Opening Tomorrow 5/27

Hi Everyone!

There is a opening tomorrow at the gallery from 6-8pm - Hope you can make it! Video interviews will be up in the next week!

Gallery I - New York member Sheila Ross' exhibition of photographs {I Am} Just the Birds in the Grass... Ross’ recent body of photographs transforms our view of the natural world so that we see its aliveness anew. The infrared film used captures a wavelength beyond our normal visual spectrum. Such a shift in tonality gives the viewer a sense of rediscovering the once familiar flora. Furthermore, the interaction of film type and local conditions causes the very air to appear visible, a vortex of energy out of which plants crystallize 
in the moment of our glance.

Shelia Ross, Dawn. August. Insifada 1. Infared photograph, Archival digital print, Edition of 10, 2009

Gallery II - National Member Lisa Cooperman's exhibition of hung wall sculpture Seasonal Labor explores discrepancies between material and effort relative to value. Like the shifting workforce hired to pick cherries and wrap holiday presents, artists also work on the fringe in cycle of plenty and want. Through humble material and repetitious construction techniques the artist addresses variations on thevalue of work.

Lisa Cooperman, Roto 2, mixed media, 2010

Gallery III - Fellowship Member damali abrams' exhibition Autobiography of a Year is recent video work in the culmination of a year of footage recorded every day of 2009, the year of abrams' 30th birthday. Autobiography of a Year will be exhibited as a four-channel video installation that takes abrams' personal history as a point of departure. In the spirt of artists such as Sophie Calle, Annie Sprinkle, and Linda Montano, the events in abrams' life become the medium for her art.  The year-long project has served as a D.I.Y. rite of passage as an opportunity for deep and prolonged self-examination. 

damali abrams

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Help Support A.I.R.'s "Open A.I.R." Program!

Hi Everyone,

Since 1972 A.I.R. Gallery has been dedicated to its mission of advancing the status of women artists.  A.I.R.'s latest project "Open A.I.R." invites innovative curatorial ideas from women in various art centered backgrounds. This curatorial call gives self-identified women artists everywhere a chance to realize their artistic vision, when they might not otherwise have a chance to do so it reaches out not only to members of the gallery, but to the whole community.

The first exhibition of the "Open A.I.R." series was Locks in Translation curated by New York Member JoAnne McFarland explored issues around hair, and featured artists Emma Amos, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Jee Hwang, Carolyn Martin, Ann Pachner, Annette Rusin, Barbara Siegel, Lorna Simpson, and Hong Zhang, and poet Elizabeth Alexander.

Feeling What No Longer Is is the second exhibition of this series. Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu, Feeling What No Longer Is explores art that takes someone from the past and re-imagines them in the present, and is up till May 23rd.

 

We are using Kickstarter, an online all-or-nothing funding method to help make "Open A.I.R." a permanent part of A.I.R. Gallery's programs. Our goal is to raise $3000.00 by July 12th. Since this is all-or-nothing, if we do not make our goal, we do not get your pledges. You are only charged for you pledge if the project is successfully funded by the deadline.

So help A.I.R. continue with this amazing program!

-Stephanie

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Interview with Martha Wilson

Hi Everyone!

There is still time to submit applications for the first exhibition of the Currents series At Her Age curated by Martha Wilson. Final deadline is May 14th, 6pm drop off! 

Here is an interview with Martha Wilson about the series, encouraging you to apply!

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A.I.R. Mail - Mid-Spring Edition!

Hi Everyone,

A.I.R.'s seasonal newsletter A.I.R. Mail edited by Barbara Roux will now be featured on the gallery blog! Each newsletter features information on gallery artists, especially upcoming exhibitions and projects going on outside of A.I.R.

Thank you so much Barbara for helping to keep the A.I.R. community up to date!


NEW YORK MEMBER’S NEWS

LIZ BIDDLE has work in a juried show titled Botanical Dreams and Nightmares at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT from April 25 through May 26, 2010.

LOUISE MCCAGG will be exhibiting her sculpture in the Delaware Artists Alliance show from May 21 through June 12, 2010 at the Delaware Arts Center. The opening reception is May 21 from 7-9pm.


BARBARA SIEGEL has her work in Works on Paper at Big & Small/ Casual Gallery from May 21-May 23, 2010. 
Siegel's work is also in the Lehman College Art Gallery 25th Anniversary Salon from May 11 through June 4, 2010.  The Reception is May 11 from 6-8pm.

FELLOWSHIP ARTIST’S NEWS

MONICA CARRIER is in 6-111* coordinated by the Clay Studio, Philadelphia at The Quad in the Haverford School, locate at 450 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA.  The show is up now through April 30, 2010.  Hours are daily from 11am-7pm.
Carrier is also in Both Sides of the Pulaski  at Fine Art in Space which opens on May 21, 2010 from 6-8pm. The space is at 10-47 48th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, NY.

Monica Carrier Spiral on display at 6-111

[image from Carrier's blog]

ANNETTE RUSIN is exhibiting in the Affordable Art Fair to take place from May 6 through May 9, 2010 in Manhattan at 7 West 34th Street.  A number of A.I.R. Gallery members will be participating. http://www.aafnyc.com/

NATIONAL MEMBER’S NEWS

CAROL BORAM-HAYS has a sculpture in “Tempo” at the Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Ohio now through May 14, 2010.

ANN GINSBURGH HOFKIN has one of her works in an exhibition of landscape photography, Landscapes Unfeigned or Illusory at the Minneapolis Photo Center now through June 13.

TARYN WELLS is participating in the first annual Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival from April 23- 25, 2010 in Silver Springs, MD. The show was organized by Tom Block.

ALUMNAE MEMBER’S NEWS

LEILA DAW has eleven mixed media works in the 4 person exhibition Mapping: Outside/Inside at Borowsky Gallery at 401 S. Broad Street in Philadelphia, PA.  The show will be up till August 15, 2010.
KATHERINE DOLGY LUDWIG has been interviewed in Humanus NYU Journal of Human Rights. The interview was by Arianna Koudounas and relates to Kathy’s work for years and her portraits on exhibit at the Pentagon. Again her work was chosen by the New York City’s Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Heritage Week. Kathy will create watercolors of the Statue of Liberty.  She painted her series from different locations and be at site from April 15 through April 21, 2010 interacting with the public. Kathy has had her work now featured in The New York Times Blog, Staten Island Advance and Brooklyn Eagle.

Photo of Katherine Dolgy Ludwig's work from the New York Times Blog

FORUM QUESTION

“Do you sometimes feel the process in your work is more important than the finished work?”

Answers:

“Absolutely!”

“I often feel that my materials are precious and that gathering them for my installations is a ritual in time. So yes it can be more important than the product.”

OPPORTUNITIES

Islip Art Museum, in East Islip, Long Island, NY announces an Open Call for “All in the Family”, a group show. The curator is Jason Paradis.  Exhibit is June 23- September 5, 2010. One work from each artist may be submitted on either June 2, 3, 4 or 5. There is no fee. Call 631-224-5402 for information.




                                

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A.I.R. at the Affordable Art Fair, May 6-9!

Who says you can't afford a piece of art?

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in The Affordable Art Fair NYC 2010, running Thursday May, 6 – Sunday May, 9 2010.



The AAF's goal is to expose the public to exciting art that is affordable. This exciting event is in its 9th year, featuring work starting at $100 and going up to $10,000 from young artists as well as well known names from over 70 galleries!

Location:  7 W New York building at 7 West 34th St near 5th Ave, New York, NY.

Featured Artists include Susan Bee, Liz Biddle, Daria Dorosh, Kira Greene, Jee Hwang, Jisoo Lee, Carolyn Martin, Jeanette May, JoAnne McFarland, Simone Meltesen, Ann Pachner, Keun Young Park, Sheila Ross, Annette Rusin, Kathleen Schneider, Francie Shaw, Barbara Siegel, Joan Snitzer, Nancy Storrow and Jennifer Williams.

To view our exhibitor page please click HERE


We hope to see you at the fair!

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