Opening Reception:
Luma by Catalina Tuca
Mentor: Esperanza Mayobre
Thursday, June 20, 2024 from 6–8 pm
137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY
RSVP
Please join us for the opening reception for Luma, a solo exhibition by Catalina Tuca with mentorship from Esperanza Mayobre. Tuca is one of the awardees of CUE’s 2024 open call for solo exhibitions.
RSVPs to the opening reception are requested but not required. The event is free and all are welcome.
This exhibition will continue until August 10, 2024. CUE's gallery space is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12–6 pm. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience during these times; no registration is required.
Read more about the exhibition here, and see below to RSVP to the opening reception.
About the Artist
Catalina Tuca (b. Santiago, Chile) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, educator, and independent curator. After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, Chile by showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching visual arts and film, and creating and directing art spaces.
Tuca has had residencies at Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo, Japan); Taller 7 (Medellin, Colombia); and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (United States). In 2016, she moved to the U.S. to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University, which she received in 2018. She has been a member at NEW INC (New York), a resident at NARS Foundation (New York), a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (New York), a resident with Collider Artist Residency at Contemporary Calgary (Canada), and a grantee of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute. Tuca lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
About the Mentor
Esperanza Mayobre is a Brooklyn-based Venezuelan artist who creates fictive laboratory spaces. She inserts herself as a hero, writing a role for herself in the work. She uses light as a metaphor for birth; drawings to create infinite lines; candles to create lines of light; dust to convert illegal to legal aliens. She gives away money to talk about the debt of Third World countries, and makes elegant graffiti to portray urban chaos.
Mayobre has exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; the Americas Society; Baxter Street Camera Club; the Fuller Craft Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Museo Eduardo Sivori, Buenos Aires; the Queens Museum; The State University of New York Westchester Community College; La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center; MIT CAVS; BRIC; the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC; the Contemporary Museum of El Salvador; and the Incheon Women Artists’ Biennial, South Korea. She has participated in many residency and fellowship programs and has received numerous awards, including the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Smack Mellon’s Artist Studio Program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, and a fellowship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been in Artishock, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, the New York Times, Creative Time Reports, Arte al Día, and Art in America.
Her work can be viewed in Art Handling: An Installation Play at Luxembourg + Co, New York.
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