> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Cutlog Offers a Down-to-Earth Art Fair Alternative - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/cutlog-offers-a-down-to-earth-art-fair-alternative/ - Published: 2014-05-09T22:32:14.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:17:02.000Z - Description: The Paris-based Cutlog art fair has returned to the Lower East Side for another year, with 50 galleries setting up inside the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. Opened on Wednesday, the internationally focused art offerings sprawl through two floors of the old schoolhouse, weaving - Author: Allison Meier - Tags: Art, Frieze Art Fair, Frieze Week, Review, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1) ![Work by Robert Montgomery over the entrance to Cutlog, with a sculpture by Shoplifter just inside](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-3.jpg) Work by Robert Montgomery over the entrance to Cutlog, with a sculpture by Shoplifter just inside (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The Paris-based [Cutlog art fair](http://www.cutlogny.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has returned to the Lower East Side for another year, with 50 galleries setting up inside the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. Opened on Wednesday, the internationally focused art offerings sprawl through two floors of the old schoolhouse, weaving in classrooms and hallways. Exhibitors come from Paris, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Basel, Lyon, Berlin, Kuala Lampur, Belgrade, and Santiago, so it’s a welcome chance to explore outside of the New York scene. (Although there are some locals, such as two showing street art: PGartventure, with Swoon, and Folioleaf, with Rae, ELLE, and Dain.) Robert Montgomery’s “Trojan Horses of Our Dreams,” which proclaims in lights “we are just the wrecked and broke,” hovers over the entrance to the fair, and nearby a giant fuzzy sculpture hangs from the foyer ceiling by Shoplifter. After that, the booths are much less monumental. ![Jessica Deane Rosner, "The Ulysses Glove Project," presented by Yellow Peril Gallery (click to enlarge)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-4.jpg) Jessica Deane Rosner, “The Ulysses Glove Project,” presented by Yellow Peril Gallery (click to enlarge) Works on view seem to center on the small and scrappy more than the monolithic, with exceptions. A lot of the art is heavy on the DIY-style; I’m still not sure if a trash bag positioned on a staircase below pointed colored tape was art or not. Jessica Deane Rosner has installed her [“The Ulysses Glove Project”](http://www.jessicadeanerosner.com/ulyssesgloves.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) with Rhode Island’s Yellow Peril Gallery (also part of the 2013 Cutlog), for which she wrote all of James Joyce’s book on cleaning gloves as a tribute to her late father and a comment on the “filthiness” of the literary words. Yellow Peril is focusing on “new realities” with its presentation, including tech-heavy experimentations like Paul Myoda’s kinetic sculptures that whir to life when you get close. A site-specific installation by Monika Zarzeczna was hosted by Lesley Heller Workspace, while across the way are Haunted Mansion–esque mirror pieces by Daniel Horowitz with L’Inlassable Galerie, where faces are creepily washed out to drip down the walls. (The same gallery also had odd works by Edgar Sarin that you’re not supposed to open until he’s dead.) Jeremiah Johnson’s “House of Worship,” presented by Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art, constructs a religious temple from empty pill bottles. Unfortunately, traffic was light at the official opening, but for those with art fair fatigue who want something more exploratory, or for those who prefer their experiences outside of the white walls, Cutlog is one to check out. ![Cutlog, first floor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-1.jpg) Installation view, the first floor of Cutlog ![Work by Shoplifter in the entrance to Cutlog](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-2.jpg) Work by Shoplifter in the entrance to Cutlog ![Jessica Deane Rosner, "The Ulysses Glove Project." Presented by Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-5.jpg) Jessica Deane Rosner, “The Ulysses Glove Project,” presented by Yellow Peril Gallery ![Mirror art by Daniel Horowitz, presented by L'inlassable Galerie](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-6.jpg) Mirror art by Daniel Horowitz presented by L’inlassable Galerie ![Detail of sculptural work by Margaret Roleke, presented by Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-9.jpg) Detail of sculpture by Margaret Roleke, presented by Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art ![The room of Amstel Gallery, Amsterdam](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-10.jpg) The room of Amstel Gallery, Amsterdam ![Art by Ahmet Civelek (the hammer) and Vargas-Suarez (on the back wall), presented by Universal, IFAC & Wallplay](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-11.jpg) Art by Ahmet Civelek (the hammer) and Vargas-Suarez (on the back wall), & Marjan Moghaddam (right wall) presented by Universal, IFAC & Wallplay ![IFAC & Wallplay's hall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-12.jpg) IFAC & Wallplay’s hall ![Art by Alan Neider, Hamden](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-13.jpg) Art by Alan Neider presented by Hamden ![Work by Swoon, presented by PGartventure ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-14.jpg) Work by Swoon, presented by PGartventure ![Art by ELLE & Dain, presented by Folio Leaf, Brooklyn](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-15.jpg) Art by ELLE & Dain, presented by Folioleaf ![Art by Naomi Campbell, presented by Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-16.jpg) Art by Naomi Campbell, presented by Yellow Peril Gallery ![Kinetic sculpture by Paul Myoda, presented by Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-17.jpg) Kinetic sculpture by Paul Myoda, presented by Yellow Peril Gallery ![Jeremiah Johnson's "House of Worship," presented by Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-18.jpg) Jeremiah Johnson’s “House of Worship,” presented by Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art ![The booth of Fresh Eggs, Berlin](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/cutlog2014-21.jpg) The booth of Fresh Eggs gallery [*Cutlog*](http://www.cutlogny.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *continues at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (107 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through May 11.*