Gallery Bar is pleased to present Sampling and Revisions: The L.E.S. deframed, a photography exhibition juxtaposing the Lower East Side Tenement Museum archival photos with those by contemporary artists.

The ground-breaking show, curated by Zoe Lukov, commemorates the neighborhood’s history and tradition, while celebrating its current energy and dynamism.

Borrowing gems from the Tenement Museum’s extensive collection of over 5,000 archival photographs, Lukov has chosen also to exhibit work by artists living and creating on the Lower East Side who, using the archival prints as a point of departure, pilfer and sample centuries-old imagery, remixing and reframing the same landscape.

Among the artists presented are: Isaac Brest, Christopher Bush, Carlton DeWoody, Lucas Flores Piran, Yannique Hall, Paula Kupfer, Wayne Liu, Alex Perweiler, and Marlene Ramirez-Cancio. Lukov, a NYC born, independent curator, says she was fascinated with the neighborhood and its evolution because it is the neighborhood where for the last 150 years, new immigrants to New York have settled and today, hipsters, scenesters, young professionals, and artists have laid claim to these streets alongside the palimpsest of histories, cultures, and peoples that established lower Manhattan. “The show and the neighborhood have particular resonance for me. My great-grandfather owned and operated the extremely popular Davis’s Saloon, at Houston and Orchard Street at the turn of the 20th century.”