Thursday, November 17, 2011
Juliana Cerquiera Leite, Waived Gallery
JACK CHILES presents WAIVED GALLERY Opening Reception Saturday November 19th, 6-9 Pm 208 Bowery, New York, NY, 10012
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A group exhibition curated by Jessica Reaves and Jack Chiles, analyzing the role of display and ‘contempo’ design in sculpture. Also featuring the gallery as SHOWROOM SCENARIO TWO, an experiment analyzing the role of the gallery as a showroom and vice versa.
This exhibition features new works by Juliana Cerqueire Leite, Alex Decarli, Nathaniel De Large, FAUX/real, Myeongsoo Kim, Lee Puckett, Sophie Stone, Peter Sutherland, Chloe Wessner
This exhibition features new works by Juliana Cerqueire Leite, Alex Decarli, Nathaniel De Large, FAUX/real, Myeongsoo Kim, Lee Puckett, Sophie Stone, Peter Sutherland, Chloe Wessner
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Daria Dorosh and Paddy Johnson on Technology and Art
Here is a link directly to the article: http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/11/14/concerns-from-the-second-economy-daria-dorosh-on-a-baby-boomers-relationship-to-technology-and-art/
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Jan Johnson, I did not provide the cup
Jan Johnson
I did not provide the cup
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Jan Johnson's I did not provide the cup. This is Jan Johnson's first solo exhibition with A.I.R. Gallery. She will be showing new works of varying mediums. The pieces will be on view from November 2 through November 26, 2011 with an opening reception on Thursday, November 3 from 6pm to 9:00 pm.
Jan Johnson's work simultaneously embraces and rejects the image of the domestic. Growing up in the South, Jan shares a deep tradition of women's domestic activities-quilting, embroidery, samplers and quilling. She learned to "make do" with what one has at home, efficiently and effectively. Her interests lie in the appropriation and subversion of these handiwork techniques. The methods of homespun production were passed down from generation to generation; the crafting of cloths, handkerchiefs and quilled paper forms were gifted to Jan. She thus retains a certain notion of duty to what she has been provided.
Jan Johnson received her Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. She received her Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing from Brandeis University and a Bachelors of Arts, with a Minor in Women's Studies from Wake Forest University. She lives and works in Lowell, MA.
For more information please visit
http://www.airgallery.org/images/Jan%20Johnson%20PR%20FINAL.pdf
http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=904
I did not provide the cup
Jan Johnson's work simultaneously embraces and rejects the image of the domestic. Growing up in the South, Jan shares a deep tradition of women's domestic activities-quilting, embroidery, samplers and quilling. She learned to "make do" with what one has at home, efficiently and effectively. Her interests lie in the appropriation and subversion of these handiwork techniques. The methods of homespun production were passed down from generation to generation; the crafting of cloths, handkerchiefs and quilled paper forms were gifted to Jan. She thus retains a certain notion of duty to what she has been provided.
Jan Johnson received her Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. She received her Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing from Brandeis University and a Bachelors of Arts, with a Minor in Women's Studies from Wake Forest University. She lives and works in Lowell, MA.
For more information please visit
http://www.airgallery.org/images/Jan%20Johnson%20PR%20FINAL.pdf
http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=904
Privacy Please! Curated by Erin Riley-Lopez and Annette Rusin
Privacy Please! Curated by Erin Riley-Lopez and Annette Rusin
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Privacy Please!, a group exhibition co-curated by Erin Riley-Lopez and Annette Rusin. The exhibit will take place at A.I.R.'s Gallery II from November 2 through November 26, 2011. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, November 3, from 6pm to 9pm.
Privacy Please! explores how women artists express private grooming rituals in their work. During the second wave of the modern feminist movement in the 1970's, female scholars questioned notions of beauty and how its perception was often linked to social standards.
The fourteen artists in this exhibition use ideas of transformation, their own childhood, or more conceptual ideas of beauty, and employ a wide range of media to explore private grooming rituals.
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Privacy Please!, a group exhibition co-curated by Erin Riley-Lopez and Annette Rusin. The exhibit will take place at A.I.R.'s Gallery II from November 2 through November 26, 2011. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, November 3, from 6pm to 9pm.
Privacy Please! explores how women artists express private grooming rituals in their work. During the second wave of the modern feminist movement in the 1970's, female scholars questioned notions of beauty and how its perception was often linked to social standards.
The fourteen artists in this exhibition use ideas of transformation, their own childhood, or more conceptual ideas of beauty, and employ a wide range of media to explore private grooming rituals.
The exhibition includes the work of: Becca Albee, Firelei Báez, Anjali Bhargava, Louisa Flannery, Teri Frame, Carrie Johnson, Kathleen Kranack, Jessica Lagunas, Rosemary Mez Desplas, Betsy Odom, Jessica Scott-‐Felder, Samantha Senack, Jaun Quick-to‐See Smith, and Ellen Wetmore.
About the Curators: Erin Riley-Lopez is a Los Angeles-based curator. Annette Rusin is a
About the Curators: Erin Riley-Lopez is a Los Angeles-based curator. Annette Rusin is a
Brooklyn-based 2009-2010 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Recipient.
Arboretum, Barbara Siegel
Barbara Siegel
Arboretum
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Barbara Siegel's exhibition entitled Arboretum, featuring wall installations and sculpture made between 2009 and 2011. The exhibition will be on view from November 2-November 26, 2011, with a reception on Thursday, November 3 from 6pm to 9pm.
Barbara Siegel is an installation and book artist living and working in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at Columbia University, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, Hartnett Murray Gallery, Parsons School of Design, Lehman College, The Gallery of South Orange, Nina Fruedenheim Gallery, Manhattanville College, and the University of Bridgeport. Her work is in numerous private and public collections. She graduated from the University of Chicago, and is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design. For more information please visit http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=830
http://www.airgallery.org/images/Siegel%20PR%20Edited%202011.pdf
Arboretum
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Barbara Siegel's exhibition entitled Arboretum, featuring wall installations and sculpture made between 2009 and 2011. The exhibition will be on view from November 2-November 26, 2011, with a reception on Thursday, November 3 from 6pm to 9pm.
Barbara Siegel is an installation and book artist living and working in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at Columbia University, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, Hartnett Murray Gallery, Parsons School of Design, Lehman College, The Gallery of South Orange, Nina Fruedenheim Gallery, Manhattanville College, and the University of Bridgeport. Her work is in numerous private and public collections. She graduated from the University of Chicago, and is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design. For more information please visit http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=830
http://www.airgallery.org/images/Siegel%20PR%20Edited%202011.pdf
Sunday, November 6, 2011
NY artist Francie Shaw's latest show at A.I.R. reviewed by Eileen Myles
We are excited to report that Francie Shaw's latest solo show at A.I.R., Old is New, was reviewed on the Art in America Blog by Eileen Myles.
Here is the part of the review that covers Shaw's exhibition:
I was going to a poetry reading on Saturday to see Rae Armantrout, San Diego's gift to the world. As we tried to meet and kept failing to organize it she mentioned she'd just gone to the A.I.R gallery to see Francie Shaw's show. I wanted to see it so I slogged in the rain and the snow to DUMBO, with umbrella and boots and the promise of fruit on the other side. An excellent juicy pear from the store right next to the gallery was the bribe for the trip. Francie's collages are as small as 12 by 12 inches and full of figures. I grew up in the '60s! If I see a slightly abstracted human form mixed with the sensation of political strife, I get ready to punch. Yet in Francie Shaw's pieces the ovals of the heads mortify into rings and chains, froth and eventually moons. I thought of the litany of terror in Marlene Dumas's work. Francie records history, and in these small works it comes through instead as a dance.
These are collages by the way—with gesso and ink and salvaged bits of earlier canvases. There's a bold arm gesture that erupts in a lot of them—well if it's not John Travolta, it's just a human line. A gesture or letter. Someone wearing a rabbit belt is directing impossible traffic against an eerie patterning that is swirling around and behind them. A big crappy torn moon hangs overhead. And by crappy I mean good, melancholy, strong. Altogether it feels like someone has an actual job—a signifying one. A language body in this tiny canvas is reaching, successfully, through the rising danger. It feels like a musical pause. A little blessing.
To read the full review (Myles reviews exhibitions by Lisa Yuksavage, Oscar Tuazone, and Nan Goldin in the same post), please click HERE.
