Alison Kuo: Juicy Juicy Special Request Deluxe

ON VIEW Wednesday April 17 through Sunday April 21, 2013

PUBLIC OPENING Thursday April 18, 2013 7 to 10pm

Garnish Workshop Saturday April 20, 2013
5 to 7pm followed by Family Dinner @ 7pm

Superchief Gallery is at Culturefix,9 Clinton Street, NY NY

http://www.superchiefgallery.com/

PRESS OPENING AND PERFORMANCE
Tuesday April 16, 2013 6 to 8pm
For the press opening, Alison Kuo will conduct a special performance of Snack Machine; “part vending machine, part automated fortune teller, and part grade school science fair project.”

PUBLIC OPENING Thursday April 18, 2013 7 to 10pm

GARNISH WORKSHOP AND FAMILY DINNER
Saturday April 20, 2013
Garnish Workshop 5 to 7pm
followed by Family Dinner @ 7pm
Join the artist and collaborators Destiny Pierce and Stina Puotinen, both professional party cats of the NYC based artist collective CHERYL, for a playful cooking workshop that aims to improve participants garnish-making skills. Some materials will be provided, but students are encouraged to browse the nearby Chinatown markets for produce on the way to class. Bring your own paring knife (BYOPK). FREE

At 7pm the public is invited to enjoy a family-style dinner, commissioned by the artist and conceived-of in conjunction with Culturefix chef Ari Stern. A beer pairing suggestion list will be curated by the artist and drinks will be available for purchase. Limited space available, first come first served.
FREE

EXHIBITION INFO:
Works in this exhibition will include recent small sculptures, drawing, collage, photography, performance and video work. Kuo is working with Culturefix chef Ari Stern to commission a family style dinner available at the final performance event Saturday April 20th.

For the duration of the exhibition, a bar snack of Kuo’s creation will be available to be enjoyed while viewing the work. This connection between food, art and experience is not only inherent in Kuo’s practice and process, but is also a nod to artist restaurant precedents in downtown NYC, such as Caroline Goodden and Gordon Matta-Clark’s FOOD of the 1970s.

Juicy Juicy Special Request Deluxe is artist Alison Kuo’s first solo exhibition in New York. Kuo is a Texas native, and received her BA from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and is currently an MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She has exhibited at Art Jam (Brooklyn), 1117 Garland (Austin), CANADA (NYC), OHWOW (Miami), SOFA Gallery (Austin), Co-Lab (Austin), and Domy Books (Austin). Kuo is often best known as the person behind the widely acclaimed blog Accidental Chinese Hipsters and is the Contributing Art Editor for the independent literary magazine Gigantic. She is currently blogging at foodadventuredeluxe.tumblr.com, and Kuo’s full bio, CV and other projects can be found at kuospace.com