Art x Women at The Affordable Art Fair

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce "Art x Women" at The Affordable Art Fair NYC Spring 2011

A.I.R. Gallery will be exhibiting at AAF
Thursday May 5 - Sunday May 8
Booth A-2

AAF is located at 7 West 34th Street near 5th Ave.
For hours and directions CLICK HERE

The Affordable Art Fair NYC and A.I.R. Gallery will host Art x Women, a special section of nine galleries exhibiting solely work by women artists. As the first fair to present such a focus, we are extremely excited to launch this project at a time when there is an overwhelming interest in women artists and feminist art. The project will include Women Talk, programming, talks and tours by A.I.R. Gallery Artists and others; A Recent Graduates booth presented by A.I.R. Fellow, Sam Vernon; and Special Installations including a work by A.I.R. Artist, Daria Dorosh and former A.I.R. Fellow, Lauren Simkin Berke.

Participating Galleries

A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY, New York, NY
ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, New Brunswick, NJ
Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, NY
Kris Graves Projects, Brooklyn, NY
SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Special Installations

The Irregular Pattern by artist Lauren Simkin Berke
Big Sal by artist Daria Dorosh
Eat Me by artist Carolyn Clayton
UN_TIT_LED by artist Lizzie De Vita
The Pink Elephant in the Room by artist Mariangeles Soto Diaz
P(n,k)Combinatorics by artist Nancy Cohen

Recent Graduates Booth
The Recent Graduates exhibition Post, curated by Sam Vernon featuring work by women artists that have recently completed their MFA or BFA programs.

Women Talk
Hosted by A.I.R. Gallery

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 6:30PM
Narrative Abstraction Daria Dorosh, Multimedia Artist

FRIDAY, May 6, 6:30PM
Female Photographers and the Fe(male) Gaze
Jeanette May, Photographer

FRIDAY, May 6, 7PM
Works on Paper at Art x Women
Ferris Olin, Co-Director of the Institute of Women & Art, Rutgers, The State University of NJ

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1PM
Women's Galleries & Feminist Art
Susan Bee, Painter

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 4PM
Collecting Work by Women Artists
Marjorie Martay of Art W

SUNDAY, May 8, 1:30PM
Interactions, Working with Digital Media,
Cliché Verre and Printmaking Processes
Nancy Lasar, Printmaker

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Wish You Were Here 10

Dear Artists & Friends of A.I.R. Gallery,

We invite you to participate in our yearly benefit postcard show, Wish You Were Here 10 from June 22 - July 16, 2010. Last year's exhibit had work by over 400 artists including Kiki Smith and Mary Frank. This year we hope you will join us in our mission to provide leadership and community to women in the arts by exhibiting your work in Wish You Were Here 10.

The postcards, made and donated by artists nationwide - both men and women - will be shown in our Gallery III space. Each will be signed, titled and dated and may include a message from the artist. The cards will be labeled and a list of participating artists will be made available to gallery visitors. All postcards will be priced at $45 including New York State sales tax.

To participate:

1. Create your artwork a wall mountable artwork that is 4" x 6"

2. Print on the back of the card:
a. your name
b. the title of the piece
c. the materials used
d. the date of completion

3. You must include your phone number AND email address on the card OR on a separate piece of paper, so that the gallery can contact you regarding your work.

4. Mail or hand-deliver your piece in an envelope by Saturday, June 5th 2011 to:

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street #228
Brooklyn NY 11201

5. Any work that is not sold will be returned to artists who enclose a SASE with their submission. Any unsold work that is not accompanied by a SASE upon submission and is not picked up by December 31, 2011will become the property of A.I.R. Gallery.

This year we will also be accepting diptychs and triptychs in which each part is 4" x 6" in size.

We hope that you will be part of Wish You Were Here 10 and we look forward to seeing you at the opening on special Postcard Show opening on Wednesday, June 22 from 6pm to 8:30pm, for the reception on Thursday June 23 from 6pm to 8:30pm for all three exhibits we will have on view, or for the DUMBO 1st Thursdays Gallery Walk on Thursday, July 7 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.

Sincerely,

A.I.R. Gallery Artists and Staff

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News about our fellow, Kira greene

SURVEYING THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

LGBT Center,  208 W. 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
Wednesday April 27 - Wednesday August 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 27, 6:00 - 7:30pm
This exhibition showcases 20 artists currently living and working in New York City and representing 25 countries of origin. Their work reflects the diversity of the LGBT experience in New York City and around the world. Of particular interest is how the artists' experiences in their country of origin have transmuted as they have become working artists in New York City.

 

Poetical Fire: Three Centuries of Still Lifes continues at Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE until May 7, 2011, and I will be at Lincoln and give a lecture on Tuesday May 3, 5:00 - 7:30pm in the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.  

 

In June, I will be part of two exciting group exhibitions.  First, I will be part of the Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of Art and Wave Hill.  For three decades, the Bronx Museum of the Arts' Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program has helped to demystify the often opaque professional practices of the art world for artists at the beginning of their careers and has introduced the work of these emerging artists to the public.  On June 26, the Bronx Museum will open two exhibitions to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this ground-breaking program, Taking AIM and Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial on view through September 5, 2011.  Here is the Press Release for both exhibitions and the book published for the 30th anniversary. 

 

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Boring Stories

Please Join us for  

Boring Stories  

A handmade book-making workshop
Sunday, May 1st, 2011, 5-8pm
at A.I.R.Gallery
FREE - RSVP is required!

2010-11 A.I.R. Fellow Jiyoon Koo in collaboration with professional book-binder Susan Mills

A.I.R. Gallery and 2010-11 A.I.R. Fellow Jiyoon Koo invite the public to Boring Stories, an workshop and literary event on Sunday, May 1, 2011 from 5-8pm. The event will be limited to 15 people and a donation of $10 is requested to cover the cost of materials. Due to the limited number of participants, advance registration is recommended. Please RSVP to info@airgallery.org to participate and make your donation.  

 

Jiyoon has invited a professional book-binder, Susan Mills, to teach basic book binding. Each participant will be asked to bring to the workshop four sentences that describe special or disappointing events from childhood memories. These will be the basis for a narrative. In its final form, however, each book will be a "blank" book because the conclusion or climax will be missing and the point of the story will be absent, thus creating a void. Attendees will bind their own books, which they will take home with them. In addition, all stories will be bound into a single volume, a copy of which will be given to each participant; one copy will be left in the gallery space.

For a full press release please click HERE.

For more information about Susan Mills, please click HERE. 

*The artist will email individually the 15 people who RSVP for the event to give more information about the workshop.

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We love Japan and Japan loves US

Last saturday A.I.R. housed the event "We love Japan and Japan loves US", a performances and crafts market organized by Ari Tabei to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Japan. As well as delicious food that was donated by local businesses and individuals and handmade bags and bracelets, there were also three performances by respectively Katsura Okada, Ari Tabei and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow. For those who could not be there with us saturday but who would like to get a taste of the performances, we have put a short video of all three performances below.

Katsura Okada, one of A.I.R. Gallery's national members


Ari Tabei, a former A.I.R. fellowship artist


And Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

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...better to travel than to arrive...

Leila Daw, an alumni of A.I.R. Gallery, has a show coming up at Mercy Gallery "...better to travel than to arrive...". A show about mapping, as the artist explains;

“Mapping, as concept and as process, is the underlying content of my work. Mapping is a way of representing the convergence of place and movement, a means of imposing human ideas over the contours of the natural world, a system of filters through which we see the landscape, a process by which we attempt to make sense of mixed cultural and spatial nonsense. My structures, installations, paintings, and drawings map (in some form or other) the course of disasters, travels, myths, confusions, ruminations, stasis, and change.”
— Leila Daw

The opening reception is Tuesday, May 3, 6:45-8:45 pm. The exhibition will be there untill June 11, 2011.

The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Gallery
Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School
Windsor, Connecticut 06095

Gallery hours: Monday to Friday, 11.00 am. - 4:00pm. 
Sunday, 1:00 - 4:00 pm.
Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7:30-9:00 pm.

For more information please call 860.687.6030 or go to www.mercygallery.org.

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Nancy Storrow talks about A.I.R. Gallery

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Feminist Fete

The Rutgers Institute for Women and Art organizes a Feminist Fete, an afternoon of
art, performances, amuse-bouche and libation

Sunday, June 5, 2011
3 - 6 pm

In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition "Feminist Masked Avengers: 30 Early Guerrilla Girls' posters. Recent Work by Guerrilla Girls, Guerrilla Girls BroadBand, Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

In 1985, a bunch of in-your-face posters went up on the streets of New York and all hell broke loose. The Guerrilla Girls were born. Over a hundred posters, actions, books and billboards followed about art, art history, politics, film, theatre, social issues, popular culture and corruption in the art world. Now 26 years later, this exhibition will feature early Guerrilla Girls posters, including a set donated by founding member, Liubov Popova, to the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists at Rutgers University Libraries, along with recent work of all the Girls. For information about the Girls, visit their websites:
www.guerrillagirls.com
http://ggbb.org
www.guerrillagirlsontour.com

June 1 - July 18, 2011
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries hours: Tues. - Fri., 10am - 3pm
Weekends by appointment.

To make reservations for the Feminist Fete
please call 732/932-3726 with your credit card.
For more information please call or email womenart@rci.rutgers.edu or go to http://iwa.rutgers.edu
Complimentary event parking available

Photo credit: The Guerrilla Girls, 1996, © Lois Greenfield

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5 art stars you need to know

Emily Roydson is the curator of our new open call “Illegitimate and Herstorical”, which will be announced soon, and she was just named one of “5 art stars you need to know” by Paddy Johnson (who was a juror for the 2011-12 fellowship) in the L magazine.

#2 EMILY ROYSDON

Artist and writer Emily Roysdon is on fire. Over the course of the last three years she's been included in 2010's Whitney Biennial, Greater New York at MoMA PS1, and The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at The New Museum. She curated the exhibition Ecstatic Resistance at X Initiative in December 2009, garnering a rave review from the Times' Holland Cotter, and co-founded the feminist genderqueer artist collective LTTR (Lesbians to the Rescue) with Ginger Brooks Takahashi and K8 Hardy, in 2001. She has her first solo show in New York, titled Positions, at Art in General through May 7.

It's an impressive record of success, especially given that Roysdon lacks the dedicated promotional team a gallery would offer. That's a testament to the harsh reality of New York—shows are easy to come by, but gallery representation is a rarity—but we predict the commercial tide will soon turn for Roysdon. The power of her work and her growing institutional accreditation suggest as much.

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To read the entire article click here.

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Nancy Storrow talks about Bare Ground

Michael Dorsch talking with Nancy Storrow about her exhibition of pastels and sculptures, entitled "Bare Ground", which is up at A.I.R. Gallery.

Bare Ground refers to both a beginning and an ending. Starting with the bare ground as an open place of discovery, Storrow works intuitively, arranging and connecting simple lines of different weights in a series of abstract drawing that evoke elements of nature.

The drawings are direct, gestural, and dense; the color is balanced and particular. Storrow uses pastels and erasers to mark, wipe, cover, smudge and layer her drawings. Her visual language includes small shifts in line, residual images, an occasional dissonance of color, and intensely worked areas contrasted with translucent overlays of repeated forms. The concrete sculptures with imbedded gravel appear as organic forms or found objects.

Bare Ground is a continuation of Storrow’s on-going, intimate conversation with nature, revealing a process that evokes the dynamic forces of the natural world.

For more information or other images go to www.nancystorrow.net or http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=834.

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Please join us for the Welcome Party for the 2011-12 A.I.R. Fellowship Recipients!

At A.I.R. Gallery, Thursday, April 21st, from 6pm to 7:30pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Aimee Burg, Annie Ewaskio, Bang Geul Han, Einat Imber, Katherine Tzu-lan Mann, and Regine Romain will briefly present their work. Light refreshments will be served.

Come welcome the new A.I.R. Fellows into the greater A.I.R. Community!

The A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women Artists was established in 1993 and has helped launch the careers of over 40 women artists since it's inception. Each year the program offers six women artists the opportunity to have their first solo exhibit or their first solo exhibit in 10 years. Each fellow advances her career with opportunities provided by A.I.R. Gallery, that include a studio visit from an art professional, 18 months of professional development, and mentoring with the A.I.R. Gallery artists and staff. A.I.R. Gallery looks forward to the dynamic and diverse exhibitions of the Fellowship Artists, presenting paintings, mixed media installation, photography, and sculpture.

For a full press release with bios of each of the 2011-12 Fellows, please click HERE.

GALLERY HOURS: Wed-Sun, 11AM - 6PM
111 Front St, #228, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY, 11201

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact gallery director Kat Griefen
At 212.255.6651 or info@airgallery.org or visit www.airgallery.org

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Kathy Dolgy Ludwig has two shows opening

Former A.I.R. Fellow and Alumnae Artist, Kathy Dolgy Ludwig, has two shows opening in New York and Toronto.

_CentralParkStory_ -- The artist again honors Immigrant Heritage Week with
a painting project sharing stories with New Yorkers in places highlighting
the experiences and accomplishments of Immigrants. This annual
celebration, established by the mayor in 2004, has been the focus of yearly
projects by the Brooklyn watercolor painter. Sponsored by A.I.R. Gallery.

CentralParkStory
April 11-17
Rain Or Shine, throughout Central Park
11am to 5pm

_PaintingFlowerLanguage_ -- The artist creates a language of patterning
inspired by the life within blossoms. These watercolors made in New York,
London, and Toronto, have been featured in publications such as the New
York Times, New York Daily News, amNewYork, the LA Times, London Saatchi
Editorial, La Repubblica, the Toronto Sun, Globe, and Toronto Star.

PaintingFlowerLanguage
April 4-July 10
Pearl Gallery
Toronto

Concurrently, Katherine has a painting on exhibit at the New York National
Arts Club, and a solo year long exhibit at the US Pentagon in Washington.

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Ain't I a woman

Race in the feminist movement

GET SMART WITH AIN’T I A WOMAN: WOMEN OF COLOR SPEAK ON ACTIVISM

Long after Sojourner Truth pondered the question – “Aint I A Woman?” we continue to face a white supremacist culture that undermines women of color, young women, undocumented immigrants, and the LGBTQ community. We’re convening this panel to ignite a discourse about the experiences of women of color in the feminist movement and beyond. On this night, six outstanding feminists and activists will go head-to-head to discuss race in the feminist movement today.

We know that the movements to eradicate racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and sexism are inextricably connected. We reject the silencing and subjugation of women of color and aim to create a safe and courageous space to raise our voices, confront tensions, celebrate our triumphs, create collective solutions and share our stories. Through this sharing, we can create a united front so that, instead of surviving through silence, there can be a dialogue on how to battle institutionalized oppression.

Speaking our truth is crucial to our survival. By gathering together and learning from our shared and individual tales of love and struggle, we will each emerge with new perspectives that will enable us to engender the change we envision for the world.

In the words of bell hooks, “There can be no feminist revolution without an end to racism, classism, ageism…"

Music by DJ Lobotomy Copter throughout the night,http://on.fb.me/gRnBsN
We encourage live tweeting during the event using the hastag, #AIAW

Organized by Morgane Richardson in collaboratoin with Jamia Wilson, Shelby Knox and Ileana Jimenez.

SPEAKERS:

Round One: Latoya Peterson, Founder of Racialicious
Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Journalist
Moderator: Lena Chen

Round Two: Lori Adelman, Program Associate at International Women’s Health Coalition
Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, Reproductive Rights Activist
Moderator: Shelby Knox

Round Three: Jessie Daniels, PhD, Author and Sociology Professor at Hunter College
Anna Holmes, Jezebel Founding Editor
Moderator: Jamia Wilson

$10 Suggested Donation (but no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

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Stephanie Lempert: Reconstructed Reliquaries

Opening Reception Tonight: Thursday, April 7, 6 - 8 p.m.

In "Reconstructed Reliquaries," Stephanie Lempert’s new body of work, the artist continues
her exploration into methods of communication and more narrowly with language. Lempert
explores the intertwined nature of cherished mementos and the childhood reminiscences
that make them precious. The Artist consolidates complex and multifaceted family narratives
held in the memory of the real life storytellers and connects them to a single inanimate object
found in our workaday world. For this project, Lempert interviewed close to 100 persons from
all walks of life, exploring the rationale behind the reasons certain memories stay with us and
why we form attachments to particular objects.

Known primarily as a photographer and video artist, Lempert has taken the next logical step
in her studio practice by incorporating three-dimensional works to consolidate her concepts.
Traditional sculpture, marble or wood, is achieved by a reductive process, removing a thin
layer at a time to obtain the precise form the artist has envisioned. In contrast, Lempert
creates her sculptures by adding on thin layer by thin layer, creating a work of art that
technologically would not be possible just a few years ago. Using a cutting edge, three-dimensional
stereoscopic printing process, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), a rapid prototyping process,
Lempert is able to use the actual handwriting of the storytellers to create the sculpture itself;
the subjects’ own words make their memories tangible objects. Infusing these icons with
human emotions, Lempert weaves stories, literally and figuratively reconstructing memories
in such a way as to create a repository for the next generation’s hopes and dreams; the
sculpture she has created becomes the touchstones of the very words they embrace.

For further information please visit www.ClaireOliver.com
or contact the gallery at 212.929.5949

Claire Oliver | 513 West 26th Street | New York , NY 10001

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Studio Visit Lottery

Dear New York City Artists,

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to invite you to participate in our 1st Studio Visit Lottery!

Based on A.I.R. Gallery’s “One on One” sessions from the 1980s, the Studio Visit Lottery provides an opportunity for you, the artists, to enter to receive a personal one-on-one studio visit with a curator, critic, or gallery director. All artists in New York City are encouraged to apply.

The deadline for entry is June 10, 2011.

A.I.R. has selected top curators, critics and gallery directors involved in exciting projects here in New York City to meet with you, the artist, in your working / studio space. The 45-minute visit is designed not only to facilitate dialogue among art professionals and local artists, but also to provide artists with personal attention and beneficial feedback. In addition, the three artists selected by lottery for visits are offered a free professional development workshop with A.I.R. Gallery Director, Kat Griefen on “Making the Most of a Studio Visit.”

Studio Visitors:
Dorian Bergen, Gallery Owner/Director, ACA Galleries
Robert C. Morgan, Art Critic & Art Historian
Charlotta Kotik, Independent Curator

To enter the lottery to receive a personal 45-minute studio visit, please pay $10.00 (via telephone (212 255 6651) online form (CLICK HERE), or mail (CLICK TO DOWLOAD PRINTABLE ENTRY FORM) to A.I.R. Gallery. Artists will be selected via a random lottery on Wednesday, June 22 and will be notified by email. All proceeds after payments to the art professionals will benefit A.I.R. Gallery and its mission to advance the status of women in the arts.

CLICK HERE to read the bios of the studio visitors or to apply online.

Sincerely,
A.I.R. Gallery Artists & Staff

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Two Person Show, 'Awakening'

Our former fellowship artist Keun Young Park is opening a solo show "Two Person Show, 'Awakening'" on the 14th of April, next Thursday at Tria Gallery in Chelsea, NY. She is showing new pieces of her 'Dream Series'.

www.keunyoungpark.com

Tria Gallery
The Suchman•Bart•Metheny Gallery
531 West 25th Street, GF 5
New York, NY 10001
212.695.0021
www.triagallerynyc.com
info@triagallerynyc.com

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A.I.R. Gallery and Sam Vernon host Among Women

A program of readings by young women writers Sunday, April 10, 2011, 4-6pm.

BROOKLYN, NY March 2011 – A.I.R. Gallery and 2010‐11 A.I.R. Fellowship Artist and Emma Bee Bernstein Fellow Sam Vernon invite the public to Among Women, an upcoming public program and literary event on Sunday, April 10, 2011 from 4‐6pm. Organized by Vernon, the program is held in conjunction with her first solo exhibition Think On It—Then Lay It Down For Good on view at A.I.R. Gallery March 30 – April 23, 2011. The event is open to the public free of charge.

For Among Women, Vernon has invited a group of emerging young women writers to read their new and unpublished work, spanning short stories, poetry and essays. These individuals in turn have invited a young woman writer of their choice to present and complete an evenings’ roster of readers. The program features writers Lauren Belski, Naima Fine Iles, Pamela Jackson, Christine Rath Selhi, Feliz Soloman and Heather Trobe. Attendees are also encouraged to bring a piece of fiction from their personal collection to the event for a fun, informal literary exchange following the readings!

http://www.airgallery.org/images/AmongWomen_PR.pdf

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Textile artist Jean M. Judd of Cushing, Wisconsin has been juried into the 2011 Gateway to Imagination National Juried Art Competition to be held at the Farmington Museum at Gateway Park in Farmington, New Mexico. Her artwork, Twirling Leaves #2, is one of the artworks selected for the exhibit. The exhibition will feature 95 artworks selected from 319 submissions.
The juror for this exhibition is painter JD Challenger of Taos, New Mexico. Mr. Challenger specializes in Native American artwork which touches on the history and significance of many ceremonies of the American Indian and the spirituality of their deeply held beliefs. He uses oils, acrylics, and mixed media in his work. More information about JD can be seen here at http://www.jdchallenger.com/aboutJD.html .
The exhibition opens on May 6, 2011. An artist reception and awards presentation is on May 14, 2011 from 7 to 9 pm with a juror lecture just prior to the reception. The exhibition closes on July 9, 2011. The address of the facility is the Farmington Museum at Gateway Park, 3041 East Main Street, Farmington, New Mexico 87402. Visit the Farmington Museum web site http://www.farmingtonmuseum.org for more information about the exhibition or call 505-599-1169.

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Colored Cactus Opening- April 21st!

Aimée Burg is our fellow artist for 2011-2012 and together with Tamar Ettun she curated the new show called "Colored Cactus".

For the Colored Cactus show, five Israeli artists are paired with five American artists to work with in collaboration on site-specific pieces for the gallery. Working on a new project together and in the same space invites more interaction between the artists, so the pairs can start work in the gallery up to a month in advance. Individual work rituals will affect each other, and produce an active dialogue of theory, style, and work. Besides bringing different cultural contexts, the artists bring different assumptions about access and working space. (Simply being from a nation with a smaller population than New York City gives Israeli artists very different expectations about space, materials, audience, etc.) The situation of working for a month in the space makes it akin to a residency--the gallery can be treated like studio space on a scale that neither group has access to. The exchange culminates in an opening and public exhibit of large-scale installations.

The process is not knowing how it will end- for us to be open to influences from each other and to work and grow from the conversations we have.

The opening is on Thursday, April 21st and the show is up though May 21st.

Industry City
220 36th Street
Brooklyn, NY.

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Join us for Arttable Gala honoring A.I.R. Gallery

Please join us for ArtTable’s 30th Anniversary Gala, honoring 30 influential women in the field of visual arts – Including Daria Dorosh of A.I.R. Gallery!

Special Invitation | Individual Artist’s Ticket | $275

ArtTable's 30th Anniversary celebration weekend honors the transformative work of leading women in the visual arts. The anniversary events are an opportunity to weave together the threads of many individual stories of professional accomplishment into a comprehensive narrative of leadership. Throughout the Anniversary Weekend we will address the opportunities, changes, and challenges for arts professionals at all stages of career and highlight our commitment to the field by creating a forum for the exchange of ideas of general interest to emerging and established professionals.

Gala Benefit at MoMA | 11 West 53rd Street | April 16 | 7:30pm
Join us as we celebrate thirty years of advancing women's leadership in the visual arts! This greatly anticipated celebration will profile women's leadership by recognizing 30 influential women in various aspects of the field of visual arts and will recognize artists whose contributions to the field have impact beyond traditional studio practice. ArtTable's Artist Honors will allow us to celebrate the ways that many leaders in the arts draw inspiration from their studio practice to transform the field, its institutions and its structures. Festive attire, all are welcome. Co-chaired by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Agnes Gund.

Schedule:
7:30pm Honors Program | Titus Theater
8:30pm Dinner Served | Passed courses and various culinary stations | Open Bar | Open Seating
Throughout the Evening | Installation and benefit raffle of Sexy Barn, a scent by Jenny Holzer with Roger Schmid and Frank Voelkl | ArtTable annual awards viewing including works by Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono, and Jenny Holzer | Tribute performance by Imani Uzuri | and more!

We invite you to join the celebration!

For more information, and to purchase tickets, please click HERE

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damali abrams: Film Screening at Rush Arts Gallery

damali abrams has been invited to co-host
A Feminist Tea Party

The topic of discussion will be
Feminism & Pop Music

Tuesday April 12, 2011
2-4 pm
The NYFA Gallery
New York Foundation for the Arts
20 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

afeministteaparty.wordpress.com

Baby It Couldn't Have Been You That I Feared
a short film by damali abrams



Thursday April 14, 2011
6-8 pm
Rush Arts Gallery
526 W 26th St # 311
between 10th & 11th Ave.
New York, NY 10001-5521

Screening will be followed by Q & A and discussion.

Directions: C or E train to 23rd St.

damali abrams is a Guyanese-American video & performance artist who lives and works in NYC. She received her BA at New York University and her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. damali was a 2009-10 A.I.R. Gallery fellowship recipient. Her ongoing video-performance project, Self-Help TV, has been viewed in New York, Philadelphia, Montpelier, Albuquerque and Miami, and is now a weekly television series on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Her work has been shown at MoCADA, A.I.R. Gallery, JCAL, BRIC Rotunda Gallery and NY Studio Gallery. Her most recent work is Autobiography of a Year II, documenting each day of 2011 with video diaries that are posted online at damaliabrams.blogspot.com & youtube.com/damaliabrams

damaliabrams.com

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Barbara Siegel in "Earthwork" at Central Booking Gallery

Our NYC member Barbara Siegel has five installations in a new show, the art in this exhibition is based on the life and work of mineralogist Clifford Frondel, "Earthwork", at Central Booking Gallery, 111 Front Street, gallery 210, Dumbo. April 14-June 12. .
The opening reception is Thursday, April 14, 6-8PM.

Her essay "Rock Stars: Art and Mineralogy" appears in the April issue of Central Booking Magazine.

Hope you will have a chance to see the show.

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Sam Vernon in Invisible Dog

One of A.I.R. fellows is taking part of a collective exhibition in Invisible Dog.  Also, she is currently in A.I.R. Gallery III.  Enjoy.

"Art & Lies"

April 1-14, 2011
Opening Party: April 1, 6PM - 9PM
Localization: Invisible Dog (51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn) 

"There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies." 
 - Jeanette Winterson

Press release.

Brooklyn, NY - Curated by Risa Shoup, Art & Lies features a diverse collection of work focusing on issues that have figured prominently in her life: gender, environment, time, alienation and isolation.  Shoup hopes to provoke the audience to consider the creative role of the curator when viewing work that responds to themes that have been so crucial in the shaping of her life's trajectory.  An Opening Party for Art & Lies will take place on Friday, April 1 from 6PM to 9PM at the Invisible Dog Art Center and the exhibition will be on view from April 1 through April 14, 2011.

The group show features installations, photography, sculpture, video, and collage by six artists: Ryan Frank, R. Justin Stewart, Danielle Durchslag, Samantha Vernon, Morgan Levy, and Kerry Downey.

"Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring", an installation by Ryan Frank, portrays a series of figurative sculptures representing one woman's struggle with how to present her gender and her transformation from femme to butch.  Presented in its NYC debut, is R. Justin Stewart's "2AM to 2PM", a 3-D sculptural map of the Minneapolis Bus System. "2AM to 2PM" has previously traveled to the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI, the Mesa Art Center in Mesa, AZ and the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO. Collages by Danielle Durchslag and photographs by Morgan Levy will be the only 2-D, wall-mounted work in the show.  Durchslag's portraits of infants collaged from different types of paper depict distress in childhood, while Levy's large-format composite photographs portray the isolation of the wilderness in Iceland.  Kerry Downey's videos address alienation with dark wit, and Samantha Vernon's work recalls the disparate influences of Kara Walker and Edward Gorey to create a truly haunting environmental installation about violence, race and psychic trauma.

An Artist Talkback will be held on the afternoon of Sunday, April 10. Two Film Nights, "Here and There" and "Do Me" will feature new video work about the politics of place and gender respectively on Wednesday, April 6 from 7PM-9PM and Wednesday, April 13 from 7PM-9PM. Additionally, an event to celebrate Jacob Krupnick's feature-length music video for Girl Talk's newest album, "Girl Walk // All Day" will be presented at the gallery during the exhibition. Date to be announced.

Curator Risa Shoup is an Independent Curator and Development Consultant.  Currently she is the Residency Manager of the BRIC House Fireworks Residency Program, a collaborative artists' residency at BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn and the development consultant for The Wassaic Project.  She has spoken about nontraditional artspaces at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, NYU and the CUNY Graduate Center, and at Harvard University.  This will be Shoup's second show at the Invisible Dog Art Center.  An exhibition of new, site-specific installation work co-curated by Shoup and Ryan Frank will open at the Old Hotel, as part of the The Wassaic Project's summer exhibition program on July 9, 2011.

The Invisible Dog Art Center is located on 51 Bergen Street between Smith and Court streets, accessible through the Bergen F/G stops. Gallery hours during Art & Lies will be noon to 7 pm, Wednesday through Sunday, from April 1-14.

Public Programs

Art &Lies Artist Talkback

Sunday, April 10

"Here and There" - film night featuring new video work about the politics of place

Wednesday, April 6 from 7PM-9PM

"Do Me" - film night featuring new video work about the politics of gender

Wednesday, April 13 from 7PM-9PM

Additionally, an event to celebrate Jacob Krupnick's feature-length music video for Girl Talk's newest album, "Girl Walk // All Day" will be presented at the gallery during the exhibition. Date to be announced.

Curator Risa Shoup is an Independent Curator and Development Consultant.  Currently she is the Residency Manager of the BRIC House Fireworks Residency Program, a collaborative artists' residency at BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn and the development consultant for The Wassaic Project.  She has spoken about nontraditional artspaces at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, NYU and the CUNY Graduate Center, and at Harvard University.  This will be Shoup's second show at the Invisible Dog Art Center.  An exhibition of new, site-specific installation work co-curated by Shoup and Ryan Frank will open at the Old Hotel, as part of the The Wassaic Project's summer exhibition program on July 9, 2011.

 

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Sari Dienes Retrospective

One of our founder and member is having a retrospective in GAGA.

Sari Dienes Retrospective

My life is an art. I have given it a form that I may understand what is happening in the world.

April 16 - May 15, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16^th- 6 to 8 PM

Closing reception: Saturday, May 14, 7-9 pm- Music by the Son of Lion 

Throughout her career, which spanned six decades, Sari Dienes had a passion for transforming the found object into her art. A consummate experimenter who worked in a variety of mediums, Dienes was best known for her pastel and charcoal rubbings of cityscapes and Native American petroglyphs of the 1950's.

By the time of the Museum of Modern Art's 1961 "Art of Assemblage " show, in which she was prominently featured, she was perhaps at the height of her career. This exhibition will include selections from her early work in the 1930's and 40's of surreal figurative and abstract paintings and drawings and rubbings and assemblages of the 1950's through the 80's.

"Sari Dienes has often been compared to artists like Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Joseph Cornell, and those who have written about her work have often expressed dismay that she has never been the object of a similar level of acclaim even though the neo-Dada precursors of Pop Art, as well as many others, readily admit their indebtedness to her work."(Henry Martin)  In an interview from the late 1970s, Jasper Johns was asked if Robert Rauschenberg had been a significant influence on his early years, Johns said, "No, it was Sari Dienes."

Curated by Joan Harmon and James Tyler

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00- 5:00PM or by appointment

Location and Contact Information:

GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, 55 W. Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West Haverstraw, Rockland County. 

For directions and additional information, visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or email gaga@garnervillearts.com.  

Or for more information on Sari's work contact: www.saridienes.org 

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Conversations

Dear Friends,

Nancy Azara's show is coming up in R&F Gallery.

"Conversations"

The Gallery at R&F is pleased to present ‘Conversations’, an exhibition of works by eight painters and sculptors who also work on paper.  The show will run from April 2nd through May 12th, 2011.  There will be an opening reception for the artists and gallery talk on Saturday, April 2nd, from 5 to 7 p.m.  There will also be a gallery closing, on Saturday, May 14 from 2-4 pm, where the artists will be on hand to have conversations with visitors.

Co-curated by Joanne Mattera and Laura Moriarty, ‘Conversations’ is a group exhibition that looks at the work on paper of artists who are primarily known for their paintings or sculpture.  By showing these different mediums together, ‘Conversations’ presents a visual dialog between the artists’ two mediums, vis a vis materials, dimensions, proportions, palette and content; as well as a conversation among the participating artists on these same issues. 

The eight artists include Steven Alexander, Nancy Azara, Grace DeGennaro, Pam Farrell, Lorrie Fredette, George Mason, Joanne Mattera and Laura Moriarty. 

Located at 84 Ten Broeck Ave, in midtown Kingston, NY gallery hours are Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm.  For further information, call (845) 331-3112.

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