CURRENTLY ON EXHIBITION TILL OCTOBER 31ST
Gallery I - Louise McCagg
Contact, a large-scale floor installation, hanging structures as well as a large aluminum sculpture. McCagg has constructed a floor installation modeled after molecules adn cells, illustrating both a micro and macro cosmos.
Each sculpture carries McCagg's signature forms: shrunken heads cast from friends and family members. These are position as "linking knots" for the rods that form each pentagon. The second large-scale piece continues the same schema, this time as a suspended installation. The molecules adapted as hanging sculptures; large pentagon-shaped objects carry cast aluminum heads at intervals with wooden rods.
Contact also includes a tall standing sculpture of the same materials. Here, the reduced facial forms interlock with the rods creating the impression of growing tree branches. For this new series, McCagg explores vertical human forms that have a sense of rigidity and pride.
Contact (detail), bronze, 2007.
Members of AIR Gallery met with Louise McCagg to discuss her installation
"Contact." (Louise is pictured on the lower right wearing a red sweater)
Louise is a long-time member of AIR Gallery.
Gallery II - Barbara Roux Birds Grow on Trees is an installation of sculpture, photographs and narrative text. Roux continues her engagement with wild habitat niches on the verge of suburban New York. An active conservationist and combined- media artist, she utilizes her experiences working daily in wild areas to create works that are layered with meaning. This exhibition focuses on a small forested, wetland cove on the north shore of Long Island. Themes of natural history and preservation are subtly woven through this exhibition of works that create a time, place, evidence of an event and emotional connection. The site is brought into the gallery space through sculptures consisting of altered but not disguised elements from the forest.
House of Leaves, digital photograph, 2006.
Gallery III - Crit Streed Making Arrangements Somewhere between an analytic impulse and intuitive reflex Streed quietly dresses the interior of a small room. Vintage milk glass gathered
over the past ten years is the muse for this video/object interaction. A mandala emerged and a video projects an image of a woman relentlessly seeking an arrangement of two chairs. A shared practice of shape shifting becomes a human blend of otherwise disparate actions, a crossbreeding of desired perception and a yearning for resolution. Getting it right is often just trying to get there. The forms suggest functionality but in actuality most pieces were relegated to a display surface. From early American style to bio-morphed modern design, milk glass came into the home primarily through gift giving. This could render some wives and mothers either helpless to avert the deluge or numbed by the assault but often caught up in the frenzy of collecting more. Vases, goblets, vinegar cruets, ashtrays all poised, were rarely called into action but profuse in many homes. The constant shuffling and repositioning on tabletops and in display cases was a means to finding the perfect arrangement.
Crit Streed
A.I.R. GALLERY IN THE NEWS
“Alternative Histories” open till November 24th 2010 at Exit Art at 475 Tenth Avenue in NYC. A.I.R. Gallery is included in the show. The exhibition is about the history of alternative spaces in New York. Exit Art phone is 212-966-7745.
NEW YORK MEMBER’S NEWS
DARIA DOROSH, artist and designer, just launched a one of a kind fashion house with a social, economic and environmental agenda named Fashion Lab in Process. Daria presented her work at the American Folk Art Museum Branch Gallery on September 10, 2010 in NYC.
NANCY LASAR will have six pieces in a group show titled “Artists Teaching Artists” at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT. The show was curated by Darby Cardonsky and includes work by Wolf Kahn. It is on view from October 18 through November 23, 2010. The Opening Reception is October 28 from 4-7pm.
JEANETTE MAY begins teaching at
International Center for Photography, ICP, in New York City this autumn. For anyone interested in current trends in photography” her course is “From Deadpan to Directorial: Contemporary Photographic Practices”.
BARBARA SIEGEL has her work featured in a short video “Pinus Strobus” by Augusta Palmer and will accompany a pillow Barbara has made for the upcoming A.I.R. sponsored “Pillow Culture” exhibit. Barbara is now in Seoul, Korea teaching a course in drawing at the
Sungshin Women’s University for both the Western and Oriental Painting Departments.
FELLOWSHIP ARTIST’S NEWS
KIRA GREENE has her work in a number of shows. She is in “Radial Patterning” at the
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery at 555 Eighth Avenue in NYC through October 9, 2010. Kira is in “Memento Mori: Contemporary Vanities” at the
Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street in Newburgh, NY now through October 30, 2010 and she was in “Show Untitled” at Thaddeus Kwiat Projects in Saugerties, NY this summer.
Archway to Happiness, Kira Greene in the exhibition "Memento Mori: Contemporary Vanities"
ANNE PERCOCO presented an interactive sculpture in late September 2010 weather providing at the Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY. Anne is finishing up her Residency with Residency Unlimited and will be in a show called “I Broke It, I Borrowed It, I Stole It” on the Lower Level of Stephan Stoyanov Gallery. The address is 29 Orchard Street in NY. Then on October 3, 2010 from 2-5pm Anne will be part of “Barter Town”, an art event for the public organized by Heather Hart for Art in Odd Places. It will take place on the southwest corner of 14th Street and Avenue C in NYC. Anne will be in a group show titled “Convergence” at Lumenhouse at 47 Beaver Street in Brooklyn, NY from October 16 through December 12, 2010. This is in coordination with Project Vortex and highlights artists who transform plastic debris.
NATIONAL MEMBER’S NEWS
PHYLLIS EWEN is in “The Space Between” collaboration with Denise Bergman, poet from October 4 - November 1, 2010 at Marran Gallery of Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. The Opening Reception is October 5 from 4:30 – 7:00pm. A poetry reading will take place on October 12 from 7 – 8:30 pm. Phyllis was also part of the “Maud Morgan Art Center Faculty Show” at the Fay Chandler Gallery, 20 Sacramento Street in Cambridge, MA.
KATSURA OKADA exhibited her work in Japan this summer. Over 1000 people came to visit the “5th Blue Sky Project exhibition” at the Civic Gallery in Nigata, Japan which closed in August, 2010. It then traveled to the Imai Museum of Art Mitsuke City, Nigata, Japan. There was also wonderful
press.
ALUMNAE NEWS
LEILA DAW is in three events in Connecticut. She is in the group show “Festival Exhibition” at Artspace, 50 Orange Street, New Haven, CT through October 23, 2010. Leila was part of Open Studios in New Haven on September 25, 2010. Leila’s work is in a 4 person show titled “Earth & Sky” at
Loomis Chaffee School’s Mercy Gallery in Windsor, CT now through October 27, 2010.
MARY MAUGHELLI is in a Residence at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, CA for two weeks working on collage paintings on paper and canvas.
OPPORTUNITIES
Ansel Adams Research Fellowship at the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography. Application Deadline is 10/29/10.
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