Thursday, September 29, 2011
Author Jason Schneiderman poetically responds to Katherine Mann 2012 Fellow
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Against Seamlesness: An exhibition by Harmony Hammond
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| Harmony Hammond Red Bed, 2011 courtesy of Dwight Hackett projects |
Dwight Hackett projects in Santa Fe is pleased to announce Against Seamlessness, an exhibition of new paintings by Harmony Hammond opening on Saturday, October 15, 2011, (reception 3 - 5 pm). An illustrated catalogue - with foreword by Julia Bryan-Wilson and essay by Tirza True Latimer - published by Radius Books, will accompany the exhibition.
NJCU Visual Arts Gallery presents 365 Days of Print: An Exhibition of Arts Mining Media
Comprised of works by over forty artists from the online project of the same name, "365 Days of Print: An Exhibition of Artists Mining Media" catalogues the struggle and challenge to process, respond to and engage with the evolving media landscape, its images and content. Artists have used audio, collage, photography, embroidery, and sculpture to comment on and critique press coverage of every major event - from protests in Tunisia and Egypt to the debt ceiling debate, from the Fukushima disaster to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Since January 2011, 365 Days of Print has invited small groups of artists for one-month residencies to create work sourcing newspapers and various media outlets. Working under the same deadlines as journalists, artists created work every day that engaged and commented not only on the information and events covered by The New York Times and other newspapers, but on the medium itself and such concepts as bias, objectivity, sexism, consumerism and conflict of interest.
Organized by artists and curators Kenneth Pietrobono and Doris Caçoilo, the exhibition will feature over 120 works and will be installed at both the Dumbo Arts Festival and The Visual Arts Gallery at New Jersey City University. Using a loose chronological format, the exhibit will illustrate news events as they occurred, allowing pieces to engage in a visual dialogue of shared experience. In keeping with the pace of the media cycle, space will be left available for future works by contributing artists throughout the run of the exhibition.
Created by Maya Joseph-Goteiner, 365 Days of Print continues to enlist artists to make new work through 2011. For more information on the project, please visit
Oct. 1 - Oct. 27
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct. 1, 5 p.m.- 8p.m. (part of JC Artist Studio Tour)
We will be open from noon to 5 p.m. for JC Studio Tour as well.
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct. 1, 5 p.m.- 8p.m. (part of JC Artist Studio Tour)
We will be open from noon to 5 p.m. for JC Studio Tour as well.
Artists' Panel: Oct. 20, 5:30 p.m. at the auditorium (adjacent to the gallery)
The gallery is located at 100 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07305.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Fellowship Member Annie Ewaskio featured in Marco Polo for A Happy Ending group show
Fellowship member Einat Imber's sculpture and installation work at Dumbo Arts Festival
Fellowship member Einat Imber will be participating in this weekend's DUMBO Arts Festival, as well as the coinciding Governor's Island Art Fair. You can see her site-specific installation on the Plymouth St. train tracks in DUMBO, and her last viewing of Cave Drawing on Governor's Island. For more info on Einat, check out her website here.
For more information on this weekend's events:
DUMBO Arts Festival
Perimeters
Check out some of the spectacular events happening through Rutgers!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
NY member Louise McCagg Participates in Kocho for DUMBO Arts Festival
The New York Times has identified Kocho as:
"A strong, unidentified, and strikingly individual utterance if ambiguous beauty."
For ticket and location information, visit the Galapagos Art Space site here.
NY member JoAnn McFarland opens How to Paint a Picture for DUMBO Arts Festival
For more information on the even as well as Cave Canem, check it out here.
Creative Time's Living as Form as the historic Essex Street Market!
Curator Nato Thompson comments in his statement:
"In the decade of the 21st century, a critical mass of activism has emerged. Likewise, socially engaged art is on the rise, shaking up foundations of art discourse, and sharing techniques and intentions with fields far beyond the arts. But unlike its avant-garde predecessors such as Constructivism, Futurism, or Dadaism, socially engaged art is not an art movement. Instead, these cultural practices indicate new ways of life that emphasize participation, challenge power, and span disciplines ranging from urban planning and community work to theater and the visual arts."
Read the rest of Nato's statement, and more about the event here.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN ARTISTS!
OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN ARTISTS
A.I.R. FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: 18-month professional development program with solo show opportunity for NYC area self-identified women artists.
2012-13 PANELISTS: Lauren O’Neill Butler, Artforum.com Managing Editor; Susana Toruella Leval, Curator and Arts Consultant; and David Revere McFadden, William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator and Vice President for Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of Arts and Design.
You can find the application and more information here.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59 PM October 29, 2011
The A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Program, in place since 1993, provides under-represented and emerging artists with a visible gallery space while focusing on building relationships with other more experienced artists and art professionals. By removing the financial responsibilities of membership, the Fellowship Program includes a younger and more diverse group of women artists in the artist-run nature of the gallery. A panel of outside curators, critics and established artists selects participating artists annually. Panelists visit the individual artists’ studios in preparation for their solo shows.
As art critic Holland Cotter recently wrote in the New York Times, “Most of the interesting American artists of the last 30 years are as interesting as they are in part because of the feminist art movement of the early 1970’s. It changed everything . . . . What art in the next 30 years will look like I don’t know, but feminist influences will be at its source.” Building on A.I.R.’s historical influence on contemporary art, the Fellowship Program uses the relationship between the gallery’s existing members and the new fellows to create an inter-generational dialogue critical to guaranteeing a future for A.I.R. as an alternative space for women artists.
The A.I.R. Fellowship Program is made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a state agency, JP Morgan Chase through a re-grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, as well as generous support from The Bernheim Foundation, The Gifford Foundation, Elizabeth A. Sackler, The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, The Theo Westenberger Estate, and many generous individual donors to the Emma Bee Bernstein Fellowship.
We only accept online applications.
There is NO application fee.
Columbia Spectator Reviews Joan Snitzer's Current Exhibition - Letters From Home
"Two aspects of the exhibition are especially intriguing: the role of the objects in a woman’s domestic life and the paintings mixed in with the objects. Snitzer has taken everyday household bottles, like mouthwash or detergent, and painted them white. She explains that this is a way of “erasing product identification and replacing it with gender identification.” One sees not only the object itself rather than the brand, but also what role this object plays in a woman’s home life." [KD]
You can read the full article here.
Letters From Home will remain in Gallery I until October 11, 2011.
International Member Eti Esther Naor's Exhibition Opens tonight in Tel Aviv!
ForByFor's September Newsletter
Check out ForByFor's September Newsletter! Read More for the link!
For|By|For is art for the people, by the people, and above all, for the greater good. For|By|For exhibitions aim to bring together a new audience of art collectors who are looking beyond the bottom line for art that inspires and heals not only themselves but the global community.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
A.I.R. Fellow Einat Imber at the Governor's Island Art Fair
The Governor’s Island Art Fair is open to the public Friday-Sunday, every weekend in September. Look for Einat's work in building E on the third floor.
For more information about the Governor's Island Art Fair, please visit their website here.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Just a taste of Sweden.. a reflection from Nancy Storrow
Sandviken, Sweden
Driving north towards Sandviken, Sweden, the trees that line the highway are birch and fir –straight & tall with white & black trunks & then the sudden, deep black- green of the firs. There are hardly any cars on the road. The roadside is lush green & from time to time there are masses of purple & pink lupine. The land seems big, the sky enormous, the trees forever. The trees are obviously planted; areas have been harvested & re-planted. Care for the land & care of the land.
A steel manufacturing magnate had owned our resort hotel, Hogbo Brut, now it serves as a rustic resort/ conference center & features artisans on site – glass, forge, textile, ceramic. Golden water is everywhere – ponds & lakes & streams – dyed by the iron in the ground. The deep reddish- colored buildings are dyed by copper tailings from copper mines. There are many flowers & strange birds. The air is moist.
Wednesday evening Daria & I were greeted by the Co-Directors of the Kunsthall, Lars Westerman & Daniel & Swedish artist Annika Erixan & her husband, Mats, a newspaper editor, and shared an elegant, too expensive dinner. Our hosts & hostess spoke excellent English – lots of talking & laughing & planning for the next few days. We heard that the exhibition is very good. We also heard about our very full schedule for the next few days.
After a fabulous Sweden buffet breakfast –at least 5 varieties of herring – we toured the studios of the craftspeople at Hogbo with Lars. Outdoor sculptures were pointed out to us while we were wandering the grounds. They seemed to have been almost randomly placed – etched stones that resemble ancient runic stones, balancing rocks, a maze. The Kuntshall curated these works for Hogbo.
Later we drove into the town of Sandviken to the Kuntshall. The same greenness everywhere.
The Kuntshall is a strong 1950’s building attached to the library & municipal center. The front is glass; there are skylights & an interior garden with plants & sculptures. “Vestige” looked terrific. The Kunsthall is big, extending through several rooms separated by wall dividers, but giving the feeling of one extended space. Each artist’s work had space around it; some works were on individual walls, the light was clear. Daria & I wandered through the rooms fascinated by the installations. I know everyone’s work, but everything looked new & had a clarity about it.
We had to meet “The Press” – a woman with her friend was late & pre-occupied. She questioned us about “feminism” and NYC. A male reporter from a different paper was more studied & serious, wanted to be left to look by himself. Not much interaction but he wrote the fine review. We finally had a very late lunch by a lake at a restaurant owned by one of the craftspeople we met at Hogbo.
The next day Daria & I gave a “Gallery Talk and Tour” to a group of older people on a culture tour. The Kuntshall was set with about 30 chairs. We presented the gallery, its history, programs & vision for the future, and then opened the session for questions from the audience. Mostly people asked practical questions. Daria & I took the group around the gallery – pointing out a few themes that run through the work & talking about process & content. The audience was so interested & excited to meet us – it made both of us feel that we have to return the favor & be more respectful of visitors to AIR in the future.
We had lunch with the four Swedish women artists who came specifically to see the exhibition & to be with us. Annika hosted lunch in her studio in Gavle (about half hour away) & we toured Hjordis’ house & studio. Hjordis was having an opening the same day as ours, but she wanted to do it all! Most of our talk was about art, life for the artist in Sweden versus NYC, life in Vermont, the art world in general & politics. We walked to the Museum in Gavle & had a personal tour of the museum with the curator, which had been arranged by our friends.
Saturday was the Opening Reception. It was so different from our Openings – no alcohol, no food & the people really looked at the artwork & asked us questions. We were introduced at the very beginning of the reception & we each spoke a little about AIR & then took people to view our own work. It was quite friendly & proper. After the Opening Reception we had a break & then a celebratory reception with invited guests, friends & family. We had a chance to relax & socialize & talk more about art. We were honored & made to feel really special. And it was delightful! People really liked the work – everyone’s work!
For the last hurrah we met our friends at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm & saw a retrospective of Siri Derkert’s work. Siri (1888–1973) was a feminist & a pioneer of Swedish 20th century art. She worked in the academy until she was barred because of her sex, she was a single mother, a radical, a fashion designer in 1910, a painter of profoundly psychological portraits and later she experimented with materials such as concrete, iron strips and clay. Her ground breaking public art was for the Östermalmstorg underground station (1965) in Stockholm. I had never heard of her.
I am writing all of this because I wanted to give you a flavor of the experience. I also wish other AIR artists had been able to go. Even more I wanted to let you know how terrific the show looked & how much it exemplified AIR – in the diversity & excellence of the work. We should all be proud.
All best,
Nancy
Alumnae Linda Kuehne's upcoming solo show at Kean University
Linda Kuenhe, an Alumnae member of A.I.R. Gallery will be exhibiting her new solo show Dead Trees Give no Shelter at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, starting October 6, 2011. The opening reception will be from 4:30 - 7 at the Nancy Dreyfoos Gallery in the Nancy Thompson Library. The show will remain up until October 26, 2011 and can be viewed Mondays-Thursdays 9AM-9PM, Fridays-Saturdays 9AM-5PM and Sundays 1PM-10PM. Kuenhe's work focuses on documenting colloquial, banal objects juxtaposed by their environments, searching to explore sublime nature of the objects spacial experience.
Friday, September 9, 2011
SIGN UP & Reserve a spot! ELASTIC CITY: CREEK & VALLEY SHRINES
Elastic City is now in its second season of presenting conceptual walks throughout and outside of New York. These walks are ones that focus less on factual information and more on heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space in the city.
Saturday, September 10, 1 PM & 4 PM
Saturday, September 17, 1 PM & 4 PM
90 minutes long. $20. Meet at the SW corner of Roosevelt Ave. & 126th St.
Reserve a spot here.
