Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space

Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space provides exhibition opportunities to hundreds of independent curators and emerging underrepresented artists.

Its location inside the Essex Street Market creates a distinct opportunity to directly engage with the local community about contemporary art. Artists Alliance Inc is interested in promoting contemporary artwork in all media, to be shown within a local community setting, though we do not promote community-based art. Through an annual open call, we seek exhibitions featuring the work of emerging an

d underrepresented contemporary artists and the curators who seek to exhibit these artistsʼ work in a clear and concise context. In addition, we are particularly interested in exhibits that convey relevance to the local community.

“The catholic religion in Colombia is ingrained in its national identity, and so is fútbol (soccer), almost as a quasi-r...
06/05/2026

“The catholic religion in Colombia is ingrained in its national identity, and so is fútbol (soccer), almost as a quasi-religion. Players are often venerated like saints, their faces printed on candles, and their shirts worn during national holidays beyond soccer matches. The shirt is then a sacred object, easily acquireable as cheap reproductions are sold in the streets for fractions of the “original” price…This idea of suspension between death and life is where I wanted to work to exist, meditating on the long history of political violence that the country has been subject to for the past 60 years, and the entropic nature of national identities within the complex history of Colombia.”–Alejandro Valencia ()

Shown here is a detail of “Mausoleo (The Horrible Night Came to an End),” 2025, Plexiglass, found steel frame, pine, found Colombian soccer jersey, soil, grass.

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
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“The catholic religion in Colombia is ingrained in its national identity, and so is fútbol (soccer), almost as a quasi-r...
06/03/2026

“The catholic religion in Colombia is ingrained in its national identity, and so is fútbol (soccer), almost as a quasi-religion. Players are often venerated like saints, their faces printed on candles, and their shirts worn during national holidays beyond soccer matches. The shirt is then a sacred object, easily acquireable as cheap reproductions are sold in the streets for fractions of the “original” price…This idea of suspension between death and life is where I wanted to work to exist, meditating on the long history of political violence that the country has been subject to for the past 60 years, and the entropic nature of national identities within the complex history of Colombia.”–Alejandro Valencia ()

Shown here is a detail of “Mausoleo (The Horrible Night Came to an End),” 2025, Plexiglass, found steel frame, pine, found Colombian soccer jersey, soil, grass.

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

“Much like [Gloria] Anzaldua, I see mestizaje as a place of collisions, creating states of hybridity beyond notions of i...
05/29/2026

“Much like [Gloria] Anzaldua, I see mestizaje as a place of collisions, creating states of hybridity beyond notions of identity politics. I think of mestizaje as a method, or strategy, where contrasting, antagonistic elements can be mixed, remixed, or redistributed to reconfigure meaning…The “Mausoleum” is both a reliquary and a self-contained ecosystem where elements of personal and collective identity are subject to decay, placing the shirt in an in-betweenness.”–Alejandro Valencia ()

“Mausoleo (The Horrible Night Came to an End),” 2025, Plexiglass, found steel frame, pine, found Colombian soccer jersey, soil, grass.

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

“The scale of my work tends to follow the material rather than precede it. To***co led me to papermaking through its rel...
05/27/2026

“The scale of my work tends to follow the material rather than precede it. To***co led me to papermaking through its relationship to sculpture, in which the medium revealed itself through the handling of natural materials and pigments.”–Jonathan Sánchez Noa ()

View “Untitled (Abenaki),” 2026, Cuban to***co cast on handmade paper mounted on linen, in “Rituals of Repair,” a three-person exhibition including additional works by and that considers how art can confront colonial histories while imagining new forms of relation, survival, and transformation across the Americas.

The exhibition is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

“To***co is a material inherently political and spiritual. It is a crop that shaped the colonial economies of the Caribb...
05/22/2026

“To***co is a material inherently political and spiritual. It is a crop that shaped the colonial economies of the Caribbean and fueled diasporic spiritual practices, while also running through my own family history in Cuba, from plantation labor to cigar factories. Through a casting technique I developed, I imprint its stain patterns directly into raw handmade paper pulp slabs, a process informed by personal ritual that transforms a material marked by extraction into a substrate of cultural and religious significance.”–Jonathan Sánchez Noa ()

Shown here is “Untitled (e),” 2026, Cuban to***co cast on handmade paper mounted on linen.

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

“Repair, to me, means making meaning from fracture, inheritance, and change. This project was shaped by a belief that wo...
05/20/2026

“Repair, to me, means making meaning from fracture, inheritance, and change. This project was shaped by a belief that working with culturally significant materials is in itself a reparative act. These materials carry knowledge that colonial systems tried to suppress, particularly within diaspora spiritual traditions, and the act of working with them ritually becomes a form of continuity across rupture.”–Jonathan Sánchez Noa ()

Stop by Cuchifritos to view these two works: “Untitled (e)” and “Untitled (Abenaki),” 2026, Cuban to***co cast on handmade paper mounted on linen.

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

“In both memory studies and political aesthetics, the sensible, or art, is a fundamental space to visualize that which i...
05/15/2026

“In both memory studies and political aesthetics, the sensible, or art, is a fundamental space to visualize that which is excluded, forgotten, or simply marginalized. In my work, these two concepts compose a core part of my research framework, where the work engages with material histories as a means to render visible those histories that become sedimented through time and erasure.”–Alejandro Valencia ()

“E Pluribus Nihil”, 2025, found flag pole, ceramic, razor wire.

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

Conceived as a dialogue between artists from across the Americas, “Rituals of Repair” highlights shared affinities in ma...
05/13/2026

Conceived as a dialogue between artists from across the Americas, “Rituals of Repair” highlights shared affinities in material experimentation and symbolism. Together, they reinvigorate traditions of found-object assemblage, material symbolism, and creolization to examine knowledge systems that remain on the edges of Western thought while also reaching beyond it.

Stop by Cuchifritos Gallery in to view works by Jonathan Sánchez Noa (), Alejandro Valencia (), and Carlos Vielma ()

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

🗣️Join us on the Mezzanine of for an artist panel marking the exhibition “Rituals of Repair.” The dialogue will engage ...
05/11/2026

🗣️Join us on the Mezzanine of for an artist panel marking the exhibition “Rituals of Repair.” The dialogue will engage themes of rupture, inheritance, ritual, and cultural resilience across the Americas and feature artists Jonathan Sánchez Noa (), Alejandro Valencia (), and Carlos Vielma (), moderated by Alva Mooses ().

Through sculpture, painting, papermaking, and assemblage, the conversation explores how artistic practices carry memory, confront colonial histories, and imagine new forms of survival and transformation.

A late exhibition viewing of “Rituals of Repair” will continue until 9p downstairs at Cuchifritos Gallery.

🔗Link in bio to RSVP. Free and open to all!

🌟Artist Panel: Rituals of Repair, May 28 from 6:30-8p
📍Essex Market Kitchen, 88 Essex St [Mezzanine]
🗓Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
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“...the same art piece can be read in many different ways depending on every person’s background, and all along my caree...
05/08/2026

“...the same art piece can be read in many different ways depending on every person’s background, and all along my career I have learned that…in this installation I was more interested in the feeling of a human presence that is not in the room anymore. I thought of rural ceremonial burials and how a simple pair of boots could give some humanity to a pile of rubble.”–Carlos Vielma ()

Shown here is a detail of Vielma’s “Durmiente (Sleeper)”, 2023, which consists of rocks and boots on burlap sacks.

“Rituals of Repair” is made possible through the Dual Workspace Residency Program, presented by Artists Alliance Inc. and Dieu Donné (). Jonathan Sánchez Noa () was the 2024 inaugural AAI x Dieu Donné Dual Workspace Residency Artist.

🗓 Rituals of Repair on view through Jun 13, 2026
📍Cuchifritos Gallery @ 88 Essex St [inside Essex Market]
⏰Gallery hours: Wed - Sat from 12–6p
📸

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