Feminist Art Collectives in New York

Feminist Art Collectives in New York: An Anthropological Perspective

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 4:00pm

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium (Map and directions)

New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018-2788
Fully accessible to wheelchairs

Aseel Sawalha, researcher in residence at The New York Public Library's Wertheim Study and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University, will present an illustrated lecture:  Feminist Art Collectives in New York: An Anthropological Perspective.

Sawalha examines New York feminist art of the 1970s and 80s from the perspective of anthropology. This talk focuses on two women's arts collectives: The New York Feminist Art Institute and Heresies (both a school and a magazine). Based on archival research, interviews with artists, and resources of The New York Public Library, the talk highlights the ways these collectives were influenced in three directions: social movements (civil rights, women's liberation, and anti-war); the art world; and the economy (late industrial capitalism and early globalization). How did the ideals of these collectives collide with the mundane, day-to-day workings of running an organization? This talk explores the tensions of women's alternative arts groups in a turbulent era.

Aseel Sawalha is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University. Her Middle East ethnography, Reconstructing Beirut, was recently published by University of Texas Press, and she is now conducting fieldwork on New York and Middle East women artists.

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Solo Show: Phyllis Ewen | CORRIENTES MUNDIALES (Global Currents)

Phyllis Ewen is having  a solo show at Gallery Espacio Abierto in El Vedado, Havana, Cuba. Corrientes Mundiales (Global Currents) will be up from December 15th, 2010 to January 15, 2011. The Artist will be present at the opening reception on December 15th at 4:30.

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Jeesoo Lee

Jeesoo Lee is included in a two person show at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. The show will be up from December 3rd, 2010 to Jan 1, 2011

Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Hours: Sat & Sun 2-6pm and by appointment

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Regina Granne @ The Crumpled Press

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Interview with Sylvia Netzer by Antia Cea

If we divided the process of a work of art, broadly speaking we can find three stages: the most creative one in which you get the ideas, after that, you can produce it, make it physical or real; and finally, you try to show it to the world.

Always, I wanted to be involved in an art process that wasn’t mine. I wanted to know more about how the process worked; from coming up with the idea to the installation in the gallery. I am an intern in A.I.R. Gallery and I was working in the Sylvia Netzer’s studio.

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First, It is intimate moment of the artist, so I have the opportunity to ask the artist directly.

Do you follow any method to create?

“My method to get to the final idea was through the drawings. I draw a lot before to get to the idea of necklace.”

How do you get the idea of those new pieces?

“Last year I had a show where the pieces where hanging from the ceiling and I thought about making the next pieces hang from the wall. I don’t like the pedestal for sculpture because I find them very old fashioned. They require that each piece be thought about very carefully (size, shape, proportions…).”

What are your influences?

“My influence was the film “Auntie Mame” by Morton DaCosta, 1958. It is about a rich eccentric woman and her wild style of life. She wants to decorate her house and she hung the furniture from the ceiling and it could lift like an elevator.”

During two months, we were working on the process for Sylvia Netzer’s exhibit for A.I.R. Gallery, “Redux”. I worked with her during the production stage.

The necklaces are made with clay, but the clay process wasn’t typical. “I was very under time pressure, then I decided to use molds”. We made something like clay blankets and we adapted them to the molds (we had several, that is why each ball of the necklace was different).

The next stage was the installation.

The installation was insane. Sylvia wanted to hang the pieces like a necklace on the wall. Each ball was very heavy to hang in a usual way (and we only had two days). After all, all the works look amazing.

“During the install I felt very nervous and anxious.”

How do you feel when you see them? Do you feel that you need to build a relationship with their subjects or do you need to remain detached?

“I still feel nervous, I am happy, I love the show. I feel a relationship. When I have a show, I feel very exposed. I feel my work is very personal; often, psychological and sexual, and relating with biology and science.”

What perception do you think the observer has?

“A lot of them feel like “what is this??” “That doesn’t mean anything” but it means so much for me. I am pleased to be able to make what I imagine.”

At the end, I have a quote, “Only when one approaches the work of art non-judgmentally does it begin to reveal the artist’s personality and creativity and their relationship.’’

- Donald Kuspit, “The End of Art”

“That’s really good.”

 

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More Sylvia´s studio pictures : http://misconfetisdecolores.blogspot.com/2010/10/ultimo-dia-en-el-estudio-de-sylvia.html

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Mary Beth Edelson @ MoMA

Mary Beth Edelson's Death of the Patriarchy, a collage based on Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp is included in the MoMA's Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. The show is on view until April 4th 2011. Edelson has been a brilliant agitator in feminist movements since her early teens. She was a member of A.I.R. from 1975 until 1983.

Death of the Patriarchy, Mary Beth Edelson

Mary Beth Edelson received her B.A. in 1955 from DePauw University and her M.F.A. from New York University in 1959. Edelson’s art production consists of a hybrid of diverse media including: photo-based work, painting, sculpture, drawing, performance, silk screen, artists’ books, posters, fabric works, collages, story-gathering boxes, video and installation. The selection of materials and production methods are determined by what is appropriate for that particular project. Edelson’s work is rooted in feminism, political activism, collaboration, and public participation. A feminist, her work focuses on a female-centered spirituality based on Jungian archetypes. In 1977, Edelson traveled to a cave in Hvar Island, Yugoslavia, where she began her ritual performances. Three years later, she returned to painting and now lives in New York. She has been featured in over 30 art books and her work is widely exhibited and critiqued in the U.S. and abroad in the diverse literature of psychology, women’s studies, feminist theory, photography, theology and art. Edelson’s art has been collected by numerous museums including: the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Corcoran Gallery and the Walker Art Center. She is a prominent lecturer and has written four books, the most recent of which is The Art of Mary Beth Edelson.

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A.I.R. Founding member Kazuko Miyamoto

A.I.R. Founding member Kazuko Miyamoto is profiled in:

“Il Giappone appeso a un filo” (Japan Hangs by a Thread) by Manuela De Leonardis in Il Manifesto, Tuesday, October 26, 2010.

Il Manifesto is a daily leftist newspaper from Italy.

A.I.R. NY member Luisa Sartori translated part of the article for us.

Japanese-American artist Kazuko Miaymoto is having a show at the Alessandra Bonomo Gallery in conjunction with the International Cinema Festival “Risonanze.”

The artist immigrated to New York in the 1960s, and was an assistant to Sol Le Witt for many years.

Miyamoto has been a member of A.I.R. Gallery since it was founded in 1972. Now in Brooklyn, A.I.R. is the first all-women’s cooperative gallery in the world. They are open to international artists as well as American. Their most famous members were Nancy Spero and Ana Medieta.

A.I.R. means “Artists In Residence,” which came about because of artists taking residence in abandoned loft spaces in soho in the 1960s and 70s. Additionally, women artists had a difficult time showing their work back then, which is another reason A.I.R. came to be.

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SUSAN BEE

You are cordially invited to a talk by

Susan Bee
on her art work
at the opening reception of her exhibition at the Brodsky Galley

Location:
Kelly Writers House
at the University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia
 
Tuesday, November 16 at 6pm.

Susan Bee, The Rescue (2005, 28 x 22", oil on linen).
Collection: Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw

The show includes older and more recent paintings & pages from her artist's books.



SUSAN BEE is an artist, editor and designer who works and lives in New York City. Her work examines and questions intersections of identity, gender roles and secular Jewish culture. As an artist, she believes strongly in the role of the imagination and the importance of poetry, humor, irony, memory, and fantasy in art. She also believes in idiosyncratic, individualistic, and eccentric art making. She has published six artist's books with Granary Books, including collaborations with poets: Bed Hangings, with Susan Howe, A Girl's Life, with Johanna Drucker, Log Rhythms and Little Orphan Anagram with Charles Bernstein and The Burning Babe and Other Poems with Jerome Rothenberg. She is coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist's Writings, Theory, and Criticism, with writings by over 100 artists, critics, and poets, published by Duke University Press in 2000. She was the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues from 1986-1996 and is the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online.


The show will be up until December 3

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Sylvia Netzer

Sylvia Netzer is featured in Sculpture Magazine article, Pot People: Recent Figurative Ceramic Sculpture by Cynthia Nadelman.

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On Artists' Health and Safety

A.I.R. Gallery Presents and
The Dumbo Arts Center Hosts
On Artists' Health and Safety  

with Industrial Hygienist Monona Rossol

Thursday December 9th

6pm to 8pm

Monona Rossol, M.S. M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist

Location moved to:
**DUMBO ARTS CENTER**
30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce On Artists' Health and Safety, a lecture event with renowned industrial hygienist, Monona Rossol. Rossol's book, “The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide”, will be available for purchase.  The event, organized by 2010-2011 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Artist Elisabeth Waterston, will be held on December 9th, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm.  Space is limited.  

On Artists’ Health and Safety is a presentation designed to provide artists with clear and unbiased information on the health hazards posed by art material use, as well as ways to protect themselves from these hazards and develop a safer studio practice. Monona Rossol will discuss the dangers faced by artists in the areas of ceramics and sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography, tailoring her discussion to the needs of the artists attending the event.  If you have a specific question or subject that you would like Ms. Rossol to address, please email your request with the heading “Question for Ms. Rossol” before November 25th.
  

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Sam Nernon at Invisible Dog and Juliana Cerqueira at the Convent of Saint Cecilia

Sam Vernon (A.I.R. Fellowship Artist 2009-2011) is participating in What is the Where?, a show of work responding to the relationship between location, identity and perception with NYC as the particular location.  The exhibition will feature 15 emerging artists plus an affordable art Museum Store with the work of Recession Art alumni.

Recession Art is an arts organization devoted to helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving art lovers and collectors of all incomes an ...opportunity to buy original work at affordable prices. This show is a great event for artists looking to connect with possible exhibition opportunities and young people looking to start an art collection in an affordable way.

Invisible Dog
Bergen Street at Smith Street in Brooklyn 
Grand Opening: Saturday November 13th, 6pm to Midnight
November 13 to 21st
Gallery hours will be daily, from 12-9PM

Juliana Cerqueira Leite (A.I.R. Fellowship Artist 2009-2011) is a curator of Physical Center: Brooklyn. A one‐night exhibition, video screening, and performance event at the Convent of Saint Cecilia in Brooklyn, NY; a tactile soirée featuring both local and international artists, performers, and musicians. Physical Center will be a celebration of material existence, and a showcase for emerging talent in the arts.

Physical Center: Brooklyn

November 20, 2010

Exhibition and performances: 6pm‐11pm

Curated by: Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Bryan Norvelle, Alison Wall, Rachel Rosen, and Amanda Schmitt

The Convent of Saint Cecilia is located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York at 21 Monitor Street, between Herbert
and Richardson streets. 

Subway: G to Nassau Avenue or L to Graham Avenue.  

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A.I.R. 9th Biennial

Only a few weeks left to apply for our Biennial - for the chance to be part of a Juried Exhibition! Submit all materials online or download the applications and mail it by 11:59pm, November 20.

The A.I.R. Biennial exhibition series has a strong curatorial story: Cornelia Butler, Anne Ellegood,  Charlotta Kotik, Shamim Momin, Maura Reilly, Lowery Stokes Sims, Elisabeth Sussman and Lilly Wei have curated the previous exhibits.

This year the juror is Alexandra Schwartz (MoMA) who is the Coordinator of Modern Women's project and co-editor of Modern Women: Women Artist and co-curator of Mind and Matter: Alternative abstractions, 1940 to Now at MoMA.

Don't miss that unique opportunity.

More info:
http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=Biennial&pageid=148

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