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Judy Chung: Cafeteria at RAINRAIN

Name: Judy Chung: Cafeteria at RAINRAIN
Start: 2026-02-13T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-14T23:59:59-04:00

February 13 - March 14

JUDY CHUNG: CAFETERIA AT RAINRAIN
110 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013, February 13 – March 14, 2026, Wed- Sat, 11 am – 6 pm

RAINRAIN presents Cafeteria, Judy Chung’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring new paintings centered on the school cafeteria as a charged social microcosm. Exploring how identity is formed and negotiated in public, Chung stages collisions between cute and grotesque, sincerity and artifice. Drawing on anime, Baroque drama, and digital image culture, her psychologically charged figures navigate judgment, belonging, and cultural displacement shaped by her transnational upbringing. Spaghetti recurs as an ambiguous symbol of comfort and abjection. Anchored by Symbiosis (Cafeteria) (2025), the exhibition also includes works such as Spaghetti Lariat and Communion, where social ritual, violence, and performance converge.

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Start: February 13
End: March 14
Event Category: Exhibitions
Event Tags:anime influence in painting, Baroque drama influence, brooklyn artist, Cafeteria exhibition, Communion painting, contemporary figurative painting, cultural displacement in art, cute and grotesque in art, digital image culture, emerging contemporary artist NYC, February 2026 art exhibition New York, identity in contemporary art, Judy Chung, Judy Chung solo exhibition, performance and violence in painting, psychological figures in art, RAINRAIN gallery, RAINRAIN New York, school cafeteria theme, sincerity and artifice, social microcosm in art, social ritual in art, Spaghetti Lariat, spaghetti motif in art, Symbiosis Cafeteria 2025, transnational identity
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