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Posted @withregram • @aai_nyc A Light Without Shadow, No. 15_Sandra Erbacher (@sandra.erbacher) & Eddie Villanueva (@eddievillanueva) . 1/2 . Sandra Erbacher & Eddie Villanueva Covid 19 Diary Series Mix media drawings on various papers March 2020 - on going . 1- Sandra Erbacher - Availability of Childcare in Correlation with Mental Health during Covid19 2- Sandra Erbacher - Charting Anxiety 3- Sandra Erbacher - Charting Depression 4- Sandra Erbacher - Level of Fatigue 5- Eddie Villanueva - Sleep Consistency During Quarantine 6- Sandra Erbacher - Summative incomplete Tasks and their Consequences 7- Eddie Villanueva - Pattern of Distribution of Clothes in House 8- Sandra Erbacher - Stacked Stress Levels, Modular Analysis 9- Sandra Erbacher - Drawing Breath 10- Eddie Villanueva - Taxonomy of Wildlife spotted while living in Quarantine . #ALightWithoutShadow #SandraErbacher #EddieVillanueva #ArtistsAllianceInc #ArtistsAlliance https://www.instagram.com/p/CFF4ekElI60/?igshid=f8qtiewxra9j

[autvisualarts]

Visual Arts at AUT would like to thank ARTISTS ALLIANCE, Executive Director Maggie Gresson and the Board, and all of the amazing people who have been part of the organisation over the past 27 years, for everything!

What an incredible friend, resource and service to lose!

First and foremost, we want to acknowledge the truly enormous contribution Artists Alliance has made to our visual arts community, and to the many artists emerging and established who have benefitted from your advice and professional services.

Since 1991, Artists Alliance has been the go-to place for the need-to-knows for NZ artists and arts-related workers. Some of us were there in the beginning and know what it took then and what it takes now in 2018 to achieve the organisation's mission to "represent and advance the professional interests of visual artists in Aotearoa New Zealand". You did a great job, Artists Alliance!

As facilitators of professional opportunities and knowledge sharing, we will sorely miss your voice and steady presence … and your interest in what we are all doing !! Taking an "active leadership role in arts advocacy issues in New Zealand", you have kept your promise to artists to help “navigate the arts sector and find where you fit”. Thank you :)

Furthermore, we know our AUT Visual Arts graduates have benefitted 'many times over' from the various workshops and programmes you've provided in support of their ambitions to be active exhibiting and participating artists in the art community. In turn, we have always appreciated being able to recommend Artists Alliance to our students as a place where they can get professional support through membership, mentoring, internships, volunteering, bootcamp, workshops, seminars and talks –and by visiting the office.

Thank you, thank you, thank you … Maggie & Artists Alliance for being part of and looking after our art community for the past 27-years!

You have been AWESOME and we will miss you!

- Ngā mihi nui, Visual Arts at AUT staff and students, current and alumni xx

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Feed Me A Story’s final performance “Brunch” at Essex Street Market this Sunday at noon. Thank you @artistsalliance and Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space for hosting us!

[existencehere]

And Yet Another Look at the LES

Last Wednesday, we made our way back to the Bowery. Our destination: New Inc. Behind a heavy door attached to the New Museum and several keycard checkpoints exists the home of the New Museum led collaborative incubator. New Inc’s goals includes a creating a think-space to generate ideas and encourage the New York creative community. The feel of the space is very New Museum/Google start-up, all glass rooms and shiny white furniture and Mac computers and a work-space bar with accompanying stools.

There we met up with Bennington alum Lindsay Howard, who like our internet-art thesis friend from the previous week, is very interested in the digital art world and creating a feasible market for it. Can you buy digital art, an otherwise non-tangible media? Can you own a website as art? How about a Youtube video?

The answer is yes.

The art market has adapted to encompass this new wonderful part of it. It’s also an interesting way for artists to have more control over their artwork. It doesn’t just go to the buyer to never be seen again until it shows up at an auction. It can still be seen by the public and still generate more value, some simply by the increasing number of views. It’s incredible to think about.

Artists set their own terms in what the buyer owning the art actually means. Some gift the buyer with a physical object such as a customized flash drive. Others add the owner’s name to the web address bar. While it will continue to exist online, the buyer owns the art.

Though digital art certainly still has its critics, it’s not going anywhere and the market for it is certainly growing.

Artists Alliance/Cuchifritos Gallery/Essex Market

Artists Alliance is a non-profit dedicated to supporting emerging contemporary artists. The organization offers studio space, residencies, and also runs a gallery, Cuchifritos, located Essex Market. It has also initiated a cool project where artists take over empty stalls in the market and implement some kind of pop-up art exhibition.

The Artist Alliance space is located in what used to be a school. It’s creaking floors and ragged walls are now dedicated to creative work: artist studios, a gallery, theaters, and the remnants of past art exhibitions.

Cuchifritos in Essex Market

Down the street from Artists Alliance is Essex Market. Inside of Essex Market is Cuchifritos Gallery. Located at the end of the gallery behind glass doors  is Jules Gimbrone’s exhibition for Threshing Floors.

The moving soundtrack beneath and around the installed pieces. A bench that you can feel free to sit on. It's very tactile tease of the senses.

Essex Market Inside of Essex Mart is proof that art does exist in the everyday world and that an exhibition/gallery space can certainly be a food stall. The idea of a gallery space existing alongside of tea and cookies and canned beans is pretty awesome.

The artists exhibiting in the stalls were prompted to create something that people would not take. One artist presented lots of things glued down. Another offered just a peek inside a curtained out space held apart by a couple of large bricks.

It shows that art doesn't have to be this huge, deep meaningful thing but something simple enough to exist in between the stalls of a market but complex enough to draw a few minutes attention away from grocery shopping.

It's nice to think that someone who doesn't go to galleries or art museums or even think of art in this way will see art in some new way.

[mylittleveny]

A solo exhibition by Beatrice Scaccia with ceramics contributed by Toshiaki NodaCurated by Jodi Waynberg

On View: November 14 – November 30, 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, November 14; 5-7pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12-6pm

New York, NY—Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is thrilled to present Little Gloating Eve, a solo exhibition of recent work by Beatrice Scaccia. The evolution of an ongoing body of work, this installation acts as an immersion into the human condition, inviting us into the life of Scaccia’s central character, Eve. Rendering movements ranging from banal to absurd (cooking, dancing, listening to music, eating flowers), Scaccia uses the faceless Eve concealed in layers of grey clothing and padding, to construct a narrative of fragments and repetition in dilated time. A close emulation of dozens of simple, borrowed actions, Scaccia deconstructs these familiar gestures to build her own fiction — fixed in the pattern of a wallpaper, the loop of an animated gif, or the edges of a panel — revealing both the foolishness and wonder of our routines. 

First appearing in 2010, Eve’s world has evolved from two-dimensional planes into an immersive installation of wallpaper, drawings, works on panel, animations, a garden of ceramic flowers created by Japanese artist Toshiaki Noda, as well as a soundtrack made by the French musician Lionel Laquerriere. Once trapped in a cell-like room with only a single small window to reflect the world beyond her rigid confines, Little Gloating Eve offers us the first opportunity to enter Eve’s universe. As a protagonist, Eve is both sinister and playful, suspended between being a child and a play toy; an attempt to return to the lightness and magic of childhood that has since been lost to time. With a story told through syncopated moments, Scaccia creates a sense of freedom, one that is relieved of the burdens of reason and judgement.

For this incarnation of the project, Scaccia invited dozens of Italian elementary school students to draw Eve doing one thing, based on a written description of the character. This resulted in a remarkable collection of drawings, which will be on view in the gallery, that have in turn influenced many of Scaccia’s own representations of Eve. As Scaccia explains, “Isolation is the worst risk an artist can experience. My very first idea was completely different. Throughout dialogues and discussions, I understood that my needs were elsewhere. I became too attached to some executive manners, losing the urgencies.” 

[artistsalliance]

Stop by Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space to see the final week of Afterimage with work Taiwanese artists YinHua Chu and Ta-Wei Huang.

[artistsalliance]

Interested in curating an exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space? Submit your proposal to our Curatorial Open Call by February 1 for consideration in our 2015 exhibition schedule. Details below: 

  Curatorial Open Call  Application deadline: February 1, 2014

We are pleased to invite independent curators and arts professionals to submit exhibition proposals to be considered for the 2015 Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space exhibition schedule.

Selection Process Reviewed by the Artists Alliance Inc Curatorial Advisory Committee–comprised of representatives from the local contemporary arts community–proposals will be selected based on conceptual rigor and artistic quality. Consideration will also be given to the individual/group’s ability to meet the artistic mission of Artists Alliance Inc and Cuchifritos Gallery. Successful applicants will articulate a particular need or desire to exhibit within Cuchifritos Gallery and the surrounding community.

When submitting proposals, please carefully review and follow the guidelines outlined below. Applications that do not follow the submission guidelines will not be considered. Please note, you do not have to be a professionally trained curator to submit a proposal as submissions will be judged on merit; however previous exhibition experience will be weighed as an important factor in the selection process. We strongly encourage one, two, and three artist exhibitions, given the smaller scale of the gallery space. Artists who are acting in the curatorial role for the proposed exhibition may not submit a proposal that includes his/her own work.

Selection Criteria -     Quality of the proposed exhibition [preference given to new and site-specific work] -     Need to exhibit in Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space [based on Project Proposal] -     Project feasibility [based on Project Proposal] -     Artistic merit and professional record [based on artist(s) and curator(s) bios, CV, and work samples]

Eligibility All artists and curators are eligible – regardless of age, gender, or nationality – EXCEPT: -     those who are currently enrolled in a college or university program -     those who currently have NYC gallery representation

Click here for submission guidelines.

[artistsalliance]

We couldn't have imagined of a more exciting evening for the opening of Connected! Endless thanks to everyone who was able to join us in celebrating this amazing exhibition and big ups to Jess Rees and Lauren Testa for making our dreams come true. Also, many thanks to Brooklyn Brewery for making sure no one went home thirsty. 

If you're in the New York area, be sure to see the show before it closes on Wednesday, November 20. 

Please contact us at gallery@artistsallianceinc.org if you're interested in a particular work or artist(s).

[artistsalliance]

A selection of work from our upcoming exhibition Connected. Be on the lookout for additional new work in the coming week. We hope to see you at the opening at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space on Thursday, November 14! 

Featured artists include Kelly Froh, Amanda Manitach, Brad Aldridge, Allyce Wood and Sharon Arnold

To inquire about a specific work or artist, please contact us at gallery@artistsallianceinc.org

[artistsalliance]

Drink for a good cause! 

Join us this Friday, October 4, from 6-10 PM at CultureFix on the Lower East Side and catch up with the Artists Alliance gang - get to know our staff, learn about our programs, peruse some affordable artwork and hear what we have planned for the coming months. By having a drink with us, you'll also be supporting our organization. Our pals at CultureFix will be donating $1 for every drink sold, so bring your friends and drink up! 

May the warmth of giving today, ease the hangovers of tomorrow...

Special thanks to Enrique Figueredo for his crazy drawing skills.