Pillow pageant film screening

Pillow culture presents a film screening featuring A.I.R. artists Daria Dorosh and Barbara Siegel among others. The films are one minute short films of artist-made pillows.

You are welcome to join them on their Screening Party June 3rd, 7-9pm, and meet the filmmakers and artists.

The party will take place at 117 Grattan Street #201, Brooklyn.

For more information please check their website at http://www.pillowculture.com/

Read More

Book Party for Attack of the Difficult Poems

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the poetry waters ....

the New York launch of

Attack of the Difficult Poems
Essays and Inventions
University of Chicago Press

Saturday, June 11, 2011
4-6pm
A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street #228
Dumbo, Brooklyn
directions

short reading from the book at 5pm

photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald

Read More

Studio visit Simone Meltesen

Our executive assistant Simone Meltesen is participating in the Northside Open Studios, she is welcoming you into her studio Saturday, June 18th, noon - 6pm. You get a chance to see what Simone has been working on in the last six months and you can talk to the artist about her art.

Her studio is located in the Leviton Building at 250 Greenpoint Avenue, studio #11 (4th Floor), between Newel and Jewel streets. It's a walk-up, so come prepared to climb some stairs. Closest subway is the G to Greenpoint - exit at greenpoint ave, and then walk downhill-ish towards McGuiness boulevard. Cross McGuiness and the Leviton building will be on your right.

To go to Simone's info page on the Northside Open Studios website click HERE. And to see other participants click HERE.

http://simonemeltesen.com/home.html

Read More

Studio visit Simone Meltesen

Our executive assistant Simone Meltesen is participating in the Northside Open Studios, she will welcome you in her studio from noon to 6pm on Saturday, June 18th.
You get a chance to see what Simone has been working on in the last six months.

Her studio is located in the Leviton Building at 250 Greenpoint Avenue, studio #11 (4th Floor), between Newel and Jewel streets. It's a walk-up, so come prepared to climb some stairs. Closest subway is the G to Greenpoint - exit at greenpoint ave, and then walk downhill-ish towards McGuiness boulevard. Cross McGuiness and the Leviton building will be on your right.

Click here to go to Simone's info page on the Northside Open Studios website.
Here for other participants.

Read More

NANCY AZARA: Rubbings, Tracings & Carvings

Nancy Azara, an alumnae member of A.I.R. Gallery, has a solo exhibition coming up June 3rd. The show is called "Nancy Azara: Rubbings, Tracings & Carvings";

Rubbings, tracings and carvings are ancient forms of art making that capture the "essence" or "spirit" of an object, record an impression or a moment in time and often act as a metaphor for "self" in the context of her place in the world and the relationship of that place with regard to other living things.

The opening reception will be June 3rd, 6-9pm. There will be a special dance performance by Moving Mantras - 8pm.
The show will stay up until June 26th.

The Gaga Arts Center
55 Railroad Avenue
Garnerville, NY 10923

For more information about the show please click HERE.

http://www.nancyazara.com

Read More

No nonessential conversations below 10,000 feet

Ceres Gallery presents "No nonessential conversations below 10,000 feet", featuring work from Kazuko Miyamoto, an early A.I.R. Gallery artist.

http://www.ceresgallery.org/

Read More

Look at you 05

"Look at you 05" is the title of an interesting project overseas we heard about, Dutch artist Sara Vrugt designed a 110 yard long tapestry, where she and over 267 visitors did the embroidery. Vrugt wanted to create a place where people would come and feel welcome, experience calmness and in-explicitly bond with each other.

The design consists of two interweaving structures, at one end portraits of girls - found on facebook - are shown, these faces are flowing over to an abstract version of the retina of the human eye. In this way being viewed from the outside and looking from the inside out are forming a relationship. Transparent circles decreasing in size are incorporated in the tapestry forming tunnels, a telescopic window effect.
The finished tapestry is hung in a spiral form for visitors to walk into and look at the tapestry and through the circles to each other. The more you walk into the spiral the denser the embroidered patterns become, reducing transparency and your expectations to a minimum.

On the bottom of the work there is a line with portraits and names of every person who worked with Vrugt on this project.

The installation will be on show at:

June 6 - 27
Atrium
Spui 70
2511 BT The Hague, Netherlands

June 29 - July 15
Nutshuis
Riviervismarkt 5
2513 AM The Hague, Netherlands

For more images of this project please go to http://www.vrugt.com/.

About Sara Vrugt
Vrugt uses clothing as a part of autonomous language, her work is touching both fashion design and visual arts. She tries to find and expand the limits of her field by using textile as her medium and the human body as her instrument, involving the community in her projects. She is constantly contemplating her surroundings and the society in her work.

Read More

Opening new shows

A.I.R. Gallery is inviting you to the opening of our new shows; "Recalculating: New Paintings" by Susan Bee, Stephanie Bernheim's "Palm Project" and "New Traditions in Beauty Queens", a collaboration between Senzeni Marasela and Louise McCagg.

The opening reception will take place Thursday May 26, 6-8pm. The shows will be up between May 25th and June 19th, we are happy to welcome you to see the exhibitions.

For more information please visit our website at www.airgallery.org

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
212 255 6651

Read More

Support Shannon Plumb

Fantastic video and performance artist, Shannon Plumb, will be launching a new project in DUMBO in Fall 2011.

"I want to make my videos accessible to people on the street. I would like to fill 10 windows with 10 videos of my performances. I will play all the characters. The action in the video will be shaped by the neighborhood and the architecture and by the dwellers of that building. There might be a woman in a burqua cooling herself by a fan, or a large office man navigating in a tiny space, or a mother with two kids trying to get them out of the house. I hope it will surprise people going about they're everyday lives. I hope it gives them something to take away- maybe a smile and an experience.

I would like to work with landlords who have empty spaces and are interested in offering a new venue for video art.

To show these videos to the public i will put a screen on the window in a city building and use rear projection to throw the images onto the window. People passing by will see the video from the sidewalk.

The money raised through this campaign will be used to rent projectors."

You can see samples of her films and videos at shannonplumb.com.

Help her realising this project! Go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/799247800/the-window-series?ref=email.

Read More

Invitation to open studio

Juliana Cerqueira Leite writes:

"For those in New York and surrounding areas it would be a pleasure to welcome you at my studio on 1717 Troutman Street, in Bushwick, Brooklyn for some beers to celebrate the 2011 Bushwick Open Studios. My studio-mates and I will be there to receive you between the 2nd and 5th of June, and you can check out the beginning stages of a new work I am making for my solo show coming up this September 7th at the A.I.R. Gallery in Dumbo. This show will conclude my fellowship with the gallery and officially be my first solo show in NY.

It's been a great 2011 so far with Physical Center (www.physicalcenter.org), group shows in Lithuania, California, and the Mexico Art Fair with Trolley. It's about time for a little catch up, the Bushwick Open Studios are coming up and there's lots of new plans for 2012.

If you have plans to be in Morrocco in February 2012 then please join me for some tea in Marrakesh where I'll be taking part in the Arts in Marrakesh Biennial. Pretty excited about making a new site-specific work for this show at the Badi Palace. Then for April and May I'll be upstate in New York at Utica for a funded two-month residency at Sculpture Space, focusing on making new works with access to some serious heavy lifting machinery and technical support. Time to get big."

Read More

A.I.R. Artist Katherine Dolgy Ludwig featured in Brooklyn Daily Eagle

A.I.R. Alumnae Artist Katherine Dolgy Ludwig was featured in an article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. And they mentioned A.I.R. Gallery too! Enjoy:
Brooklyn Painter Brightens Her Palette At Immigrant Heritage Week

Read More

!Women Art Revolution: a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.

!W.A.R. will premiere in theaters on June 1 at the IFC Center in New York, New York.

Read More

Ann Pachner: Burning Wood Falling Through Endless Night

Ann Pachner's show Burning Wood Falling Through Endless Night will only be up until this Saturday (May 21). If you missed it, please enjoy this video of Ann's sculptures and two of her pieces Arc and For Kali.

Read More

All Jokes Aside

An exhibition featuring work by our new fellowship artist Aimèe Burg, with an opening day performance by former fellow Aricoco.

Opening reception May 28, 2-5pm. (Raindate: May 29, 2-5pm)

Art Lot
206 Columbia Street at Sackett
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Read More

Privacy Please!

Call for Entries: Privacy Please!, a juried exhibition open to all self-identified women artists.

Guest curated by Erin Riley-Lopez,Independent Curator and former Associate Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Deadline: July 15th 2011, midnight online

Click HERE to apply online.

Exhibition Description & Criteria:
The curators seek works for a juried exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York by women artists who examine beauty and grooming rituals in their artwork. Privacy Please! will explore how women artists express these private rituals in their work. In the 1970's, during the second wave of the modern feminist movement, female scholars questioned notions of beauty and how its perception was often linked to social standards. The feminist thinker Una Stannard considered the role the media plays in women's desire to be beautiful. She writes in The Mask of Beauty, that "social conditioning impels women to don a disguise." Where are we today, forty years later?

Privacy Please! will include artwork in any medium. Some of the questions the exhibition will pose include how women artists are currently dealing with notions of beauty, how grooming rituals change as women age, how they define who we are, and particularly how these ideas get translated into a work of art.

A.I.R. welcomes an open interpretation of the theme.

Exhibition Schedule: November 2-26, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3, 2011

Eligibility Requirements: Open to all self-identified women artists world wide. Any original work of art in any medium may be submitted that speaks to the issues laid out in the Exhibition Description and Exhibition Criteria outlined above. Work chosen will be selected from images submitted. Please only submit work related to our theme. If chosen, work needs to be shipped at the artist’s own expense or hand-delivered to the gallery by October 27, 2011. Artwork must be picked up from the gallery by December 4, 2011. Artists are responsible for shipping or delivering their artwork BOTH to the gallery and FROM the gallery at their own expense. The gallery does not cover costs of shipping including the return of unsold artwork.

You will find more information on our website www.airgallery.org.

NOTE: A.I.R. Gallery will be closed for the summer from July 17th 2011 - September 7th 2011. For questions about your application please contact:

privacyplease2011@gmail.com

Read More

Press about 'Women x Arts'

A.i.R. Gallery was a participant of the NY Affordable Art Fair this year and we organized a Women x Arts section, where nine gallery's brought only women artists.
There was some press about the fair and the Women x Arts section in particular, so for those of you who are interested we have listed them below.

The examiner:

http://www.examiner.com/events-in-new-york/affordable-art-fair-coming-to-nyc-may-5-may-8th

Socially Superlative:

http://sociallysuperlative.com/2011/05/02/10th-annual-spring-affordable-art-fair/

DNA Info.com:

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110505/midtown/2011-affordable-art-fair-spotlights-women-artists

Shesheme.com:

http://shesheme.com/events.htm

The Fashion Spot:

http://www.thefashionspot.com/runway-news/news/167171-the-affordable-art-fair-comes-to-new-york-city

And Beautynews NYC:

http://www.beautynewsnyc.com/city-pulse/the-affordable-art-fair/

In addition to referring to the Women x Arts section, some of them also write about Sam Vernon, who curated the Recent Graduate booth and is an A.I.R. Fellowship artist.

Read More

Light and Color +

This is the title of the new solo exhibition of our NY member Jisoo Lee at the Earlville Opera House.

"My work is about light and color," the Korean-Born, New York-based artist Jisoo Lee responded, when asked about the premises of her recent paintings. Light, she said, illuminates but how it illuminates can be mysterious as well as clarifying, creating distortions, misperceptions and multiple readings. She is fascinated not only by light's constant changes but also by the differences in its appearance and in the appearance of the objects it spotlights, depending upon its brightness or dimness and whether it is natural or artificial, whether it comes from a candle or a light bulb, whether it is daylight or nightlight, summer or winter light. Color is equally important to the interpretation of her paintings.
...

Lilly Wei, a New York-based independent curator, essayist and critic.

(If you click on the image it will enlarge.)

Opening reception Saturday May 21st, 12-3pm.
The exhibition will stay open to the public until July 2nd.

The Earlville Opera House
East Main Street
Earlville, NY 13332
phone: 315.691.3550
www.earlvilleoperahouse.com

Read More

i am not a good enough feminist

Concrete Utopia together with Community Board 3 and No Longer Empty host 'i am not a good enough feminist', a group exhibition and accompanying publication. In an era of presumed gender equality and celebrated civil rights achievements, have we become complacent and disinterested in the discourse of feminism today? This project seeks to investigate feminism as a historically situated moment and the possibilities and necessities of its contemporary manifestations. As a show, i am not a good enough feminist is the interdisciplinary convergence of artists, writers, activists and intellectuals contemplating their experiences with, preconceptions of, and convictions surrounding feminism. You are welcome to join them.

The exhibition and publication integrate well-established voices in art and scholarship with emerging young artists in what promises to be an egalitarian, earnest, collective effort to question, confront, and inspire. The book of interviews, original texts, and reprinted materials includes notable contributors Carolee Schneemann, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Yvonne Rainer. As a group show, i am not a good enough feminist exhibits the work of 23 artists whose practice engages notions of gender, sexual identity, privilege, socio-economic power, among other themes. Pieces in the exhibition vary in medium such as the video “Sisters: A Hit for a Museum” by Fabienne Audéoud (debuted at Centre Pompidou in 2009), painting by Joan Snitzer NY member of A.I.R. Gallery, ergonomic sculpture by Johana Moscoso, and installation by Lizzy De Vita.

Opening Reception with the Artists: Saturday, May 7, 7–10 pm
Curatorial Talk: Wednesday, May 11, 6:30 pm

Concrete Utopia at Lispenard Street
58 Lispenard Street
Tribeca / Downtown

Photo by Sophia Moreno-Bunge. Annie 5am, 2009.

Read More

After Hours: Murals On The Bowery

Juliana Cerqueira Leite, one of our fellowship artists, is installing a new sculpture at a space opposite the New Museum for an Art Production Fund benefit party.
This Friday May 6th, 7-9pm, at CHILES/MATAR: reception for The Art Production Fund's Murals On The Bowery.

The installation will remain open by appointment until Sunday May 15th - please email info@jackchiles.com for further information.

For more information please follow the link, http://www.artproductionfund.org/.

Read More

Benefit Brunch for Japan

tART is hosting a benefit brunch to raise money for Japan this Sunday and you are welcome to join them. Just send them an email at aaaonyc@gmail.com before May 7th if you want to attend or go to their website for more information, http://www.tartnyc.org/.

Read More

American Abstract Artists International / 75th Anniversary

Former A.I.R. member Clover Vail has an artwork on show in the American Abstract Artists International / 75th Anniversary exhibition.

American Abstract Artists (AAA) was formed in 1936 in New York City to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art. American Abstract Artists exhibitions, publications, and lectures helped to establish the organization as a major forum for the exchange and discussion of ideas, and for presenting abstract art to a broader public. The American Abstract Artists group contributed to the development and acceptance of abstract art in the United States and has a historic role in its avant-guard. It is one of the few artists' organizations to survive from the Great Depression and continue into the 21st century.

"During World War II, European artists Piet Mondrian, Férnand Leger, and Moholy-Nagy emigrated to America and found a sympathetic community among the members of the AAA. Mondrian became a member of the group and was something of a spiritual mentor to many of them, along with Hans Hofmann . . . . In the 1950s, the more robust abstraction of Mondrian was replaced by a quiet stillness, particularly evident in the work and writings of artists like Ad Reinhardt and Burgoyne Diller. While abstraction seemed to be moving in new directions, the longevity of the group itself can be attributed to its lack of dogma, rejection of any party line of adherence to any manifestoes, and a general open enthusiasm for abstract art in all its variations."

This exhibition of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) celebrates 75 years of an important and active artists group. It will feature work from over 75 current members of the organization.

American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary, OK Harris, New York, NY. May 21 – July 15. Opening reception May 25th.

Read More

But that is a different story...

On-Verge, a website for Alternative Art Criticism, published a review by Erica Varlese about our Photo-exhibition with Jeanette May, Daria Dorosh and Sheila Ross.

"But that is another story… is just that: one after another, three very different photographic narratives wrapped up together in one convenient, collaborative exhibit.  The opening reception took place during the New York Photo Festival on April 28th in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn at the A.I.R Gallery. The show is a collaboration by artists Daria Dorosh, Sheila Ross, and Jeanette May which began when May proposed finding a way for the feminist, cooperative art gallery to participate in the Photo Festival.  While each artist’s style and content is strikingly different, the disparities between the pieces speak to the diversity of women’s work in contemporary photography.

..."

To read the whole article click HERE.

Read More

Four solo shows, one group show

Katherine Dolgy Ludwig, a former fellow and alumnae of A.I.R. Gallery, has a current series of solo large format watercolor shows, in New York, Toronto, and Washington: 
in April, the landscapes made interacting with the public of _CentralParkStory_ in honor of Immigrant Heritage Week, for the New York Mayor's Office;
in April, May, and June, the five foot still lifes of _PaintingFlowerLanguage_, at Pearl Gallery, Holy Blossom in Toronto (just to remind you, we have posted about the two exhibitions above earlier in April);
in July, the very large cathedral like text paintings of _Yes!_ based on the Molly Bloom speech by James Joyce, in collaboration with the Marshall McLuhan Centenary at the University of Toronto and Ryerson; and since 2010 ongoing, the portraits made interacting with 75 soldiers in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard, _IndividualInUniform_, at the U.S. Pentagon.

Katherine is also in a group show currently at the National Arts Club with the painting _TheDream_. Everyone is invited to the Opening Night Reception on Monday, May 16, 6-8pm, Tilden Mansion, 15 Gramercy Park South.

Read More

ROCK STARS: Art and Mineralogy

New York member Barbara Siegel has her article ROCK STARS: Art and Mineralogy published in the current (April) issue of Central Booking Magazine.  This issue of the magazine  can be purchased at Central Booking Gallery, 111 Front Street, Gallery 210, Brooklyn NY 11201 and can be ordered online at

http://cenralbookingnyc.magcloud.com

Read More