Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition. Several photographs from Jeanette May's "Easy on the Eyes" series are included in the exhibition and catalog for Reversing the Gaze: Man as Object. The exhibition

opens next week at SOMArts in San Francisco. Please take 2 minutes and 11

seconds (!) to watch the smart/sexy promotional video they created for the

show. Look for May's man "Dorothy" near the end of the video!

A link to the video http://youtu.be/f98DHxOnfWI

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Liz Biddle pictures from her show eARTh

This image is from the artist Liz Biddle. The show is called eARTh a large show featuring ceramic works, at Arts Westchester in White Plains, NY, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue until November 23, 2011. She has a large mixed media wall installation piece called Gyre, a gyre is a force of nature meaning a spiral vortex, such as a swirling tornado or hurricane or more specifically The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is also called the Pacific Gyre and consists of civilization’s refuse and litter being wind driven by surface currents which become trapped in a large region in the Pacific Ocean.

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Judith Bernstein's show at The Box

AIR Gallery's original member Judith Bernstein's show at The Box in Los Angeles  http://theboxla.com/exhibitions/past/judith_bernstein/index.html

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Judith Bernstein Frieze Art Fair

AIR Gallery's Original member Judith Bernstein's work from Frieze Art Fair Regent's Park London 13-16 October 2011

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Hello everyone,

Please come out to Newark, NJ to see "Call & Response", a group exhibition curated by Jennifer Junkermeier. I will be showing a new collaborative interactive installation. The opening reception is tomorrow, Sunday October 23, from 5 - 8 pm, and it is located at 570 Broad Street, 14th Floor, Newark, NJ. You can take NJ Transit to Newark Broad Street station, or the PATH train to Newark Penn Station. I hope to see you there.

Best,
Bang-Geul

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Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Fall Mash-Up

You are invited to The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Fall Mash-Up

Wednesday, November 16^th from 6pm to 8pm

Generously hosted by SOHO20 Gallery - 547 W 27^th #301

Organized by Kat Griefen, Jenn Dierdorf and Kathleen Wentrack

THE MASH-UP:

New York City TFAP coordinators gallerist Kat Griefen, artist and director of SOHO20, Jenn Dierdorf and art historian, Kathleen Wentrack invite you to join them for the 1^st TFAP NYC Mash-up. The program will consist of a brief introduction to The Feminist Art Project and the recent projects of the three coordinators. A roundtable will follow where attendees can share relevant upcoming activities and opportunities and offer ideas for future TFAP programs and projects.  Look forward to hearing about new feminist curatorial projects, writing, opportunities, and more. The evening will end with wine and informal conversation so those who have ideas and projects in common can meet and exchange information. Refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here or email info@accolagriefen.com

Although it is not mandatory, we encourage you to email us a 1-3 sentence synopsis of any relevant upcoming events, projects or opportunities you wish to share with the group during the roundtable portion of the program.

WHAT IS TFAP:

The Feminist Art Project is an international collaborative initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and the aesthetic, intellectual and political impact of women on the visual arts, art history and art practice, past and present. The Feminist Art Project is a strategic intervention against the ongoing erasure of women from the cultural record. The Feminist Art Project re-focuses public attention on the signal achievements of the Feminist Art Movement and shines a spotlight on current feminist art influences, trends and accomplishments.

See: www.feministartproject.rutgers.edu

For more information about this event visit AIR Gallery's Facebook page!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153069148123480

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Kira Greene show in CT!

Kira Greene, a 2009-10 fellow, is showing several of her imaginative and colorful paintings at a group show in Greenwich, CT opening on October 27th, "Still Life: Breaking New Ground." There is also going to be an artist talk on October 30th. 

Here is the address: FLINN GALLERY, Greenwich Library, 2nd Floor, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT.

And if you are interested in seeing more of her pieces, check out her website!

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"Contemplating Mysterious Landscapes" with Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin

National member Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin got a wonderful review for her show at the Nina Bliese Gallery! If you are in the Minneapolis area, stop by on October 30th to meet Ann and see her wonderful photographs.

You can read her review here: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/131797123.html

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365 Days of Print-- A Panel Discussion on the Processing of Today's Media!

There will be an Artists'/Curators' Panel for the 365 Days of Print Exhibition, Oct. 20, 5:30-7 p.m. This panel sounds like it will touch on some very current topics, should make for a very interesting discussion! Here is some more information from the press release:

"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 http://www.365daysofprint.com/"

 

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Floral Fractals-- An Interview with artist Gladys Tietz Mercier

A.I.R. Gallery artist Gladys Tietz Mercier’s photographic prints are an investigation between the natural and digital discipline. Each print is carefully crafted through a series of formal and technical decisions; from the initial capturing of the image, to the vigilant manipulation through digital imaging software that the chosen file is then subjected. In marrying these two profoundly different cannons Gladys comments, “The digital is capturing the moment. The natural is the moment.”  Gladys explains that her interest in flora and fauna began far back in her own history, “I grew up in a wooded area, walking distance from Long Island Sound, and my mother always kept a beautiful rose garden.” It wasn’t hard for her to make a connection with nature-- she was born into it.

Gladys Tietz Mercier is a part of the many digital immigrants working in the art world today, and her evolution into the area of digital manipulation came not without difficulties. Approaching her digital journey was not as intuitive as her connection with nature, as she explains “I came across my [digital] process by accident.”  

She clarifies that her digital work really begins before she sits down at the computer, by carefully managing the digital capture.  Once an image is recorded photographically she then transfers the file to her computer, where she uses imaging software as a means of transformation. Gladys compares her manipulation methods to painting in washes, unearthing the final product through a laborious dig into the artistic process. At the end of this processing Gladys acknowledges the graphic nature of her works, which references traditional printmaking as well as her previous background in fashion design.  Gladys draws inspiration from many artists for her artistic process, such as classic Impressionists, Van Gogh, Matisse, and Monet, as well as contemporary artists like Georgia O’Keefe and Louise Bourgeois.

Gladys Tietz Mercier’s show opened Thursday, October 6^th and will be on display Wednesday-Sunday 11-6 until October 29^th.

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REMINDER! OPEN CALL TO 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.

Each participating artist has the opportunity to work with the gallery artists to staff gallery programs and activities, and plans and implements a special community project for the gallery during their tenure. The program is structured to give the involved artists the opportunity to develop their work in preparation for a solo show, to build relationships with other artists and arts professionals, and to learn about not-for-profit gallery operations. They leave the program with a series of naturally forged relationships, experiences and skill sets useful in continuing their careers as visual artists. 

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.

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Alumnae Artist Kathy Dolgy is Back on the Block in Brooklyn!

This Sunday October 3, Kathy Dolgy will premier a screening of a 90 minute documentary about her

watercolor work with musicians on Toronto Island in 2007, coproduced with jazz presenter Ron Gaskin, videoed by filmmaker Eric Weinthal. You can see the film _Splash!_ at the Toronto Island Film Festival, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto.

Also, until November 19, Kathy will been exhibiting her latest solo show _DaysOfCreation_ at Pearl Gallery, Holy Blossom, 1950 Bathurst Street, Toronto

And Finally, check out Kathy's last exhibition at A.I.R. in Chelsea, now on YouTube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afa_x4R-Tj4

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A.I.R. Alumnae Artist Jennifer Williams opens her latest exhbition at Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space

Jennifer William's latest group exhibition Staged is now on display at the Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space in Philadelphia, PA until November 19, 2011. Opening reception is October 2, 5-7 PM and can be viewed on Saturday's 1-4 PM.

"Jennifer Williams  documents, deconstructs, and re-composes visual elements of cities, giving form to dissonance within the urban geography. The use of photography in her work is cumulative; she uses archival and current self-generated images to build large-scale collage-type forms.  Williams is fascinated with the organic and idiosyncratic architectural transformations evident on a macro and micro level within urban environments, specifically New York City. Identifying and commenting upon the metamorphosis of space/place due to the renewal/disinvestment of inner-city areas is a driving force behind her work."

For more information on Mt. Airy Contemporary Artists Space, Staged, and Jennifer Williams, check out their website here.

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National Member Phyllis Ewen featured on SouthCoastToday.com!

Keith Powers, contributing author of SouthCoastToday.com writes a visually enticing article reviewing the Phyllis Ewen's pieces in the show Works, up now at the BCC Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery in Fall River, MA.

To read the full article and for more information on the show, check it out here.


Works runs through Oct. 21 at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery in the Jackson Arts Center at Bristol Community College, 777 Elsbree St., Fall River. The exhibition is free. The gallery is open 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. For information, visitwww.bristolcc.edu/gallery or call (508) 678-2811 ext. 2631 

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Opening Reception 10/6, 6-9pm: Francie Shaw, Sue Hettmansperger, and Gladys Tietz Mercier

Please Join A.I.R. Gallery this Thursday October 6, 2011 from 6-9pm, for the opening shows of Francie Shaw, Sue Hettmansperger, and Gladys Tietz Mercier. 


Francie Shaw's Old is New will be on display in Gallery I, Sue Hettmansperger's Entanglement will be on display in Gallery II and Gladys Tietz Mercier's Floral Fractals: Imaging in a Digital Culture will be on display in Gallery III.


All the exhibits will remain in the galleries from October 5 till October 29, 2011, and can be seen Wednesday Through Sunday, 11am-6pm.

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