Articles from February 2025

Mike Kuchar is a “Show Off”

François Ghebaly New York is delighted to present Show Off, iconoclastic filmmaker and visual artist Mike Kuchar’s newest exhibition at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. Since the 1960s, Mike Kuchar has been a majorly influential figure in the underground film and comics scenes. Together with his twin brother George, the Kuchars gained cult recognition first in the Bronx and then in San Francisco for their over-the-top, no-budget films that sent up Hollywood epics, weepy romances, and sci-fi B movies. In iconic films like Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965), The Craven Sluck (1967), and Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults (1976), Mike developed his distinctive style that jettisoned traditional narrative structure and acting professionalism in favor of extravagant, tender sagas that would have a significant impact on emerging theorizations…

Dislyxec Poet: CB Hoyo @ Plan X Gallery, Milan

Dislyxec Poet: CB Hoyo @ Plan X Gallery, Milan
With Dislyxec Poet at Plan X Milan, CB Hoyo does what he does best—breaks the rules, questions value, and makes the art world deeply uncomfortable while laughing at it. This exhibition at Plan X Milan is not just an overwhelming spectacle of 1,500 unique works on paper, but also a reckless market experiment, a farewell performance, and a final act of creative destruction.

Dada Khanyisa: this is for you

Dada Khanyisa: this is for you
In their first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Radio Juxtapoz and featured artist alum Dada Khanyisa presents a group of ‘sculptural paintings’ that look to their immediate community in Cape Town, popular culture, and Khanyisa’s extensive research into the social and political histories of South Africa, producing lively figurative assemblages that convey the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary life. Throughout their labour-intensive practice – incorporating hand carved wood, meticulously compiled sculptural elements and found objects, and painted backdrops borrowed from candid or historic photographic sources – Khanyisa expresses interpersonal dynamics through the lens of their social observations and lived experience.

Woody De Othello: Tuning the Dial @ Karma, Los Angeles

Woody De Othello: Tuning the Dial @ Karma, Los Angeles
In Spring 2022, when we last sat down with Woody De Othello, he told us, “I feel like I’m a California kid at heart. I know I’m not leaving the state. I’m here for life.” And it feels quite on point, on brand, that California’s De Othello would kick off Karma’s Frieze week in Los Angeles with Tuning the Dial, his first ever solo show in LA.

The “Bronx Figures”: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres @ James Fuentes, NYC

James Fuentes is honored to present Bronx Figures, an exhibition surveying the iconic freestanding works of long-term collaborators John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. These affectionate portrayals of the city’s ordinary people began on the sidewalk when, in 1979, Ahearn set up shop to life-cast passersby at the storefront of Fashion Moda, the storied South Bronx art gallery run by Stefan Eins, Joe Lewis, and William Scott. It was there that Ahearn would also meet Rigoberto Torres, a Puerto-Rican born, Bronx raised artist whose experience in casting began in his uncle’s botanica statuette factory. Bronx Figures brings together a group of ambitious, in-the-round works spanning the 1980s to today, which have made a lasting impression on New York City’s public spaces…