An exhibition dealing with the idea of appropriation.

Artists: William Cordova, Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan

Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud

December 17 2005 - February 4, 2006

To Whom It May Concern

An Exploration of longing, and the subjective experience of duration.

Artists: Steven Gwon, Esperanza Mayobre, Jo Mikals-Adachi, and Greg Santos

Curated by Herb Tam

November 12 - December 3, 2005

Homeslice

Photograhy which engages both people and process.

Artist: Stephanie Diamond

Curated by: Dean Daderko

September 17th-October 15th, 2005

Working Space

Artists employing a wide variety of media, from AAI's Rotating Studio Program Fall 2004 and Spring 2005

Artists: Nina Buxenbaum, Eunjung Hwang, Nathan See, Jeffrey Gibson, Sun K. Kwak, Mary Ting, Adam Henry, Suzanne Najarian

Organized by: Suzanne Varni with Paul Clay

July 16 - September 3, 2005

Jack

Three approaches to the relationship between artwork, viewer, and narrative.

Artists: Ian Burns, Adam Cvijanovic, Gedi Sibony

Curated by Christopher K. Ho and Mari Spirito

May 21 - June 25, 2005

photographic self-portraits

A personal exploration of the genre.

Artist: Editha Mesina

Curated by Marisol Díaz in conjunction with Enfoco's Touring Gallery series

March 19 - April 30, 2005

Message In a Bottle

Based on the lyrics of the song by The Police, the work meditates on the notion of isolation.

Artist: Joe Borzotta

Curated by Chris Burkhardt, BAMA Gallery in Hoboken

February 5 - Marrch 5, 2005

2004

Represented By Retail

Explores a new crop of artists who are represented as much through retail stores as by galleries.

Artists: Charlie Becker, Billy, Dalek, Pete Fowler, Mary Fragapane, KAWS, Peter Missing, Junko Mizuno, Nicole Mueller, Takashi Murakami, Swoon, Janice Taylor.

Curated by Paul Clay

December 18, 2004 - January 22, 2005

Ming Fay

From Concept to Reality Mosaics for the Delancey St/Essex St subway station.

Artist: Ming Fay

Curated by Tania Duvergne In collaboration with MTA Arts for Transit

October 16th - November 20th, 2004

Cartoonisiada

Comic Art Forces of the Lower East Side/East Village.

Artists: Jack Kirby, David Wojnarowicz, Kim Deitch, Danny Hellman, Leslie Sternbergh, Seth Tobocman, Anton Van Dalen, Calvin Reid, James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook, Ivan Brandon Miles Gunter and Andy MacDonald

Curated by Joseph Fumetti

August 20th - October 2nd, 2004

Market Value

This exhibition explores the concept of value as a culturally transferred experience. The concept of value connects everything in an empirical fashion, and by extension, anything aesthetic, yet how we ascribe value is of equal importance to how we experience it.

Artists: Kristin Anderson, Marcy Brafman, David Henry Brown Jr, Heidi Cody, Rainer Ganahl, Susan Hamburger, Marni Kotak, Lisa Levy, Daniel Mirer, Ester Partegas, Alexander Reyna, Tom Schreiber

Curated by David Gibson

May 15th - August 7, 2004

Rubbish

Rubbish takes the daily functions of the Lower East Side’s Essex Street Market, in which Cuchifritos is situated, as its point of departure. Three artists use the detritus and goods produced by the market’s vendors to create new work.

Artists: Paul Amenta, Reynard Loki and Phoebe Washburn

Curated by Rachel Gugelberger

April 3 - May 1, 2004

Not Without A Star

Not Without A Star is a site-specific video installation exploring cross-cultural workings on individual identity, as experienced within local immigrant communities at the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side.

Artist: Taryn FitzGerald

Curated by Sebastien Agneessens

February 21 - March 20, 2004

2003

INSERT

Seeks to increase exchanges between the two contiguous yet disperate spaces of the CUCHIFRITOS gallery and the eateries which are adjacent to it. Besides sharing the same roof, what else do these enterprises and their audiences/customers have in common?

Artists: Helio Melo, Mariette Bouillet and Henri Louis Chalem, Giorgia Volpe and Jean Fran¨ois, Charmaine Wheatley, Jessica Marzagao, Monica Schoenacker

Curated by Thiago Szmrecsanyi

December 20, 2003- January 31, 2004

memento

Investigates the space, as an experience, that is created when one views reproductions of an individual or the self.

Artists: Soledad Arias, Madeline Djerejian

Curated by Berit Fischer

November 1 - December 6, 2003

ausderkunstweltkunslerenrumpelstiltskin

Artists not of the art world.

Artists: Adrian Cruz, R.J. Goricoff, Minn Matsuda, Gabriel Sanes, James S. Wong

Curated by Kóan-Jeff Baysa

September 20 - October 25, 2003

Bazaar

A brief documentary of graffiti through the artists who are practicing in the present moment .

Artists: Cer, David Ellis, Rage Johnson, Jest, Cris Mendoza, Ryan McGinness, Parlá, Ease*, Rey Parlá, Clayton Patterson, Pablo Power, Lee Quinones, Romon Yang, Rostarre

Curated by Jason Yang and Ease

August 9 - September 6, 2003

CARGO CULT

Acknowledges the huge influx of people of Mexican heritage which is now occurring in and around New York City, and the way the Lower East Side has traditionally served as a haven for new arrivals into the city .

Artists: Edgar Orlaineta, Buxton Midyette

An Installation dealing with consciousness and introspection.

Artist: Anne Beffel

Curated by Aaron Slodounik

March 29 - April 26, 2003

Artists: Christian Nguyen, Carole Loeffler

Also on view in the Essex Market artist projects by Michele Brody, Carolyn Kay, Kyle Riedel.

2002

Artists: Carrie Dashow, Devon Dikeou, Jill Epstein, Matthias Geiger, Tali Hinkis, Joni Lane, Susan Leopold, Mandy Morrison, Coralee Lynn Rose, Lizzie Scott, Patricia Smith

Artists: Ross Sinclair, Giancarlo Norese, Scott Rigby- Richard Allalouf & Andy Cox, Arni Gudmundsson, Franco Angeloni, Marius Engh, Joan Jonas, Ellen Harvey, Ayreen Anastas, William Gerbracht, Mark Alan Stamaty, Joseph Krupczynski, Justin Spivey, Kevin Schmidt, Ludovic Burel, Marty Spellerberg, Claire Canning, Grady Gerbracht, Tone Hansen, Per Hüttner, Tone O Nielsen, Patrick Bernier, Cesare PietroIusti, Max Presneill, Reid Shier, Gavin Wade, Måns Malmborg, Barnaby Drabble

Artists: Rainer Ganahl, Hannes Priesch, Stephan Pascher

intimate views in two cities.

Artists: Damien Cabanes, Jesse Fischler, Serge Kliaving, Renaud Monfourny, Tony Oursler, James Romberger, Marguarite Van Cook, David West, Joelle Jolivet

An installation - a special project dealing with breathing, purity, and danger.

brtist: Andrea Ray

2001

Artists: Javier Cambre, Nick Kline, Caitlin Masley

Artists: Phillys Baldino, François Bucher, Paul Giangrossi, Ben Judd, Alex Villar, Cecilia Lundqvist, Per Hüttner, Monica Oechsler, Florence Paradeis