Louise Barry, Gail Biederman, Sonya Blesofsky, Noa Charuvi, Hong Seon Jang, Brian Scott Campbell, Bang Geul Han, Judy Simonian

curated by Jeanne Brasile

Opening Reception Saturday, July 9: 4:00 – 6:30pm On View Saturday July 2 through Sunday, July 31, 2011 Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 12:00 to 6:00 pm

For more information on the artists and visuals: please contact Felicity Hogan at [email protected]

Intuitive Realities

Each of these eight talented artists selected for the 2010 – 2011 AAI’s Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program work in varying media and thematic investigations, but upon further deliberation, a common thread emerges. This unifying element is the manner in which each artist addresses the boundary between reality and artifice. Using photographs, statistical data, personal experience, historical research, nature and other concrete facts as a starting point—the artists depart from reality,allowing for ruptures, dissolutions or divergences from veracity. Shuttling between the real and the synthetic, the artists present viewers with composites of the truth. The concrete often melds into the subjective, and it is in these contested spaces – the line between reality and artifice – that the artists present viewers with enough leeway to experience the artwork in a highly personalized manner, warping truth into intuitive realities - Jeanne Brasile

Intuitive Realities: Working Space 11 is AAI’s annual exhibition featuring works selected by guest curator Jeanne Brasile from artists participating on the Lower East Side-Rotating Studio Program, in Fall 10 and Spring 11. AAI sponsors the Lower East Side Rotating Studio artist residency Program with artists chosen by a panel of outside artists, curators, and arts professionals in order to reaffirm our commitment to nurturing, supporting, and exhibiting the work of under-recognized and emerging artists who live or work in the community, and by welcoming artists and others engaged with contemporary visual arts to the Lower East Side.

Cuchifritos is FREE and Open to the Public. Handicapped accessible.

This exhibition and LES-RSP are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Cuchifritos is made possible with the generous support of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and members of Artist Alliance. We thank our volunteers for their dedication and support without whom this program would not be possible.