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F.O.B: Yumi Janairo Roth
Curator: Nadine Wasserman
January 16 – March 6, 2010
Opening Reception and panel discussion
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 4-6 pm
Cuchifritos presents the exhibition “Yumi Janairo Roth: F.O.B.” featuring recent work by the artist. The exhibition will open on January 16, 2010 from 4-6 and will begin with a panel discussion including Roth, Suzanne Wasserman, Director of the Gotham Center for New York City History, and Nadine Wasserman, Curator of the exhibition.
“F.O.B.” has a double meaning. It not only stands for “freight on board” but it is also a term used to mean “fresh off the boat” in reference to immigrants who have arrived from a foreign nation and have not yet “assimilated.” The Lower East Side, a historically immigrant community, is the perfect setting for the body of work Roth created during her recent residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. During her residency Roth gathered discarded shipping pallets from her Lower Manhattan environs and intricately inlayed each one by hand with mother-of-pearl using patterns gleaned from traditional Southeast Asian furniture and decorative objects. In this way, Roth re-considers a ubiquitous yet most often disregarded object. Given a second life, the pallets become surrogates for the immigrant experience. They are at once local and global.
In much of her work, Roth calls attention to objects that might otherwise be overlooked but that influence our lives without our taking much notice. The shipping pallets are re-imagined as decorative objects but since they are still rough, broken, and stained they retain their street cred as the workhorses of global shipping and commerce. In a sense they are symbolic of immigrants and guest workers--uprooted, often invisible, yet indispensable to the world market.
Most often generic and nondescript, the pallets, become representative of the way various ethnicities have inhabited the neighborhood, each bringing to it their own food and culture, often shipped from abroad. The Essex Street Market is a microcosm of the many cultures that inhabit the area. Historically it is the descendent of the once ubiquitous pushcarts that were forced indoors by Mayor Laguardia. In the context of the Market, an installation of Roth’s pallets along with photographs of the pallets on city streets illuminates the ubiquity and dignity of these once forlorn and subjugated objects.
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Cuchifritos is located inside the historic Essex Street Market, at the south end nearest Delancey Street, J, M, Z, & F trains to Essex/Delancey.
Cuchifritos is FREE, open to the public and handicapped accessible.
Cuchifritos is a program of Artists Alliance, Inc.(AAI) and is generously supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. This program is made possible by public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. We thank the following for their generous support: The Greenwall Foundation, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Art World and members of Artists Alliance Inc. Special thanks go to our team of dedicated volunteers, without whom this program would not be possible.
Images: Yumi Janairo Roth,Cargo Cult (mailbox), archival inkjet, 2009 (30 x 40). Yumi Janairo Roth, Cargo Cult, found shipping pallets inlaid with mother-of-pearl, 2009: Photograph by Derek Eller: Courtesy of the artist and Cuchifritos Gallery/Project Space.
Congratulations to the Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Artists in Residence for 2010:
Gail Biederman
Sonya Blesofsky
Kate Burnet and Dan Woerner
Brian Campbell
Vidal Centeno
Bang Geul Han
Natsu
Olek
Our thanks to the panel for their time and expertise: Ian Cofre, Independent Curator; Eduardo Difarnecio, Artist & AAI member; Shinnie Kim, Program Manager, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP); Kimberly Marrero, Independent Curator + Arts Advisor - KM Art Advisory; Jen Mazza, Artist, LES - RSP Resident, Fall 08
Special thanks to Julie Quon, 2010 Open Call Manager, Katherine Fox, Kimberly Zhu, Program Assistants and AAI Board Members Zeina Assaf and Bill Massey.
Current Artists-in-Residence
Kate Burnet and Dan Woerner, Vidal Centeno, Natsu,Olek
The Rotating Studio Program studios can be visited by appointment, please call 212-420-9202 or aai@aai-nyc.org
The Lower East Side - Rotating Studio Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
All photos courtesy of the artists: Tamara Kostianovsky, Map of Truth, 2008 Articles of clothing belonging to the artist and embroidery floss, 132 x 93 in. Blane De. St. Croix, - installation view of Mountain Strip, 2009 Photo by Etienne Frossard, courtesy of the artist and Black & White Project Space.
CUCHIFRITOS ART GALLERY PROJECT SPACE
This program of the Artists Alliance Inc. is located in the heart of the Essex Street Market. The focus is on contemporary art as it relates to community, social issues, and public space.
Cuchifritos' mission: to act as a forum for exploring fundamental ideas, issues and concerns associated with the Lower East Side through the medium of contemporary art, to highlight the work of underrepresented artists, including artists from this, and similar communities
Artists Alliance, Inc. is pleased to announce that Cuchifritos gallery/project space has been awarded funding support by The Greenwall Foundation for 2009 - 10 and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Organizations Award, 2009. The New York State Council on the Arts has renewed their support for 2010. We would like to sincerely thank them for their generous contributions that along with our dedicated members and gallery volunteers, make this program possible.
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AAI Member News
Nancy Friedemann, AAI member is showing new works at Collette Blanchard Gallery, Clinton Street on the Lower East Side through October 26, 2009.
See the: Member Artists Exhibition Page
Rotating Studio Program News
Spring 04, RSP Alumni Shelly Bahl's work is featured in Dialects 1.2 at Bronx River Art Center. Exhibition is on view from October 23-December 6, 2009
Fall 09 AAI Rotating Studio Program resident, Blane de St.Croix has a solo exhibition at Black and White Project Space, 483 Briggs Avenue, Brooklyn, New York through January 10, 2009.
Fall 09 AAI Rotating Studio Program artist, Tamara Kostianovsky has work featured in the Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, at Socrates Sculpture Park, through March, 2010
AAI's programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York City Economic Development Corporation and made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency. AAI would like to thank all the AAI members and volunteers who make these programs possible. AAI has also received generous support from the following:
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