A.I.R. Mail - Summer Edition

Again, a special thanks to Barbara Roux for putting the newsletter together!

NEW YORK MEMBER’S NEWS
SUSAN BEE has a book in the exhibition “In Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946-1981)”. The show is at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th St., 3rd floor, NY.  It is on view through September 11, 2010.  This exhibit is curated by Kyle Schlesinger. It will travel to the Museum of Printing History in Texas and a catalog will accompany it.

LIZ BIDDLE will be in a 4 person show at Casa Frela Gallery at 47 West 119th St. in Harlem, NYC from July 31 through September 12, 2010. The Opening Reception is Saturday, July 31 from 4-8 pm and the Closing Party is September 10 from 6-10 pm.

Liz Surbeck Biddle

DARIA DOROSH was one of 12 artists selected to participate in the Abbey Mural Workshop on public art led by Grace Graupe Pillard for the month of July at the National Academy of Design on Fifth Avenue in upper Manhattan, NY.

NANCY LASAR is exhibiting her paintings and works on paper in a group show titled “The Nature of it All” at Amy Simon Fine Art in Westport, CT.  The show is up now through July 17, 2010.

SHEILA ROSS had her recent solo show at A.I.R. reviewed by the Shambhala Sun, a Buddhist magazine.

 Sheila Ross Forenoon. October. Vermont II

FELLOWSHIP ARTIST’S NEWS

DAMALI ABRAMS has a new video piece in a show titled “Ain’t I A Woman” at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts at 80 Hanson Place in Brooklyn, NY.  The show is curated by Kimberli Gant.  It is on view from July 15 through December 19, 2010.

SUZANNE BROUGHEL has work in a group show titled “Model Home” now through August 31, 2010 at Roger Smith Hotel Gallery, 16th Fl. at 501 Lexington Avenue, NY.  The show represents the work of 8 women of the New York based tART collective.  There is an Opening Reception on July 28 from 5:30-8:30 pm.  Suzanne has also had her work added to the Smack Mellon website for Hot Picks 2010.

Suzanne Broughel

 

 JEE HWANG is now part of the exhibition “From the Tongue” a show of works on paper or fiber exploring text and language at the 34 North Moore Street/Lotus Gallery Space in Tribeca, NY. The show is curated by Joetta Maue.  This exhibition is on view through August 6, 2010. Jee will also be in “Non-Native New York” at the De Castellane Gallery on 525 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, NY from August 5 through August 22, 2010.  This show focuses on the cultural contributions of foreign born artists in Brooklyn.  There will be an Opening Reception on August 5 from 6-9 pm. (Check out the interview with Jee!)

JIYOON KOO has an abstract painting in “Subtle Anxiety: This Is How You Feel” at Doosan Gallery in New York. The show is up from July 15 through August 14, 2010. 

ANITA RAGUSA has a drawing in a group show titled “Graphomania” at the Garbageman/Astronaut Project Space at the Everett Station Lofts at 625 NW Everett St. #107 in Portland, OR.  The show is up through July 29, 2010.

NATIONAL MEMBER’S NEWS

CAROL-BORAM- HAYS is one of 2 featured artists in “Deconstructed Elements” at the Upper Arlington Concourse Gallery at Columbus, OH from July 28 through August 2, 2010.

ALUMNAE MEMBER’S NEWS

NANCY AZARA is giving summer 2010 workshops in the arts.  One is at Truro Center for the Arts in Massachusetts titled “The Spiritual Side: Painting & Sculpture” from July 26-30, 9 am to noon.  Another workshop is at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY titled “Rubbings & Tracings as Memoir" from August 16-20.Nancy will also give a “Visual Diaries Workshop at her Woodstock, NY studio on Saturday, August 7. nancy@nancyazara.com

KATHY DOLGY LUDWIG has her painting Brooklyn Funk Universe in a juried show opening at Soho 20 Gallery in Chelsea now chosen by Phong Bui. This painting is now the cover of Humanus, NYU Human Rights Journal. The show will be up from July 20 –August 14, 2010. Soho 20 is at 547 West 27th St., NYC, suite 301.

Kathy Dolgy Ludwig,  Brooklyn Funk Universe,  2006

ADRIENNE HEINRICH has won 2 juror’s awards in the AAP Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA.  The show opens July 23 through late September 2010.  Her work will also be installed in the Frank Lloyd Wright’s creation Fallingwater in PA now through November 2010.

FORUM QUESTION

“How important has your formal education been to your art career?”

Answers:

“In response to your question; 50% of my “formal” education has contributed to my art career.  The good ½ (of that 50%) has been in terms of my discipline + inspiration. The bad ½ has been in terms of disappointment + gender discrimination, large.”

“I think that for me one of the most important aspects of my formal education was to discover that there was a community of others like myself who lived to make art. The educational environment was a validation and gave me the sense of belonging to a community of art through the ages. This kind of support is equal to any formal art training that schools provide. It also taught me the importance of context to art.”

“My formal education at Rhode Island School of Design from 1963-1968 was very important to my art career and to my image of myself as an artist.”

“My education includes Art Students League and National Academy to the State and City University for my Bachelor’s and MFA.  Each program helped in some way with perception, technique, concepts and theory.  My non -art classes helped as much as the art courses did.”

OPPORTUNITIES

New Artist Registry for Brooklyn artists is http://registry.bricartsmedia.org/index.php

Department of Buildings and the Department of Cultural Affairs in New York are having a competition.


Call for work responding to location, identity and perception in NYC. http://recessionartshows.com/submit

Open Call for Book Art show. Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY Deadline August 31, 2010. www.wahcenter.net 

409 Artists' Works at A.I.R.!

One of the best things about A.I.R. is how diverse the exhibitions are. Currently, 409 artists' works are in the gallery; the 400 artists of Wish You Were Here 9, the 7 artists of  A.I.R. Expedition Sweden,  and fellowship recipient Keun Young Park! Visit the gallery to experience this truly unique group till July 18th.

Wish You Were Here 9 is a  exhibition of postcard sized works for which the sale benefits the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Artists. Each card is signed and dated, often with a message from the artist. All 4"x6" works are priced at $40.00, with diptychs priced at $80 and triptychs at $120.

Up for silent auction is a print donated by Kiki Smith and an ink drawing on a sea grape leaf by Mary Frank.   The sale of these works continues till July 18th.

Visitor at the opening admiring work donated by Kiki Smith. Come by and put in your bid! 

Photo Credit Jeanette May

Look at all the amazing postcards!

Photo Credit Jeanette May

Also at the opening, we were honored to have representatives from the Swedish Embassy visit for A.I.R. Expedition Sweden, an international exchange exhibition featuring seven Swedish women artists. 

Artist Margareta Lindman with representative from the Swedish Embassy

Photo Credit Jeanette May

Artist Hjordis Johansson Becker with representative from the Swedish Embassy

Photo Credit Jeanette May

 

 Photo Credit Daria Dorosh

 Photo Credit Daria Dorosh

Fellowship artist Keun Young Park had an impressive opening with her micro collages.  Park is interested in the process of deconstruction and regeneration. Her process of taking photographs which she manipulates digitally, to ultimately tear and reassemble, Park  demonstrates the simultaneous presence and absence of permanence.

Photo Credit Jeanette May

I hope you take the time to come to Brooklyn and visit! I would love to hear your responses to the work, please share in our comments section!

-Stephanie 

Meet the Artists of A.I.R. Expedition Sweden

After a 4,000 mile journey, A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to welcome 7 artists from Sweden. A.I.R. has hosted a series of international exchange exhibitions since 1976, as part of the gallery's mission to provide a community for women artists and provide the opportunity to show their diverse work.

To the artists in the exhibition, thank you for traveling all this way and sharing your wonderful work! It was a joy to meet you and I hope our paths cross in the future.

-Stephanie

 Hjördis Becker’s motifs recall traveling and a journey; empty coat hangers on the line, chairs left behind, drawings of footprints, birds poised in the same direction, as in flight. Pictures developed as in a darkroom, clarified and surprising.

Annika Erixån paints artifacts that become part of a sculpture that becomes an ink drawing. It is like practicing a language, conjugating words into sentences, joining it all together.

Margareta Krantz’s icons in textile are mysterious, puzzling, while at the same time they dazzle with shimmering colors.

Margareta Lindman creates a language, which does not have any order or a hierarchical structure. Her works have a feeling of wool and milk - something very old-fashioned in a story that we follow in winding paths cluttered with associations.

Birgitta Nenzén, fragmented pictures joined together like musical notation that never ends, like humming. The sculptures have firm forms but with notches, turning into cog-wheels that grip into each other and then move on. The embroideries from past generations of women are also a kind of notation that here becomes a slow tale of roots and heritage.

For Aino Näslund, everyday items are things that separate and become symbols or simple indicators.  Her contours are strong and soft, like a dialect that sings - both comfortingly and heartfelt.

Irene Trotzig, is totally natural in her painting, the forms penetrate each other like a strong light that dissolves all and everything. Its own values of perspective builds, turn, twist the colors that roar and resound. 

A.I.R. Expedition Sweden is open till July 18th. 

A.I.R. Mail & Exhibition Closings

Hi Friends,

Hope you are enjoying the lovely weather! There is a lot going on in the A.I.R. community, and I hope you can participate!

This Sunday, June 20th, is a closing party from 4-6pm at the gallery for Sheila Ross' {I am} just a bird in the grass, Lisa Cooperman's Seasonal Labor and damali abrams' Autobiography of a Year.  

 Installation shot Sheila Ross {I am} just a bird in the grass 

Photo Credit Jeanette May

Installation shot Lisa Cooperman Seasonal Labor

Photo Credit Jeanette May

Installation shot damali abrams Autobiography of a Year

Photo Credit Jeanette May

NEW YORK MEMBER’S NEWS

LIZ BIDDLE will be in a ceramic show at the Hat Factory on the corner of Bank and Main Street in Peekskill, NY.  The Reception is Saturday, June 5th.  The show will be up for three weeks.

NANCY LASAR will be exhibiting with 4 other women in “The Nature of It All” at Amy Simon Fine Art in Westport, CT.  The show is up from June 12 through July 17, 2010.  The Opening Reception is Saturday, June 12 from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

JEANETTE MAY just published a catalogue of her “Easy on the Eyes” series of photographs. It is printed on demand from Blurb Books.

FRANCIE SHAW had her recent spring exhibition at A.I.R. “Weights and Measures” reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail by Craig Olson in May. His piece was very favorable and highlighted the strengths of Francie’s works on paper.

NANCY STORROW will be showing a group of her drawings at The Elliot Street Café in Brattleboro, VT for the months of June and July 2010.

FELLOWSHIP ARTIST’S NEWS

SUZANNE BROUGHEL is part of a group show titled “Natural Renditions” curated by Diana Campbell and Eric Gleason at Marlborough Chelsea in NYC. The show is up from June 3 through July 9, 2010. The gallery is at 545 West 25th Street, NYC.
Suzanne is also in a show titled “In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces” curated by Juanita Lanzo at the Longwood Art Gallery at 450 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, NY.  The show is extended through August 4th, 2010.
 

JULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE has been shortlisted for a sculpture prize at the Excalibur Bronze Foundry.  Her work was just exhibited there as part of “Sculpture 2010” this May. This was the 1st Annual Juried Sculpture Exhibition and Candlelight Bronze Pour Event.  Excalibur Bronze Sculpture Foundry is at 309 Starr Street in Brooklyn, NY.
Juliana be in the exhibition "Mind Your Figure" from June 24-27th at 409 west 39th Street, New York, NY 10018.  Mind Your Figure will feature paintings, sculptures, photography and video works by eight young artists residing in New York: Ben Olson, Chris Sachs,  Haeri Yoo,  Juliana Leite, Kate Gilmore, M.A.Y.O. , and Megan Hays.
Juliana will also be part of "Bold Tendencies IV," the annual sculpture group show curated by the Hannah Barry Gallery in London (133 Copeland Rd., Peckham, London). Opening June 30th.

ANNE PERCOCO will be leading an “Assembly Line” workshop at EFA Project Space on the evening of June 30, 2010. “Assembly Line” is a bi weekly event that matches artists with a group of willing production assistants to realize labor intensive projects. Anne is currently recruiting participants for this workshop on June 30.  E-mail Anne if you want to volunteer. sally@efanyc.org

ANITA RAGUSA is part of “Drawing Show: A Show of Drawings Drawn by Drawers” (working title) at the Garbage Man/Astronaut Gallery in Portland, OR.The show opens on July 1, 2010.

NATIONAL MEMBER’S NEWS

MARIE SIVAK has her work included in the exhibition “I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind”, curated by Hiro Sakaguchi at the Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.  The show is up now through June 22, 2010.


OPPORTUNITIES

Annual Contest of Plastic Art in Spain has a deadline of June 24. Sculpture, painting and ceramics are acceptable. The theme is open and only one work from each artist is acceptable.
For more information go to http://www.callforart.com and check out Opportunities.

The Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery has an open call for Visual Artists.  The exhibit is the theme “Robes”.  Deadline for submission of j-pegs is July 15, 2010. The website is http://www.maloneyartgallery.cse.edu  The gallery is in the College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ.

If you have the chance to check any of these events out, please share your thoughts in our comments section!

-Stephanie

P.S.  I would like to give a special thanks to Barbara Roux for coordinating A.I.R. Mail :) 

Video Interviews

Hi Everyone!


This past weekend I had the opportunity to interview Sheila Ross and Damali Abrams on their current exhibitions. Both Ross and Abrams offer an interesting perspective on their processes, using photography and video. I hope you enjoy!





Here is a small part of Abrams' installation Autobiography of a Year

 


-Stephanie