Hi Everyone!
We hope you can make it to DUMBO tonight from 6-8pm for the opening reception for three fantastic shows here at A.I.R.
In Gallery I, Kathleen Schneider: Petals and Wings
The works in Petals and Wings continue Schneider's engagement with locating gesture and movement (implied action, stopped-action) in sculptures that are discrete, hand-made, self-contained, and still. Five new sculptural pieces feature “equal and opposing actions happening at the same time” and embody the characteristics of simultaneity. Each work in the exhibition fluctuates, in materials and meaning, between the recognizable and the abstract. A large wall assemblage, several hanging spherical clusters, and four framed splashes of color - poised throughout the gallery in dynamic equilibrium - could as easily be described as a large wing, two giant “bouquets “, and four floral “still lives.”
In Gallery II, Feeling what no longer is, Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu
Feeling what no longer is begins with a moment, an experience, or a person from the past as it is reimagined in the present. The artists selected for this exhibition use memory as material and subject in their work, suggesting the interior dialogues these women have had, conversations imagined and experienced with those missing and present. The artists reference personal and cultural histories that document loss and longing, loneliness and community.
Artists in Feeling what no longer is
Eleanor Antin
Elaine Angelopoulos
Doris Salcedo
Kata MejÃa
Elena del Rivero
Sophia Petrides
Sophie Calle
In The Fellowship Gallery, Kira Greene: feastiality
Kira Greene’s recent paintings blend images of lusciously styled food with patterns associated with women in both Eastern and Western culture. The results of this juxtaposition are conceptual self-portraits that represent the plurality and multiplicity of Greene’s identity as an Asian immigrant woman in America. The paradoxes and contradictions that characterize women’s lives – particularly, immigrant women’s lives – inform Greene’s pairings of disparate elements in her paintings.
We hope you can make it to DUMBO tonight from 6-8pm for the opening reception for three fantastic shows here at A.I.R.
In Gallery I, Kathleen Schneider: Petals and Wings
The works in Petals and Wings continue Schneider's engagement with locating gesture and movement (implied action, stopped-action) in sculptures that are discrete, hand-made, self-contained, and still. Five new sculptural pieces feature “equal and opposing actions happening at the same time” and embody the characteristics of simultaneity. Each work in the exhibition fluctuates, in materials and meaning, between the recognizable and the abstract. A large wall assemblage, several hanging spherical clusters, and four framed splashes of color - poised throughout the gallery in dynamic equilibrium - could as easily be described as a large wing, two giant “bouquets “, and four floral “still lives.”
In Gallery II, Feeling what no longer is, Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu
Feeling what no longer is begins with a moment, an experience, or a person from the past as it is reimagined in the present. The artists selected for this exhibition use memory as material and subject in their work, suggesting the interior dialogues these women have had, conversations imagined and experienced with those missing and present. The artists reference personal and cultural histories that document loss and longing, loneliness and community.
Artists in Feeling what no longer is
Eleanor Antin
Elaine Angelopoulos
Doris Salcedo
Kata MejÃa
Elena del Rivero
Sophia Petrides
Sophie Calle
In The Fellowship Gallery, Kira Greene: feastiality
Kira Greene’s recent paintings blend images of lusciously styled food with patterns associated with women in both Eastern and Western culture. The results of this juxtaposition are conceptual self-portraits that represent the plurality and multiplicity of Greene’s identity as an Asian immigrant woman in America. The paradoxes and contradictions that characterize women’s lives – particularly, immigrant women’s lives – inform Greene’s pairings of disparate elements in her paintings.
