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Currently living and working in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Zeina Assaf both curates and creates work. After receiving her BA in Art History from Boston University in 2002, she is on the board of two non profit arts organizations; Artists Alliance, Inc and artHARLEM, and has been the director at NY Studio Gallery since 2007. Check out her ongoing curatorial project at Cuchifritos Gallery Briefly on View highlighting emerging artists working in video For frequent updates please visit: http://artboars.blogspot.com Zeina's Email list Email Address: Email Marketing by VerticalResponse	Al Wadzinski Trail of Beers 2010 TRASH Adler A.F., Kim Holleman, Michael Kareken, Stephen Mallon, Al Wadzinski Curated by: Zeina Assaf November 11, 2010 - January 8, 2011 Reception: November 12, 2010 7-9pm Adler A. F. “Trash Queen” performance 8pm NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present TRASH, a group show highlighting artists whose work is inspired by trash, garbage, refuse, waste and debris. Often considered aesthetically challenging if not abhorrently ugly, these products of human consumption are unavoidable elements of modern living. These five artists alter our negative reaction to this phenomenon by interpreting waste afresh, creating beautiful or insightful images, objects, installations and performances and giving form to the old adage: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Adler A.F. a German artist working in Tacheles arthouse in Berlin, is performing as the Trash Queen at NYSG. The work she creates from garbage maintains its own artistic value while developing a political-sociological conversation. Kim Holleman meticulously renders three dimensional trash-scapes from an abundanceof discarded materials. In her body of work, she addresses concepts of utopia, utilitarianism, environmentalism, and ideas about perfect form. Holleman examines how forms used in architecture connect to ideas about the natural environment, the sublime and the mundane, and our relationship to conceptual and physical space. Recycling facilities are the fodder for Michael Kareken‘s large scale paintings. Giant piles of somewhat organized recyclables create their own patterns and cycles similar to those found in nature. The mechanics of these facilities sorting and moving their debris take on their own narrative in his work. Stephen Mallon, an industrial photographer, documents the artificial landscapes and ecological footprints made by industrial plants. His photography is cropped to abstract the material and hence distort the viewer’s perception of the magnitude of the space. Al Wadzinski creates zoomorphic assemblages using found objects of every material - valuable, mundane, cast-offs, delicate or impermeable, reclaimed from salvage yards, garage sales and alleys. A Native American, Wadzinski uses humor, intuition and metaphor to weave stories from disparate elements. Culturehall Feature Issue 41 Shaping Mythologies Myths pervade our collective psyche. They evoke the ancient past and subtly insert themselves in the present day. Rooted in making sense of nature, the supernatural, and the human condition, mythical stories intrigue us, at times frighten us, and sometimes comfort us. Ranging from seemingly innocent childhood tales to dark, sexual or subversive fantasies, Shaping Mythologies highlights four artists that use a sense of mystery and myth in their work through both personal and well known tales. German-born artist Tine Kindermann creates hand-sculpted figurines placed within boxes constructed from found crates and drawers. The scenes played out within these dioramas depict the climax of widespread dark legends like "Grimm's Fairy Tales." The viewer becomes a voyeur, peering into a small peephole to experience second-hand the characters' emotional gasp in one tense second. Culled from magazines, books and newspapers, archetypal images are manipulated and reassembled in Lillianna Pereira's collages. While not accessing a particular legend or myth, the works activate the creation of the artist's personal stories while touching upon our collective unconscious. Currently, she has a solo show at the Elephant Room in Chicago. Norwegian sculptor Rune Olsen creates tension in his narratives that can be sexual and disturbing, and have their own strange tale of seduction. The artist's grayish sculptures are constructed from masking tape, graphite markings, and icy blue glass eyes reminiscent of the artist's own. The characters' piercing stares coupled with Olsen's exacting style and anatomically correct studies of both animals and humans conjures ancient mythology. His work is on permanent exhibition at the Museum of Sex. Through evolving mutations and landscapes, Rachel Meuler's fantastical oil and graphite on linen paintings imply multi-layered narratives that conjure the idea of hierarchy or a host-parasite relationship. The smaller characters create a secondary tale interweaving around the central hosts, but neither offer definitive conclusions to the unfolding story. Instead they create their own inexplicable ecosystem and mythology. She recently had a solo show at Rabbithole Gallery in Brooklyn. Denise DeSpirito All the Trimmings: a collection of works under $500 Louis Zuflacht Studios at NY Studio Gallery Dec 18, 2009 - Jan 23, 2010 works by: Ronald PD Brandt, James Boyd-Brent, Holly Ann Brooks, Denise DeSpirito, Clea Felien, Gina Fuentes Walker, Eunjung Hwang, Charlotta Janssen, Lisa Lebofsky, Yen-Hua Lee, Emmy Mikelson, Lilly Pereira, Heidi Russell curated by Zeina Assaf Zeina Assaf OVERLAY METROPOLIS: MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION Zeina Assaf, Christina Gundersen, Gina Fuentes Walker Hamilton Landmark Galleries 467 West 144th Street Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion The Shining Mantis Cuchifritos Gallery On view through October 10, 2009 Closing Party: Saturday, October 10, 4-6pm Cuchifritos is pleased to present the latest "Kangarok" battle drawing by The Shining Mantis, a Brooklyn-based collaboration consisting of Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion. Engaged in mortal combat this past weekend, the resulting mural will be celebrated this Saturday afternoon from 4-6pm. The gallery will be open Tuesday - Saturday from 12 - 5.30pm. Curated by Zeina Assaf. Joseph Smolinski Disjointed Terrains Works by: Stanislav Ginzburg, Kim Holleman, Lisa Lebofsky, Asya Reznikov, Joseph Smolinski; Curated by: Zeina Assaf NY Studio Gallery September 3, 2009 through October 3, 2009 NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Disjointed Terrains. This group exhibition brings together works depicting un-sublime frontiers from modern day realities of interventions with nature to imaginary dystopic landscapes. Stanislav Ginzburg's photographs and video reflect a state of mind or unreal scenes where daydreams, memories, and flashbacks replace the real-time environmental encounters. In blending art, science, technology, and architecture Kim Holleman addresses concepts of utopia, utilitarianism and environmentalism. She examines our relationship to conceptual and physical space by co-opting found physical forms and changing them physically with new matter, created and found. While using aluminum as her canvas, Lisa Lebosky paints landscapes strewn with devastation fluctuating from a portrayal of tragedy to a realm of disassociation and contemplation. Asya Reznikov layers culturally specific imagery, situations, and artifacts into unexpected combinations aiming to diminish the gap between different cultural realities. In her work she creates places that are a fusion of elements from actual locations, built models and imaginary structures. The subjects in Joseph Smolinski’s drawings include parasitic cell tower trees that populate the landscape and spinning tree turbines that question the notion of control of the environment and envision an optimistic and apocalyptic view of the future. Jayson Keeling Everyman's An Angel Works by Zev Jonas, Jayson Keeling, Rose Nestler, Robert O’Connor / Holly Beedle Co-curated by Zeina Assaf NY Studio Gallery May 7, 2009 through May 30, 2009 NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Everyman’s an Angel, a group show that explores transformation through the observation of religious experiences with a focus on sacrifice, including animal, human, and the sacrifice of the self for a perceived higher purpose. This exploration, while inspired in part by myth, culture and religious observance, is intended as introspection on modern western mores and our de-association with both ancient rituals and the animal kingdom, as well as our focus on the individual. “Everyman’s an Angel” addresses the human need to associate with a higher spiritual plane while at the same time separating ourselves from the earthly animal kingdom. Works include Keeling’s large piece “Untitled (Spell),” a glitzy ode to the same-titled Patti Smith song, a lyric from which the exhibition title is derived. Photographic pieces were taken by Jonas in Morocco of the Muslim festival Eid-al-adha, which observes animal sacrifice to commemorate the biblical figure Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his own son as an act of obedience. O’Connor in collaboration with Beedle presents multimedia work work that explores the animal-human boundary through the darning of skin and fur. O'Connor also visualizes the sacrifice of war through images of a deer and the words of soldiers. The delicate porcelain bones created by Nestler on alter-like pedestals reference the modern-day sacrifice humans make in the name of beauty. Jennifer Culler A Portion of the Pie Cuchifritos Gallery, NY, NY 2008 Co-curated by Zeina Assaf and Felicity Hogan Exhibition of view: Saturday November 15- December 20 2008 Selected by Zeina Assaf and Felicity Hogan, "A Portion of the Pie" presents a group exhibition of photography from gallery assistants at Cuchifritos. The photographs offer a unique insider's perspective of what it means to and work in the Lower East Side. In addition to the implicit autobiographical and communal dimensions of this theme, the work also demonstrates how the line between art and life can often be blurred or non-existent, and acts as an invitation for us to connect to the art already existent in our surroundings. Exhibiting artists: Arielle Kildore, Madison Tarr, Jennifer Culler, Phillip Elliot, Heidi Russell, Kristina Maria Lopez. Corpus Kinetics Cuchifritos Gallery, NY, NY July 2008 curated by Zeina Assaf July 5 through July 26, 2008 A video art exhibition focusing on the human body, Corpus Kinetics brings together Laura Calhoun, Robert O’Connor and Bryan Zanisnik. The three artists portray the exertions of the human body through different narratives. “The Rope” by Laura Calhoun documents the celebration of the biggest religious event in Brazil; the Círio de Nossa Senhora de Nazaré. On every second Sunday of October, around 4 o'clock AM, a rope is stretched by Our Lady's guards and, within minutes, is held by devotees who have been waiting to begin an incredible back and forth choreography “tug-of -war” with the rope. Robert O'Connor's “Now Before I Melt Away” (2007), with audio by Matt Page, is a work in which the artist moves within a ubiquitous suburban Christmas decoration - a metaphor that points toward the body as the site of conflict between nature and culture. Sickness and Health" is part of an ongoing, collaborative series in which Bryan Zanisnik places himself in submissive roles. The video presents Zanisnik and two lifelong friends examining the relationship of dominance to passivity, male to female, and fetishization to banality. L.E.S. Current Manhattan Borough President’s Office NY,NY Jan 2008 Curated by: Zeina Assaf and Barb Monoian L.E.S. Current highlights artists from Artists Alliance, Inc’s programs including the Long-term Studio Program, Rotating Studio Program and the Cuchifritos gallery assistants. Participating artists: Joyce Chan, Vanessa Chimera, Paul Clay, Xiaoqing Ding, Emilie Evans, Eileen Elizabeth Smith-Grant, Robert Grant, Tine Kindermann, Lisa Lebofsky, Chang-Jin Lee, Julie Anne Mann, Bill Massey, Alice O’Malley, Nicole Parcher, Mark Power, Maya Puchkoff, Heidi Russell, Sherman Sussman, Sarah Vogwill, Claire Watkins. Fade Out, Black In NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY February 2008 curated by Zeina Assaf January 31, 2008 through March 1, 2008 NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Fade Out, Black In, a group exhibit dealing with the underlying currents of dark nostalgia and distant memory. From childhood fears and adolescent recollections to the tainted past, the works encompass a pitted feeling of loss, self-reflection, and turbulent dreams. While grappling with disturbing images of the past or a twisted take on reality, the artists’ work relates on an emotional level, as well as an aesthetic one. Fade Out, Black In features mid career and emerging artists who work in media ranging from photography and sculpture to oil painting and mixed media. Exhibiting both locally and nationally at venues like: Deitch Projects, Secret Project, Robot Gallery, The RIDER Project, and St. Ann's Warehouse. 30 Second Spot Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY July 2007 organized and co-created by Zeina Assaf On view: Saturday June 30- Tuesday July 17th 2007 1-6pm Winners show: Saturday July 21-Friday July 27 With the explosion of media channels, audiences are splintering off in dozens of directions, watching TV shows on iPods, watching movies on videogame players and listening to radio on the Internet. With all this change, the advertising world is busy writing the epitaph of tv advertising’s most common currency “the 30 second spot”. Always swimming against the current, Cuchifritos is taking up its cause by using 30 second spots to promote the work of artists who support this non-profit gallery. Companies use the 30 second spot to entice consumers to the products or services they offer for sale. In contrast to this more comercial use,Cuchifritos is using 30 seconds spots as opportunities for artists to create videos to describe a work of art they have created. Rachel Hyman and Erich Erving Curated by Zeina Assaf Most Curatorial of the Universe Apex art, New York, NY July 2007 Apexart is pleased to present The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe in response to two major social issues of our time: biennialessness and poverty. Through an open call to curators and artists, nearly 600 people are now "with biennial." All works were available for donation, providing the Robin Hood Foundation of NYC. Kollaging Kick Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY July 2006 organized by Zeina Assaf Monday June 19 - Saturday June 24th “Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation.” (Robert Motherwell) Kollaging Kick is a quick one week exhibit featuring the medium of collage. Over 20 emerging artists will exhibit work that highlights the different cultures, food, fashion, bars, artists, art of the L.E.S. Most constructions were made specifically for Kollaging Kick. Working Space 2006 Cuchifritos Gallery. New York, NY August 2006. Co-curated Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Zeina Assaf August 19 - September 23, 2006 Artists from AAI's Rotating Studio Program Fall 05 and Spring 06. Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua, Amy Chan, Cat Chow, Chitra Ganesh, Linda Griggs, Rune Olsen, Nola Romano, Jenny Rogers "All creative people are empowered by an inheritance from the past, a gift that can only be repaid by dedicating a portion of our present labors toward the future." -Created Commons, Lewis Hyde To reaffirm our commitment to this vibrant and historically significant multicultural neighborhood, AAI sponsors the Lower East Side Rotating Studio artist residency Program with artists chosen by a panel of outside artists curators and arts professionals. The artists selected are presented here in Working Space 06. Christina Gundersen A New Works Exhibition Countee Cullen Library. New York, NY May 2006 artHarlem presents: A New Works Exhibition May 1 - 31, 2006 Opening reception: Wednesday May 3, 5:30 - 7:30pm Asia Ingalls Christina Gundersen Gloria Holwerda-Williams Tara Geer Beth Miller Servetar Curated by Zeina Assaf

Currently living and working in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Zeina Assaf both curates and creates work. After receiving her BA in Art History from Boston University in 2002, she is on the board of two non profit arts organizations; Artists Alliance, Inc and artHARLEM, and has been the director at NY Studio Gallery since 2007.

Check out her ongoing curatorial project at Cuchifritos Gallery Briefly on View highlighting emerging artists working in video

For frequent updates please visit: http://artboars.blogspot.com

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Al Wadzinski Trail of Beers 2010

TRASH

Adler A.F., Kim Holleman, Michael Kareken, Stephen Mallon, Al Wadzinski
Curated by: Zeina Assaf
November 11, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Reception: November 12, 2010 7-9pm
Adler A. F. “Trash Queen” performance 8pm

NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present TRASH, a group show highlighting artists whose work is inspired by trash, garbage, refuse, waste and debris. Often considered aesthetically challenging if not abhorrently ugly, these products of human consumption are unavoidable elements of modern living. These five artists alter our negative reaction to this phenomenon by interpreting waste afresh, creating beautiful or insightful images, objects, installations and performances and giving form to the old adage: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

Adler A.F. a German artist working in Tacheles arthouse in Berlin, is performing as the Trash Queen at NYSG. The work she creates from garbage maintains its own artistic value while developing a political-sociological conversation.

Kim Holleman meticulously renders three dimensional trash-scapes from an abundanceof discarded materials. In her body of work, she addresses concepts of utopia, utilitarianism, environmentalism, and ideas about perfect form. Holleman examines how forms used in architecture connect to ideas about the natural environment, the sublime and the mundane, and our relationship to conceptual and physical space.

Recycling facilities are the fodder for Michael Kareken‘s large scale paintings. Giant piles of somewhat organized recyclables create their own patterns and cycles similar to those found in nature. The mechanics of these facilities sorting and moving their debris take on their own narrative in his work.

Stephen Mallon, an industrial photographer, documents the artificial landscapes and ecological footprints made by industrial plants. His photography is cropped to abstract the material and hence distort the viewer’s perception of the magnitude of the space.

Al Wadzinski creates zoomorphic assemblages using found objects of every material - valuable, mundane, cast-offs, delicate or impermeable, reclaimed from salvage yards, garage sales and alleys. A Native American, Wadzinski uses humor, intuition and metaphor to weave stories from disparate elements.

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Culturehall Feature Issue 41 Shaping Mythologies

Myths pervade our collective psyche. They evoke the ancient past and subtly insert themselves in the present day. Rooted in making sense of nature, the supernatural, and the human condition, mythical stories intrigue us, at times frighten us, and sometimes comfort us. Ranging from seemingly innocent childhood tales to dark, sexual or subversive fantasies, Shaping Mythologies highlights four artists that use a sense of mystery and myth in their work through both personal and well known tales.
German-born artist Tine Kindermann creates hand-sculpted figurines placed within boxes constructed from found crates and drawers. The scenes played out within these dioramas depict the climax of widespread dark legends like "Grimm's Fairy Tales." The viewer becomes a voyeur, peering into a small peephole to experience second-hand the characters' emotional gasp in one tense second.
Culled from magazines, books and newspapers, archetypal images are manipulated and reassembled in Lillianna Pereira's collages. While not accessing a particular legend or myth, the works activate the creation of the artist's personal stories while touching upon our collective unconscious. Currently, she has a solo show at the Elephant Room in Chicago.
Norwegian sculptor Rune Olsen creates tension in his narratives that can be sexual and disturbing, and have their own strange tale of seduction. The artist's grayish sculptures are constructed from masking tape, graphite markings, and icy blue glass eyes reminiscent of the artist's own. The characters' piercing stares coupled with Olsen's exacting style and anatomically correct studies of both animals and humans conjures ancient mythology. His work is on permanent exhibition at the Museum of Sex.
Through evolving mutations and landscapes, Rachel Meuler's fantastical oil and graphite on linen paintings imply multi-layered narratives that conjure the idea of hierarchy or a host-parasite relationship. The smaller characters create a secondary tale interweaving around the central hosts, but neither offer definitive conclusions to the unfolding story. Instead they create their own inexplicable ecosystem and mythology. She recently had a solo show at Rabbithole Gallery in Brooklyn.

Denise DeSpirito

Denise DeSpirito

All the Trimmings: a collection of works under $500

Louis Zuflacht Studios at NY Studio Gallery

Dec 18, 2009 - Jan 23, 2010

works by:
Ronald PD Brandt, James Boyd-Brent,
Holly Ann Brooks, Denise DeSpirito,
Clea Felien, Gina Fuentes Walker,
Eunjung Hwang, Charlotta Janssen,
Lisa Lebofsky, Yen-Hua Lee,
Emmy Mikelson, Lilly Pereira, Heidi Russell

curated by Zeina Assaf

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Zeina Assaf

OVERLAY METROPOLIS: MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION

Zeina Assaf, Christina Gundersen, Gina Fuentes Walker

Hamilton Landmark Galleries 467 West 144th Street

Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion

The Shining Mantis

Cuchifritos Gallery

On view through October 10, 2009

Closing Party: Saturday, October 10, 4-6pm

Cuchifritos is pleased to present the latest "Kangarok" battle drawing by The Shining Mantis, a Brooklyn-based collaboration consisting of Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion. Engaged in mortal combat this past weekend, the resulting mural will be celebrated this Saturday afternoon from 4-6pm. The gallery will be open Tuesday - Saturday from 12 - 5.30pm. Curated by Zeina Assaf.

Joseph Smolinski

Disjointed Terrains

Works by: Stanislav Ginzburg, Kim Holleman, Lisa Lebofsky, Asya Reznikov, Joseph Smolinski;

Curated by: Zeina Assaf

NY Studio Gallery

September 3, 2009 through October 3, 2009
NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Disjointed Terrains. This group exhibition brings together works depicting un-sublime frontiers from modern day realities of interventions with nature to imaginary dystopic landscapes.
Stanislav Ginzburg's photographs and video reflect a state of mind or unreal scenes where daydreams, memories, and flashbacks replace the real-time environmental encounters.
In blending art, science, technology, and architecture Kim Holleman addresses concepts of utopia, utilitarianism and environmentalism. She examines our relationship to conceptual and physical space by co-opting found physical forms and changing them physically with new matter, created and found.
While using aluminum as her canvas, Lisa Lebosky paints landscapes strewn with devastation fluctuating from a portrayal of tragedy to a realm of disassociation and contemplation.
Asya Reznikov layers culturally specific imagery, situations, and artifacts into unexpected combinations aiming to diminish the gap between different cultural realities. In her work she creates places that are a fusion of elements from actual locations, built models and imaginary structures.
The subjects in Joseph Smolinski’s drawings include parasitic cell tower trees that populate the landscape and spinning tree turbines that question the notion of control of the environment and envision an optimistic and apocalyptic view of the future.

Jayson Keeling

Everyman's An Angel

Works by Zev Jonas, Jayson Keeling, Rose Nestler, Robert O’Connor / Holly Beedle

Co-curated by Zeina Assaf

NY Studio Gallery

May 7, 2009 through May 30, 2009
NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Everyman’s an Angel, a group show that explores transformation through the observation of religious experiences with a focus on sacrifice, including animal, human, and the sacrifice of the self for a perceived higher purpose. This exploration, while inspired in part by myth, culture and religious observance, is intended as introspection on modern western mores and our de-association with both ancient rituals and the animal kingdom, as well as our focus on the individual.

“Everyman’s an Angel” addresses the human need to associate with a higher spiritual plane while at the same time separating ourselves from the earthly animal kingdom. Works include Keeling’s large piece “Untitled (Spell),” a glitzy ode to the same-titled Patti Smith song, a lyric from which the exhibition title is derived. Photographic pieces were taken by Jonas in Morocco of the Muslim festival Eid-al-adha, which observes animal sacrifice to commemorate the biblical figure Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his own son as an act of obedience. O’Connor in collaboration with Beedle presents multimedia work work that explores the animal-human boundary through the darning of skin and fur. O'Connor also visualizes the sacrifice of war through images of a deer and the words of soldiers. The delicate porcelain bones created by Nestler on alter-like pedestals reference the modern-day sacrifice humans make in the name of beauty.

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Jennifer Culler

A Portion of the Pie

Cuchifritos Gallery, NY, NY 2008
Co-curated by Zeina Assaf and Felicity Hogan

Exhibition of view: Saturday November 15- December 20 2008

Selected by Zeina Assaf and Felicity Hogan, "A Portion of the Pie" presents a group exhibition of photography from gallery assistants at Cuchifritos. The photographs offer a unique insider's perspective of what it means to and work in the Lower East Side. In addition to the implicit autobiographical and communal dimensions of this theme, the work also demonstrates how the line between art and life can often be blurred or non-existent, and acts as an invitation for us to connect to the art already existent in our surroundings. Exhibiting artists: Arielle Kildore, Madison Tarr, Jennifer Culler, Phillip Elliot, Heidi Russell, Kristina Maria Lopez.

Corpus Kinetics

Cuchifritos Gallery, NY, NY July 2008

curated by Zeina Assaf

July 5 through July 26, 2008

A video art exhibition focusing on the human body, Corpus Kinetics brings together Laura Calhoun, Robert O’Connor and Bryan Zanisnik. The three artists portray the exertions of the human body through different narratives.
“The Rope” by Laura Calhoun documents the celebration of the biggest religious event in Brazil; the Círio de Nossa Senhora de Nazaré. On every second Sunday of October, around 4 o'clock AM, a rope is stretched by Our Lady's guards and, within minutes, is held by devotees who have been waiting to begin an incredible back and forth choreography “tug-of -war” with the rope.

Robert O'Connor's “Now Before I Melt Away” (2007), with audio by Matt Page, is a work in which the artist moves within a ubiquitous suburban Christmas decoration - a metaphor that points toward the body as the site of conflict between nature and culture.

Sickness and Health" is part of an ongoing, collaborative series in which Bryan Zanisnik places himself in submissive roles. The video presents Zanisnik and two lifelong friends examining the relationship of dominance to passivity, male to female, and fetishization to banality.

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L.E.S. Current

Manhattan Borough President’s Office NY,NY Jan 2008

Curated by: Zeina Assaf and Barb Monoian

L.E.S. Current highlights artists from Artists Alliance, Inc’s programs including the Long-term Studio Program, Rotating Studio Program and the Cuchifritos gallery assistants.

Participating artists: Joyce Chan, Vanessa Chimera, Paul Clay, Xiaoqing Ding, Emilie Evans, Eileen Elizabeth Smith-Grant, Robert Grant, Tine Kindermann, Lisa Lebofsky, Chang-Jin Lee, Julie Anne Mann, Bill Massey, Alice O’Malley, Nicole Parcher, Mark Power, Maya Puchkoff, Heidi Russell, Sherman Sussman, Sarah Vogwill, Claire Watkins.

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Fade Out, Black In

NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY February 2008

curated by Zeina Assaf

January 31, 2008 through March 1, 2008

NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Fade Out, Black In, a group exhibit dealing with the underlying currents of dark nostalgia and distant memory. From childhood fears and adolescent recollections to the tainted past, the works encompass a pitted feeling of loss, self-reflection, and turbulent dreams. While grappling with disturbing images of the past or a twisted take on reality, the artists’ work relates on an emotional level, as well as an aesthetic one.
Fade Out, Black In features mid career and emerging artists who work in media ranging from photography and sculpture to oil painting and mixed media. Exhibiting both locally and nationally at venues like: Deitch Projects, Secret Project, Robot Gallery, The RIDER Project, and St. Ann's Warehouse.

30 Second Spot

Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY July 2007

organized and co-created by Zeina Assaf

On view: Saturday June 30- Tuesday July 17th 2007 1-6pm

Winners show: Saturday July 21-Friday July 27

With the explosion of media channels, audiences are splintering off in dozens of directions, watching TV shows on iPods, watching movies on videogame players and listening to radio on the Internet.
With all this change, the advertising world is busy writing the epitaph of tv advertising’s most common currency “the 30 second spot”. Always swimming against the current, Cuchifritos is taking up its cause by using 30 second spots to promote the work of artists who support this non-profit gallery.
Companies use the 30 second spot to entice consumers to the products or services they offer for sale. In contrast to this more comercial use,Cuchifritos is using 30 seconds spots as opportunities for artists to create videos to describe a work of art they have created.

Rachel Hyman and Erich Erving

Curated by Zeina Assaf

Most Curatorial of the Universe

Apex art, New York, NY July 2007

Apexart is pleased to present The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe in response to two major social issues of our time: biennialessness and poverty. Through an open call to curators and artists, nearly 600 people are now "with biennial." All works were available for donation, providing the Robin Hood Foundation of NYC.

Kollaging Kick

Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY July 2006

organized by Zeina Assaf

Monday June 19 - Saturday June 24th

“Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation.” (Robert Motherwell) Kollaging Kick is a quick one week exhibit featuring the medium of collage. Over 20 emerging artists will exhibit work that highlights the different cultures, food, fashion, bars, artists, art of the L.E.S. Most constructions were made specifically for Kollaging Kick.

Working Space 2006

Cuchifritos Gallery. New York, NY August 2006.

Co-curated Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Zeina Assaf

August 19 - September 23, 2006

Artists from AAI's Rotating Studio Program Fall 05 and Spring 06.

Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua, Amy Chan, Cat Chow, Chitra Ganesh, Linda Griggs, Rune Olsen, Nola Romano, Jenny Rogers

"All creative people are empowered by an inheritance from the past, a gift that can only be repaid by dedicating a portion of our present labors toward the future." -Created Commons, Lewis Hyde

To reaffirm our commitment to this vibrant and historically significant multicultural neighborhood, AAI sponsors the Lower East Side Rotating Studio artist residency Program with artists chosen by a panel of outside artists curators and arts professionals. The artists selected are presented here in Working Space 06.

Christina Gundersen

A New Works Exhibition Countee Cullen Library. New York, NY May 2006

artHarlem presents:
A New Works Exhibition
May 1 - 31, 2006

Opening reception: Wednesday May 3, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Asia Ingalls
Christina Gundersen
Gloria Holwerda-Williams
Tara Geer
Beth Miller Servetar

Curated by Zeina Assaf