After four successful years in Paris, Cutlog is launching their first New York edition in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Opening May 8th and on view through May 13th at 107 Suffolk Street, each of the 40 participating galleries will present an original project selected by a jury of professionals. The courtyard will feature outdoor sculpture and installation and performances, talks and films will be shown throughout the venue. RH Gallery’s booth will feature new works by Paul Edmunds, Wolfgang Ellenrieder and Emily Stoddart.

RH Gallery is presenting performances by Myla Dalbesio, Jaeeun Lee and Ursula Scherrer at Cutlog. Myla Dalbesio's Getting Lifted: Exploring the Healing Relationship is an element of the artist’s cult-like “family” Valley International which explores transcendence, devotion and multiple planes of reality. This interactive performance piece invites participants to engage in a momentarily meaningful relationship through the therapeutic properties of caring yet benign physical contact. Wordlessly introducing a layer of trust within an intimate environment, Dalbesio paves a path to transcendence.

We will be hosting a panel discussion on May 18th, 5-7pm, with Soledad Arias, April Gornik, John O’Reilly and Rona Pondick in conversation with Rebecca Heidenberg to celebrate of our exhibition A Discourse on Plants. This will be Rona Pondick’s first public appearance in many years following her first solo exhibition at Sonnabend Gallery in 7 years. Presenting depictions ranging from the cultivated and domestic to what Werner Herzog memorably described as “the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder”, the exhibition demonstrates the ways in which plants function as markers, metaphors and subjects of an anthropocentric world.

Vernacular Contstruction, curated by Anna Nearburg, opens June 5th and will be on view through August 20th. The exhibition includes works by Katie Bell, Peter Brock, Kari Cholnoky, Jason Gringler, James Hyde, Kelly Jazvac, Eve Lateiner, Jay Paavonpera, Ian Pedigo, Lisa Sigal, Charles Spurrier and Emily Stoddart. The artists in Vernacular Construction make marks, gestures, and brush strokes with re-purposed quotidian materials. Their formal abstract compositions are characterized by a tactile physicality produced with found objects and non-traditional materials.

A summer group exhibition opening June 5th and on view through August 20th will be comprised solely of works submitted through an open call. RH Gallery’s first open call seeks artworks which demonstrate an innovative approach to conceptual art-making wherein the process and materials are integral to the meaning of the work. We are looking for works that are characterized by one or all of the following descriptors: obsessive, radical, challenging and thought-provoking. The work should reflect a dedication to uncovering and accessing contemporary culture via specific avenues of inquiry.