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SUMMARY:The Long Dark
DESCRIPTION:Collaborative exhibition bridging Cuchifritos Gallery and Parent Company\, organized in dialogue with Parent Company’s winter solo exhibitions. The group exhibition features works by Simon Benjamin\, Maria Jose Garcia Estevez\, Clare Koury\, Alyssa Matthews\, Carly Ries\, Viktor Timofeev\, and Dex Vandersall\, engaging writer and psychotherapist Francis Weller’s notion of the “long dark”—a period of descent\, gestation\, and transformation.
URL:https://macaccess.org/program/the-long-dark/
LOCATION:Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Canal Street Research Association (market)
DESCRIPTION:Cuchifritos Gallery is pleased to present a new project by AAI’s LES Studio Program residency alum Shanzhai Lyric. Designed in collaboration with architectural collective common room\, Canal Street Research Association (market) will be on view at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space from November 15\, 2025 through February 7\, 2026. \nLocated inside Essex Market on Manhattan’s Lower East Side\, the installation transforms the gallery into a hybrid research site and storefront\, examining how the politics of visibility\, commerce\, and belonging have shaped the city’s marketplaces for nearly a century. By situating the project within Cuchifritos Gallery\, Shanzhai Lyric links historical inquiry to the living economies that sustain the neighborhood. Visitors are invited to step into the installation\, browse its offerings\, and produce their own bootleg holiday cards\, joining an ongoing dialogue about creativity\, labor\, and survival in the city.
URL:https://macaccess.org/program/opening-reception-canal-street-research-association-market/
LOCATION:Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space
CATEGORIES:Visitors Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted,Visitors Who Are Deaf,Visitors who use American Sign Language Programs,Visitors with Autism,Visitors with Developmental Disabilities,Visitors with Hearing Loss,Visitors with Learning Disabilities,Visitors with Memory Loss,Visitors with Mobility Disabilities
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SUMMARY:Explicit!!!
DESCRIPTION:Reception Friday\, Apr 25 from 6-8p \nCuchifritos Gallery is very pleased to present Explicit!!!\, featuring new work by NYC-based artist Sue Jeong Ka on view from April 25 through June 21\, 2025. \nExplicit!!! builds on Ka’s ongoing investigation of the censorship practices within the U.S. carceral system\, focusing on publication bans across 26 states. Through her research\, Ka reveals how book censorship operates as a tool of racial\, sexual\, and cultural control. She illuminates biases that specifically target works by marginalized authors\, especially those presenting sexually liberal narratives or culturally non-Western perspectives. \nFor this exhibition\, AAI LES Studio Program alum (2023) Ka presents a series of site-responsive works\, including kinetic sculptures\, large-scale wall installations\, and a public program series that fosters vibrant dialogue among artists\, researchers\, and community members in the Lower East Side and Chinatown. These works invite visitors to reflect not only on prison censorship but also on the broader patterns of content suppression in public education and cultural institutions—systems intricately intertwined with the policing of racial and sexual knowledge. \nThe core of Explicit!!! is Ka’s data analysis of manga—a genre of comics and graphic novels predominantly created by East Asian artists. Across various state prison systems\, manga is frequently classified as “sexually explicit\,” leading to its prohibition in prison libraries and preventing its distribution to incarcerated readers. In parallel\, New York City public schools have removed manga titles like “Assassination Classroom\,” citing moral concerns regarding their content. These acts of censorship—whether in prisons or schools—are not isolated incidents; they embody a broader infrastructure that dictates which stories are acceptable and whose cultural expressions are silenced.
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