Little Cakes Little Gallery recently re-located to a 'kind-of' storefront, with a small gallery in the front, on 6th St - between Aves B & C, .. still in the East Village, but NO longer in Hanna's former space: her small 3rd floor apt. living room! .. (where despite its size, some of the city's most astonishing installations took place - transforming the space, totally, each time). Little Cakes Little Gallery, 625 E 6th Street #1B, NYC. Sept 30, 2006 - you can begin to catch a glimp of the inaugural show, through the bottom half of the window, behind the iron window guard.

the only sign that this is Little Cakes, is the small LC sticker on the door - Little Cakes Little Gallery, E 6th Street, Sept 30, 2006

HANNA FUSHIHARA ARON, founder/director, Little Cakes, greets you. the ground floor storefront is really an archetypal NYC 'railroad' apt. The front is the gallery, presenting the inaugural show; 'taza taza' by GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA and JULIAN GATTO. The small gallery office is just behind Hanna, and behind the wood & glass doors are the living quarters. there's even a flowering yard in the back. Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

Little Cakes founder, HANNA FUSHIHARA ARON with her husband, artist & musician, DAVID ARON, in the gallery office - the new location of Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

stepping back to to take in the show - the big strengths of Little Cakes - are Hanna's curatorial vision and installation/presentation skills. HANNA FUSHIHARA ARON and DAVID ARON, with the inaugural exhibit, 'taza taza' by GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA and JULIAN GATTO, at the new Little Cakes Little Gallery Esat Village location, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, ... "yes this gentle robot has been programmed to see us through these troubled times..", watercolor, 'taza taza', the inaugural show of the new 6th street location, Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA and JULIAN GATTO, 'taza taza', the inaugural show, Little Cakes Little Gallery, 6th Street re-location, Sept 30, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, 'Conejo', pencil, colored pencil on paper, 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006 - this delicate yet eloquent show scored a review by HOLLAND COTTER, in the 'Art In Review' section of the New York Times, Friday, Sept 29, 2006 - which said, in part ... "that the gallery hasn't increased in size is important to its craft-based, private feeling, nostalgic-utopian aesthetic. Guillermina Baiguera and Julian Gatto exemplify it ..."

the HOLLAND CARTER article goes on to state: .. "Based in Buenos Aires, they (Guillermina Baiguere and Julian Gatto) sometimes collaborate, but mostly do separate but related work. Mr. Gatto is showing several watercolor drawings of semi-abstract, leaflike forms, as well as biomorphic embroideries. Ms. Baiguera has expert floral drawings in pencil and a variety of embroideries, minutley detailed and painting-like... Much of their work is inspired by and plays off, everyday objects - china cups, ice cream molds, glass lampshades .. Many such items are on display in the gallery, and at first glance it's almost impossible to distinguish them from the art. EVERYTHING, OLD and NEW, seems intimately connected in this sweetspirited show in one of the city's more distinctive galleries." Holland Carter on 'taza taza'. installation shot, Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, embroidered 'teardrops', 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

up close, GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, 'teardrops', 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery', Sept 30, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA and JULIAN GATTO, 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, embroidered 'palm leaf', ($350), 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, 'red teardrops (group) with cup', ($250), 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, gouache, watercolor on paper, GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, 'one teardrop', 'tan half moon', 'half heart', 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 29, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, JULIAN GATTO, 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 29, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, 'tan half moon', 'half heart', 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, 'Orquides', pencil, colored pencil, (pair $300) 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery', Sept 30, 2006

on shelf, JULIAN GATTO, color pencil on paper, (framed $400), 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, woodblock print, edition of 4, (unframed $200), 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, JULIAN GATTO, 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, 'pine cone', 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

reverse side, JULIAN GATTO, 'pine cone', 'taza taza'. Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, 'trees', 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO, 'taza taza', Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

before leaving, we caught a quick tour of the private living quarters in the back, and couldn't resist this snap of a DAVID ARON painting, in its casual perch, in his studio space. Little Cakes Little Gallery, Sept 30, 2006

JULIAN GATTO and GUILLERMINA BAIGUERA, during the installation of 'taza taza' at Little Cakes.. both 27, they currently live and work in Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA. Guillermina is currently studying Graphic Design and Linguistics at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Julian graduated from the Cooper Union, NYC in 2006 (BFA) - he had a one person show there in 2006, titled: 'Six Triangles Under the Cherry Tree'.

THEIR 'taza taza' installation was the inaugral show of the 6th Street Little Cakes re-location, the press release states: "for this show Little Cakes invited the Argentian duo, to take viewers on a quiet, sweet, emotionally charged jorney through their hearts.." PHOTO BY HANNA FUSHIHARA ARON, COURTESY LITTLE CAKES LITTLE GALLERY.

THE DIKER PAVILION for NATIVE ARTS and CULTURES, at the SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERICAN INDIAN, is the newest facility to be carved out of their landmarked Beaux-Arts building, know locally as .. the old customs house, (more properly termed the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House) at One Bowling Green, just across from Battery Park, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan.
Opening to the public on Sept 23, 2006, it is a 6,000 sq. ft. space which features 10 exhibition cases, (set into historic window niches), 2 interactive learning stations, theatrical lighting, a film screen, and a custom built 'sprung maple' floor - for native dance exhibitions.
The opening exhibit, its title says it all - 'Beauty Surrounds Us', features masterworks of native cultures throughout the hemisphere, from the museum's collection, including children's clothing, games and musical instruments. As the title and the exhibits make clear, the integration of art and daily life, transcends the separations of craft and art and spirit, which our society in its rush to 'super civilization' is just beginning to truly comprehend, anew.
'Beauty Surrounds Us' was curated by museum public programs manager JOHANNA GORELICK.

The museum is free and open every day from 10am to 5pm and on Thursday til 8pm.
www.americanindian.si.edu

the entrance to the new DIKER PAVILION for NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES, at the SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERICAN INDIAN, GEORGE GUSTAV HEYE CENTER, NYC, Sept 21, 2006

at right, JOHN HAWORTH (Cherokee), Director of the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City, a permanent exhibition and educational facility of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, with Stephanie Betancourt (Seneca) an exhibit facilitator, at the press preview for the opening of the DIKER PAVILION for NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES, Sept 21, 2006

Quechua child's costume, ca. 1940, Peru, wool cloth, rickrack, fur, buttons, dyes, 'Beauty Surrounds Us', DIKER PAVILION for NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES, GEORGE GUSTAV HEYE CENTER, NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERICAN INDIAN, NYC, Sept 21, 2006

Crow girl's dress, ca. 1915, Montana, USA, wool cloth, cotton cloth, elk teeth, bone, hide, red pigment, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Karuk woman's two-piece skirt, ca. 1890, Northwestern California, deerskin, beargrass, woodwardia and maidenhair, fern stems, abalone shells, clam shells,

Wallawalla man's leggings, ca. 1880, Washington, USA, cornhusk, hemp twine, wool yarn, wool cloth, cotton cloth, hide, rabbitskin, silk ribbon, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Kiowa woman's legging moccasins, ca 1890, Oklahoma, USA, leather, hide, glass beads, yellow pigment, German silver bosses, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

detail, Kiowa woman's legging moccasins, ca. 1890, Oklahoma, USA, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Cree Metis man's gauntlet gloves, ca. 1930, Manitoba, CANADA, leather, silk embroidery floss, beaver fur, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Kuna woman's 'wini', (beaded wrist and leg ornaments), 2005, Made by CLEMENTINE RIVERA, Panama, glass beads, thread, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Navajo saddle blanket, ca. 1880, New Mexico, USA, commercially produced wool yarns, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Mohave woman's collar, ca. 1910, Arizona, USA, glass beads, thread, twine, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Quinault woman's breastplate, ca. 1880, Washington, USA, hide, dentalium shells, glass beads, cordage, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

detail, Quinault woman's breastplate, ca. 1880, Washington, USA, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Flathead man's headdress, ca. 1915, Jocko Reservation, Montana, USA, wool felt hat, eagle feathers, cotton cloth, glass beads, silk, ribbon, horsehair, ermine skins, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Mapuche woman's 'trarilonko' (headband), ca. 1900, Chile, German Silver, and contemporary earrings, Mapuche woman's earrings, 2001, JUAN ANTONIO PAINICURA, Nueva Imperial IX region, CHILE, silver, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Mapuche woman's 'tupu' (shawl pin), ca. 2000, Temuco, Araucania, CHILE, silver, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Paviotso (Northern Paiute) carrying basket, ca. 1900, Pyramid Lake reservation, Nevada, USA, willow shoots, leather, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

lakota drum and stick, ca. 1870, North or South Dakota, USA, wood, hide, paint, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

close-up on that early American 'cartoon' art, Lakota drum and stick, ca. 1870, North or South Dakota, USA, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Jicarilla Apache parfleche case, ca. 1875, Arizona, USA, animal hide, paint, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Sioux possible bag, ca. 1870, probably North Dakota, USA, hide, glass beads, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

close-up on some more ... early American cartoon art, I guess we're secure enough as the dominant culture, to show the "counting" of heads of the enemy white man .. Sioux possible bag, ca. 1870, probably North Dakota, USA, DIKER PAVILION, Sept 21, 2006

Sioux child's sled, ca. 1900, North or South Dakota, USA, buffalo rib bones, DIKER PAVILION, PHOTO: COURTESY SMITHSONIAN National Museum of the American Indian, Sept 2006

upstairs in the exhibit, 'indigenous MOTIVATIONS', Recent Acquisitions from the National Museum of the American Indian, Quechua and Aymara 'chullos', (men's hats) ca. 1955, Departments of Cuz, Puno, and Pasco, Peru, BOLIVIA, yarn (wool, alpaca, llama), buttons. GIFT OF CARL and BLANCHE BERMAN, 1997. PHOTO: COURTESY SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

also upstairs in the 'indigenous MOTIVATIONS' exhibit, Recent Acquisitions from the national Museum of the American Indian, Quechua women's 'monteras', (hats) and Aymara woan's by hat,ca. 1955, Department of Cusco, Peru, and Department of Cochabamba, BOLIVIA. These hats are usually made of wool cloth,felt , velvet, or cotton cloth on a woven straw base, decorated with wool yarn, ribbon, fabric trims, embroidery floss, and gold thread. The helmet-shaped black Quechua casque is made of llama hide. GIFT OF CARL AND BLANCHE BERMAN, 1997. PHOTO: COURTESY SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN