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Thomas Nickles Project Contemporary Art Gallery specializing in Cuban art located in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

04/15/2025

Huge congratulations to on her stunning new solo show at Art Gotham! ✨

We’re so proud to have been a part of her dynamic journey, and to see her practice continue to evolve with such power, grace, and bold vulnerability.

Image 1: Qinza standing with “Blue Gem,” featured in her current solo exhibition at Art Gotham — a radiant new threaded work reflecting her ongoing exploration of memory, resilience, and quiet power.

Image 2: Qinza at Thomas Nickles Project, pictured with “Worked some and loved some (Kuch Ishq Kiya, Kuch Kaam Kiya),” part of our 2024 group exhibition How to Return to A Place That Isn’t There. These golden steel forms remain a moving tribute to the quiet dualities of love and labor.
We can’t wait to see what’s next. Don’t miss this show!

04/03/2025

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us this past Saturday for an unforgettable artist talk with &

The room was filled with curiosity, insight, and community as the artists shared stories of inspiration, friendship, collaboration, and the paths that brought them here. We’re grateful to Ernesto and Roger for their generosity, and to all who came out to be part of the conversation. 💬🎨✨
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03/26/2025

Opening Tomorrow! Join us for the opening reception of Incomplete Trajectories from 6–8 PM—come celebrate with us!

Artist Talk: Join us Saturday, March 29, from 3–5 PM for an in-depth conversation with the artists as they share insights into their practice and collaborations.

“Incomplete Trajectories” is on view through May 11. Explore the exhibition online—link in bio.
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Sunday, 12–6 PM, or by appointment.

03/14/2025

Join us next Saturday, March 29 at 3PM for an artist talk with Ernesto García Sánchez and Roger Toledo, who will discuss their latest works in our upcoming exhibition, Incomplete Trajectories. Travelling from Mexico and Cuba, hear directly from the artists about their practices, creative collaboration, and featured works at the gallery.

To RSVP, please view our story highlight for the link. We hope to see you there!

03/06/2025

We’re thrilled to spotlight Ernesto García Sánchez and Roger Toledo, two visionary artists pushing the boundaries of painting in Incomplete Trajectories, the first bi-personal exhibition with the gallery opening on March 27.

creates dynamic geometric compositions that explores structure, color, and space. Adopting a multifaceted approach, his practice allows him to reflect on the universal and Cuban pictorial traditions while embracing constant evolution.

deconstructs and reassembles painting’s core elements to investigate the form itself. Inspired by architecture, design, and forms observed in the tangible world, his work moves beyond narrative representation, focusing instead on the essence of painting. By shifting perspectives, he invites new ways of seeing and engaging with the medium.

INCOMPLETE TRAJECTORIES
Ernesto García Sánchez and Roger Toledo
On view: March 27 – May 11, 2025

Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 12-6, or by appointment
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03/04/2025

Surreal and dreamlike, Carlos Estevez reimagines the candlestick as a guiding beacon, enveloped in teeth-like forms. Embracing assemblage, he transforms an everyday object into a vessel of memory, transformation, and spiritual illumination.

“Recurring Dream”, 2024 by
Assemblages
16 x 6 ½ x 6 ½ in
40.6 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm

02/26/2025

“Incomplete Trajectories”, a presentation of new work by Ernesto García Sánchez and Roger Toledo, opens Thursday, March 27.

In their individual practices, García Sánchez and Toledo push the traditional limitations of painting by dismantling its formal elements and transforming them into dynamic structures that metaphorically reflect the shifting boundaries of perceived realities. This is their first bi-personal show with the gallery.

Please join us for the opening reception, Thursday, March 27, 6-8pm.

The artists will be present!

An artist talk will take place on Saturday, March 29 at 3pm – stay tuned for more details.

INCOMPLETE TRAJECTORIES
Ernesto García Sánchez and Roger Toledo
On view: March 27 – May 11, 2025

Image details:
Roger Toledo
Perspectiva (009), 2025
Oil on Canvas
18 x 16.5 in, 46 x 42cm

Ernesto García Sánchez
Polimorfos- pine brook and King salmon, 2025
Acrylic on Wood Panel
47.2 x 24 x 13.8 in, 120 x 61 x 35cm

02/24/2025

Final Week to see Adrián Fernández’s solo exhibition, Salvaged Stories, on view through March 2.

continues his conceptual exploration of Cuban futurability and expands his experimentation with materials. His artistic imagination draws from the current state of the Cuban context—the destruction of what was never completed —while envisioning possibilities for transformation.

Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 12-6, or by appointment

“Fragment No. 8”, 2024
Weathering steel, mild steel, silicon bronze
14.9” x 8.6” x 21.6”

“Fragment No. 10”, 2024
Weathering steel, mild steel, silicon bronze
15.5” x 5.9” x 6.1”

“Fragment No. 5”, 2024
Weathering steel, mild steel, silicon bronze
14.5” x 6.9” x 6.1”

02/21/2025

Rigo’s expressive and dynamic paintings strip the human form down to its raw essence, capturing emotion through bold brushstrokes and vivid color. His figures, turbulent yet honest, reflect the self, the other, and the collective, blurring the line between subject and observer.

“Head 3”
Collage with pastel & acrylic (Illuminated Collage)
11” x 15”

“Elgar,” 2018
Mixed Media on Paper
22 1/2 x 17 3/4 in 57.1 x 45.1 cm

“Head 2 No. 2,” ca. 2019
Acrylic on Paper
18 x 13 in 45.7 x 33 cm

“Manifestation 1,” 2018
Mixed Media on Paper
11 x 8 1/2 in 27.9 x 21.6 cm
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02/19/2025

In her “An Early 2020 Story Series,” utilizes her body and tiny pandemic bedroom to express the resilience of the human spirit.

Untitled No’s. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
An Early 2020 Story series, 2020
Archival Print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta Satin
11 x 11 in, 27.9 x 27.9cm
Edition 1 of 5

02/14/2025

Elsa Mora “ELEMENTS OF SURVIVAL,”
2023, Porcelain, 9”H x 6.5”W x 3.75”D

Inscription: Seasonal Object Potentially Active During Blooming Season

02/11/2025

In the manual creation process of the sculptural ‘fragments’ on view in “Salvaged Stories,” Adrián Fernández has embraced the potential for accidents. There are no preliminary sketches or mockups, only a basic outline that serves as a starting point. It can be argued that he sculpted them in real time, with their concurrently geometric and organic shape emerging from the decisions made through his interaction with the materials, as if the final form was discovered rather than planned.

“Salvaged Stories” by will be on view through Sunday, March 2.

02/06/2025

“Cheerleaders,” developed between 2003-2014, marks the beginning of Gertrudis Rivalta’s use of sequins, whose multi-faceted functionality the artist discovered through popular festivals in Spain.

Here, children’s offerings of flowers to a bust of the national hero, José Martí, are intercepted by a strong Black Cuban woman who pushes in the other direction, questioning racial hierarchies and patriarchy.

This piece was part of solo exhibition with the gallery, “Selected Pages,” curated by Jacqueline Loss and presented in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute.

Images details:
Cheerleaders, 2003 - 2017
Mujeres Muchacha Series
57.5 x 77.25 inches
Sequins and oil on canvas

02/03/2025

“With my work I try to share part of the daily life of Cubans, to discover instances of another reality, one in which the individual is the protagonist of an unrepeatable moment.”

Image details:
Image No. 35
A base de viandas series, 2010-2014
31 x 21 inches
Archival pigment print on Moab Pearl
Edition of 7 + 2 AP

01/28/2025

“I recognize that printmaking has been a testimony to our history and has always been used illustratively with motifs from nature. However, I never dwell on the history of printmaking. I always see myself as an artist living in a contemporary world, and printmaking is the medium I use to express myself. Printmaking gives me the structure I want for my life; the processes are lengthy, the results are warm, and there may be errors that I can solve or not. But I think that, in general, humans are like that. We are imperfect, and I would like to accept myself as I am and others as they are. Printmaking allows me that tolerance.”

UNA MANERA DE AMAR (A WAY TO LOVE), 2024
Woodcarving, block
21 x 29 in

01/03/2025

Highlights from a year of incredible collaborations and community.

Thank you & Happy New Year to all!

Exhibitions & Photo Credits
1 “How to Return to a Place That Isn’t There” photo:
2 “Abundance” photo: .o.v
3 “Inward Light” photo:
4 “Salvaged Stories” photo:
5 “How to Return to a Place That Isn’t There” photo:
6 “Salvaged Stories”
7 “How to Return to a Place That Isn’t There” photo:
8 “How to Return to a Place That Isn’t There”
9 “Inward Light” sound bath by photo: .o.v
10 “How to Return to a Place That Isn’t There” “Negro’s Nose” photo: Joaquin Perez

12/28/2024

Animated by a deep interest in questions of human spirituality, Carlos Estévez’s stated goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm of the spirit that lies hidden beneath the visible world, a process he refers to as an alchemical, metaphysical transformation of mystery into knowledge.

One of the defining aspects of island life is the constraint of geographical space, a reality that is particularly pronounced in Cuba due to political circumstances. The inability to travel freely transforms the outside world into a distant dream, an aspiration that often turns into an obsession. In this context, creativity becomes a necessity, a means of survival and self-expression that is born out of the struggle and resilience of the people.

The title of this project, “Internal Light,” is a tribute to and exploration of the energy that the human spirit possesses. Each individual possesses a light from which we draw inspiration from each other. This painting, which gives the exhibition its title, is inspired by two human creations that have caught my attention: patchwork textiles and dreamcatchers.

The tower part of the lighthouse is composed of fragments of various designs inspired by patchwork textiles. Patchwork is a very ingenious solution to the need for large pieces of fabric. A curious harmony of unexpected patterns is formed by joining different remnants of fabric. For me, it signifies the encounter of many stories from different origins coming together to create something new.

Inward Light, 2023 Oil and watercolor pencil on canvas

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