The Prologue Gallery

Prologue presents The Gallery, an immersive culinary art exhibition where chefs and artists interpret a shared idea through food, visual art, architecture, and music.

For its second exhibition, Prologue joins artist Jason A. Toth inside his gallery at 78th Street Studios for Reflections, an exploration of the space between perception and introspection. Through visual art and cuisine, the exhibition considers reflection in both senses: as light returning from a surface, and as the act of turning inward to revisit our choices, examine our motivations, and reconsider the person looking back.

General Admission — $150

Includes a five-course immersive dinner, access to the venue and art exhibitions, and a post-dinner social hour.

Artist-Led Gallery Tour — +$25

Join us an hour before dinner begins for welcome drinks and tour of our venue, led by featured artist Jason A. Toth.

Course List

Reflections unfolds across three core courses, with a Prologue and Epilogue extending the narrative before and after dinner.

The menu for this exhibition will be announced closer to the date of the event. Stay tuned for more details.

The Gallery is Prologue’s recurring series of culinary art exhibitions built around a simple premise: cuisine can participate in an artistic conversation alongside painting, sculpture, architecture, music, design, and other creative disciplines.

Each exhibition begins with a shared idea. Artists working in different mediums are invited to interpret that idea through their own practices, while Prologue develops a parallel culinary interpretation. No discipline is intended to illustrate another. Instead, each becomes an independent response to the same source material.

Guests encounter those interpretations together—moving between artwork, environment, and food while considering how a single idea can change as it passes through different hands, materials, and perspectives.

Every edition of The Gallery introduces a new theme, new collaborators, and a new setting, creating an exhibition that exists only for that particular moment.

Reflections begins with a simple physical phenomenon: light strikes a surface and returns changed by what it encounters.

A polished surface may return an image clearly. Texture can fracture it. Color can absorb certain wavelengths while sending others back. What we perceive is shaped not only by the light itself, but by the object reflecting it and the position from which we choose to look.

The same is true when we reflect upon ourselves.

Memory, experience, ambition, insecurity, and circumstance all influence the image we construct of who we are and why we act. Looking backward can reveal patterns we failed to recognize while living through them; looking inward can force us to question whether the person we have become still reflects the person we intended to be.

Through light, visual art, and cuisine, Reflections explores that tension between surface and self—between what is projected outward, what is perceived by others, and what becomes visible only when we choose to look again.