Opening reception for the artist on Friday, February 26, 6-8pm

PG Contemporary presents an exhibition by Milwaukee-based artist Santiago Cucullu featuring 19 small watercolors, a video, banana peels in bronze and latex, and a site-specific wall drawing relating to Cucullu's recollecton of "The Kitchen," painted by Picasso in commemoration of the thirteenth anniversary of the death of his friend Guillaume Apollinaire.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Santiago Cucullu was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and educated at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT. A resident at the MFAH's Core Program in Houston and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, he was recently awarded a Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

Picasso's Kitchen is organized by Zoya Tommy of PG Contemporary and hosted by Optical Project. Gallery hours are Saturdays 12-5, Sundays 1-5 or by appointment. Call Bill at Optical (713) 863 7112 or Zoya Tommy (347) 461 6543, pgcontemporary@gmail.com.

Optical Project is located near the intersection of Studewood and 11th Sts. in the Heights, next door to DaCapo's bakery and Bill's Junk.