On Air: The Official Blog of A.I.R. Gallery

Interview with Jan Johnson

2011-12-04T10:44:00.001-08:00

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. These 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. She lives and works in Lowell, MA.

Why did you decide to pursue art as a career?

It is the best way for me to be authentic. I feel confident in making things and I like thinking about the ideas that are associated with the making. I can make a visual dialogue or a visual poem, a conversation, a monologue, and I get some momentary satisfaction from that. It connects me with the history of art, and also forces me to put my work out there to be seen. I am curious about the span of art as a career and how much I learn as it evolves and changes.

Describe your studio space.

Speaking of evolving and changing, I have moved twice in the past year and so has my studio space. My current studio is in Lowell, MA. I have a lot of boxes where I keep my threads and materials organized and several bags where I can make portable my materials. (Embroidery of a painting was something I did in graduate school and when my daughter was born, it was a pick-up and put-down way for me to keep my practice going.) I have many bookshelves filled with all kinds of books and sketchbooks, and another that is packed with mediums, paints, inks, brushes and supplies. My main area of work is on two tables, one for drawing and the other for my computer and sewing machine. I also have my grandmother's machine in it's own table. I have two walls for working, 7' and 12' wide by 18' high. My sewing machine looks out onto Hamilton Canal and the gate house that controls the water flow into the canal. I live in a historical live/work loft in a mill where a lot of female workers once made cloth. I'm on the fifth floor and can see the American Textile History Museum from my windows.My space prior was very tight, but sufficient. My drawing table and flat files took up half of my bedroom. I used to lay a lot of drawing out on my bed. My daughter would be asleep in the bed and I would have drawings and materials laid out around her. I tend to work late at night or early morning.

You mentioned in your artist statement for your upcoming show I did not provide the cup, the crafting methods you use were passed down from generation to generation. Based on this particular history, does nostalgia play an integral role in your work?

I am not longing for the past. I am passing on a culture and participating in my culture. I definitely channel my grandmothers. I imagine their world and think of how alike and different I am from them.

I am sorry to hear about your ailing grandmother, is this a source of anxiety that is projected onto your work? How does making art help to control your anxieties and fears?

Thank you. My grandmother passed away two years ago, at 92 after a long illness. She left me many wonderful works and taught me many embroidered stitches, which I integrate into my work. I think the anxiety of wondering whether my brain will fail and my memory will go is part of why I record moments and memories. The process of making does quell fears and anxieties. Obsessiveness is part of that process. It's not something that is always on the surface, but can be underlying. So much of sewing and embroidery is repeating a movement and that adding up of stitches can make something, beautiful or otherwise. Making that beauty can be the opposite of anxiety, and there are areas in my work that are that as well.

The handkerchief pieces are described as flesh-like. Why did you choose to use embroidery and fabric to represent skin?

A handkerchief is a cloth tissue that is kept in one's pocket or near to one's body. They were often embroidered and given as tokens of affection. I learned about the trapunto technique of sewing where the cloth is puffed up to make a textural surface. I began doing that before I knew what that was, and I was interested in making the material puff out and also cave in like skin.

How would you describe your process? Are you very focused when making your embroidery pieces? Do they happen intuitively or are they very structured?

I would say my process is a combination of first acting intuitively and then very structured. I am intensely focused because stitches with thread are small scale moves and I pay attention to what happens on both sides of the cloth. Intuitively, I tend to respond to an image, like the one out of which this work grew. Then I will often use the same structure, a section of it and/or a morphed version of it as a substrate to make an image--so in that sense it is very structured. There are a lot of sources that inform my work.

What were the first materials you worked with? What is your favorite kind of material to work with?

Pencil, charcoal, ink on paper and oil paints on canvas were the first materials that I worked with as an artist. This work grew out of a hard pencil drawing I made and decided I wanted to see as a sewn piece. My favorite kind of materials are ones that I can really manipulate. I think about different types of line which translates materially to thread. There's a lot one can do with hand-dyed silk embroidery thread: a satin stitch has a lovely sheen, a bullion stitch becomes dimensional, a single in-and-out stitch over one thread of the cloth makes a tiny touch of mark, and the dye of the thread can bleed to the cloth when wetted. The variegated silks are so rich in their colors.

Name a few artists you admire.

Louise Bourgeois, Sheila Hicks, Mary Delaney, Gego, Anna Maria Maiolino.

Julianna Cerquiera Leite, Galeria Casa Triangulo

2011-11-17T11:04:00.001-08:00

Juliana Cerquiera Leite, a 2010-2011 AIR Gallery Fellowship award winner, is working with Galeria Casa Triângulo in São Paulo, Brazil. Casa Triângulo is a pillar of the contemporary art scene in Brazil. Please visit their newly re-designed website for info and images: www.casatriangulo.com

Julianna Cerquiera Leite, Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide

2011-11-17T11:03:00.001-08:00

Juliana Cerqueira Leite, at the Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide. Jane Messenger, the curator, speaks about the works including Juliana's piece 'Up', 'Down'. Click on the link below to watch the short video.
http://youtu.be/E3LjKCIOdqQ

Juliana Cerquiera Leite, Waived Gallery

2011-11-17T10:58:00.001-08:00

JACK CHILES presents WAIVED GALLERY Opening Reception Saturday November 19th, 6-9 Pm 208 Bowery, New York, NY, 10012

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

http://petersutherland.tumblr.com/post/12790682748/jack-chiles-presents-waived-gal lery-opening

Daria Dorosh and Paddy Johnson on Technology and Art

2011-11-16T10:04:00.001-08:00

NY Member Daria Dorosh was interviewed by Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City. The interview touches on a lot of important topics in today's art world, definitely check it out. And keep the discussion going in the comments!
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/

Jan Johnson, I did not provide the cup

2011-11-13T12:18:00.001-08:00

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

Privacy Please! Curated by Erin Riley-Lopez and Annette Rusin

2011-11-13T11:48:00.001-08:00

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.

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

Brooklyn-based 2009-2010 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Recipient.

Arboretum, Barbara Siegel

2011-11-13T11:32:00.001-08:00

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

NY artist Francie Shaw's latest show at A.I.R. reviewed by Eileen Myles

2011-11-06T09:12:00.000-08:00

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.

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition

2011-10-30T13:08:00.001-07:00

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

Liz Biddle pictures from her show eARTh

2011-10-30T12:21:00.000-07:00

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.

Judith Bernstein's show at The Box

2011-10-30T12:09:00.000-07:00

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

Judith Bernstein Frieze Art Fair

2011-10-30T12:05:00.000-07:00

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

2011-10-23T08:58:00.001-07:00

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

Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Fall Mash-Up

2011-10-23T08:24:00.001-07:00

Youare invited to TheFeminist 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 KathleenWentrack

THE MASH-UP:

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

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

Although it is notmandatory, we encourage you to email us a 1-3 sentence synopsis of any relevantupcoming events, projects or opportunities you wish to share with the groupduring the roundtable portion of the program.

WHAT IS TFAP:

The Feminist Art Project is an international collaborative initiative celebrating the FeministArt Movement and the aesthetic, intellectual and political impact of women onthe visual arts, art history and art practice, past and present. The Feminist Art Project is a strategic intervention against the ongoing erasure of women fromthe cultural record. TheFeminist Art Project re-focusespublic attention on the signal achievements of the Feminist Art Movement andshines 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

Kira Greene show in CT!

2011-10-19T12:50:00.000-07:00

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!

"Contemplating Mysterious Landscapes" with Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin

2011-10-19T12:39:00.000-07:00

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

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

2011-10-14T09:04:00.000-07:00

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/"

Floral Fractals-- An Interview with artist Gladys Tietz Mercier

2011-10-08T11:15:00.000-07:00

A.I.R.Gallery artist Gladys Tietz Mercier’s photographic prints are an investigationbetween the natural and digital discipline. Each print is carefully craftedthrough a series of formal and technical decisions; from the initial capturingof the image, to the vigilant manipulation through digital imaging softwarethat the chosen file is then subjected. In marrying these two profoundlydifferent cannons Gladys comments, “The digital is capturing the moment. Thenatural is the moment.” Gladysexplains that her interest in flora and fauna began far back in her ownhistory, “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 makea connection with nature-- she was born into it.

Gladys Tietz Mercier is a part of the many digital immigrants workingin the art world today, and her evolution into the area of digital manipulationcame not without difficulties. Approaching her digital journey was not as intuitiveas 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 sitsdown at the computer, by carefully managing the digital capture. Once an image is recorded photographicallyshe then transfers the file to her computer, where she uses imaging software asa means of transformation. Gladys compares her manipulation methods to paintingin washes, unearthing the final product through a laborious dig into theartistic process. At the end of this processing Gladys acknowledges the graphicnature of her works, which references traditional printmaking as well as herprevious background in fashion design. Gladys draws inspiration from many artists for her artisticprocess, such as classic Impressionists, Van Gogh, Matisse, and Monet, as wellas contemporary artists like Georgia O’Keefe and Louise Bourgeois.

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

REMINDER! OPEN CALL TO WOMEN ARTISTS!

2011-10-02T11:26:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2011-10-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

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

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

2011-10-02T10:31:00.000-07:00

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.

National Member Phyllis Ewen featured on SouthCoastToday.com!

2011-10-02T10:17:00.000-07:00

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

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

2011-10-02T09:36:00.000-07:00

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.

Author Jason Schneiderman poetically responds to Katherine Mann 2012 Fellow

2011-09-29T10:30:00.000-07:00

Art blog, IN QUIRE has recently published a thought provoking segment on A.I.R. Gallery 2012 Fellow Katherine Mann, in conjunction with accomplished writer Jason Scheiderman's response to her painting Slurry. To read the full article and response, check out the IN QUIRE blog here.

Against Seamlesness: An exhibition by Harmony Hammond

2011-09-25T11:24:00.000-07:00

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

2011-09-25T11:15:00.000-07:00

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.

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.

Fellowship Member Annie Ewaskio featured in Marco Polo for A Happy Ending group show

2011-09-22T11:19:00.000-07:00

Fellowship member Annie Ewaskio has recently been published in this month's version of Marco Polo online literature and arts magazine. Her work is a part of the group show A Happy Ending, amongst 35 other talented artists. All works in the show have been inspired by Truffaut's film La Femme d'à côté. More works from the show can be seen here.

Fellowship member Einat Imber's sculpture and installation work at Dumbo Arts Festival

2011-09-22T10:53:00.000-07:00

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!

2011-09-22T10:31:00.000-07:00

Rutger's Institute for Women and Arts and its affiliates are promoting some great events this season, including the Real Time Brainstormers show, up now through December 9th, as well as Disillusions - Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas, opening tonight at 5pm. For more information on these shows and other events happening, check out Rutger's Institute for Women in Art here and Rutgers Feminist Art Project here.

NY member Louise McCagg Participates in Kocho for DUMBO Arts Festival

2011-09-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

New York member Louise McCagg will be participating in the new collaborative contemporary opera Kocho taking place at Galapagos Art Space, Friday September 23, coinciding with the DUMBO Arts Festival. Louise has created the masks and installation work for an unusual piece that combines Japanese Noh Theater, ancient Greek Drama and Indian Music.

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

2011-09-17T09:05:00.000-07:00

New York member JoAnn McFarland will be opening her latest multimedia exhibition How to Paint a Picture at Cave Canem, coinciding with DUMBO Arts Festival. The opening takes place September 23 at 6:30, where JoAnn's oil paintings, video installations, and collaborative poems will be on display through the end of the year. Cave Canem is located at 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A.

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!

2011-09-17T08:38:00.000-07:00

Starting September 24 and running through October 16, Creative Time opens Living as Form, an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. The engagement takes place at the historic Essex Street Market, on the southeast corner of Essex and Delancey and can be viewed Thursday through Sunday, 12-8 PM.

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.

OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN ARTISTS!

2011-09-15T12:38:00.000-07:00

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.

You can find the application and more information here.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59 PM October 29, 2011

We only accept online applications.

There is NO application fee.

Columbia Spectator Reviews Joan Snitzer's Current Exhibition - Letters From Home

2011-09-15T11:21:00.000-07:00

Kayla Desroches praises Joan Snitzer's current exhibition Letters From Home, in her September 12 article for the Columbia Spectator. She notes:

"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!

2011-09-15T10:41:00.000-07:00

International A.I.R. Member Eti Esther Naor's latest exhibition You Are All Red, And So Very White will open tonight at 8pm at the Florentin 45 Contemporary Art Space in Tel Aviv. The exhibition will remain up until October 29.

"Red wax stalactites dripping out of white gauze fabrics, hanging, creating a sculptural installation which shakes the viewer. The work captures the viewer within its empty spaces and leads him/her into the depths of an enigmatic experience: Is this a scene of violence, a news item, or is it a window to an inner pain, stretching out like an ancient scenery, attempting to reach and touch what can not be described? In her new work, Eti Esther Naor continues to examine various ways in which material embodies evasive and ambivalent feelings such as eroticism, fear, beauty and suffering. Using the material, she creates a fantastic space that raises the duality of the female experience, and questions the possibility of one clear emotional and conceptual interpretation."

ForByFor's September Newsletter

2011-09-15T10:27:00.000-07:00

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.

A.I.R. Fellow Einat Imber at the Governor's Island Art Fair

2011-09-11T09:00:00.000-07:00

2011-12 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Artist Einat Imber is participating in this year's Governor's Island Art Fair. Her installation at the fair, “Cave Drawing”, consists of a 100 foot long drawing she made on her last visit to Israel. The drawing is woven between a system of wires to create a space within a space.

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.

Just a taste of Sweden.. a reflection from Nancy Storrow

2011-09-10T11:47:00.000-07:00

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

2011-09-10T10:56:00.000-07:00

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.

SIGN UP & Reserve a spot! ELASTIC CITY: CREEK & VALLEY SHRINES

2011-09-09T08:52:00.000-07:00

2010-11 A.I.R. Fellow Anne Percoco is expanding on her installation work to create a walk with participants in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Participants will interact with the park's natural and synthetic living systems as well as its rich mythology as an ash dump and subsequently, the site of the World's Fair. The group will use their bodies and found materials to construct personal and communal shrines, functioning as focal points in the landscape. This walk is produced in collaboration with Residency Unlimited.

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.

10 Years and Counting Featured Artist: Regina Granne

2011-08-18T12:00:00.000-07:00

A.I.R. New York City member artist Regina Granne is currently featured by 10 Years and Counting, an organization that "invites artists and others to use the power of creativity to illustrate the costs of war and imagine a more peaceful world" as the U.S. enters its 10th year of continuous war.

In the past decade, Granne has used oil painting and drawing to visualize both the motives and effects - global and interpersonal - of violence and warfare. With clarity, elegance, a bold aesthetic, and masterful technique, Granne restructures and pays homage to that which has been shattered by war.

Red Table II, 2004
Oil on linen
56" X 62"

Fallen Soldier and Flower, 2008
Watercolor and graphite on paper
13" x 15"

Round Robin Collective in Residence at A.I.R. - August 5-28!

2011-07-29T13:47:00.000-07:00

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 4th from 6-9pm.

Gallery Hours: Thursday 5:30 - 8:30pm, and Fri - Sun, 11 to 6pm, or by appointment.

Round Robin Collective is a Brooklyn-based group of artists established in 2008 to forge connections and create a space for dialogue in and out of the studio.Members of Round Robin will exhibit new works and host a series of events throughout the month. Current collective members and exhibiting artists include: Mary Billyou, Amanda Browder, Caroline Burghardt, Lisa Caccioppoli, David Coyle, Martin Esteves, Jamie Kim, Deirdre McConnell, Katherin McInnis, Christopher Rose, Stephanie Rothenberg with Dan S. Wang, Janos Stone and Audra Wolowiec.

For a Full Press Release, please click HERE.

Extending Round Robin Collective's practice of studio visits, several members will give artists talks and discuss their exhibited work with each other and the public on Thursday evenings starting at 7 pm throughout the month (excluding the opening night).

Schedule for Presentations:
Thursday, Aug 11 - Caroline Burghardt, Martin Esteves, and Katherin McInnis
Thursday, Aug 18 - Mary Billyou, Deirdre McConnell, Stephanie Rothenberg, and Janos Stone
Thursday, Aug 25 - Amanda Browder, Christopher Rose, and Audra Wolowiec.
Mixed Use, a selection of videos and films on the alternative use of space, organized by Mary Billyou will screen on Tuesday, Aug 16, 6-8 pm.

Further events and changes to the schedule will be announced on the Round Robin Collective website and Facebook page.

In conjunction with the exhibition Round Robin Collective in Residence, the Collective is pleased to announce their first edition portfolio. Ten of the artists in the Collective have created special editioned works on paper, prints, photographs, and small sculptures which will be available either individually or as a portfolio of the entire collection. Showcasing the breadth and scope of this unique group of artists, the proceeds for the portfolio will partially fund future public Round Robin Collective projects.

For more information about Round Robin Collective or to contact Round Robin, please visit their website at roundrobinbrooklyn.blogspot.com or email roundrobinbrooklyn@gmail.com.

Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School visits A.I.R.

2011-07-10T15:19:00.000-07:00

A class of third graders from Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School visited A.I.R. Gallery and had the opportunity to engage with the artwork, as well as have an exchange with exhibiting artists and A.I.R. members Ann Pachner and Daria Dorosh.

Much thanks to Carolyn Martin, Ann Pachner, and Daria Dorosh. of the A.I.R. Education Committee for organizing the event.

Photo Credit: Danielle de Hoog

SPECIAL PUBLICATION! After Gerhard Richter, A poster project by Joyce Kozloff

2011-06-25T13:24:00.000-07:00

SPECIAL PUBLICATION! CLICK TO SITE

After Gerhard Richter, A poster project by Joyce Kozloff

In his original work, Gerhard Richter listed the most prominent intellectuals in world history, only eight of whom were women. Joyce Kozloff's After Gerhard Richter replaces all the male names with women-naming those who have made significant contributions in the same fields, i.e., architects, artists, composers, philosophers, and writer.

To order your posters download the order form, call 732-932-3726 or email womenart@rci.rutgers.edu

The Artist:

One of the founders of the American Pattern and Decoration movement in the 1970s, Joyce Kozloff is an internationally recognized painter, public artist and feminist whose long-term passions have been history, culture and the decorative and popular arts. Kozloff's intricate designs can be seen in her opulent public artworks made from glass and marble mosaic and hand painted ceramic tiles, her mapped paintings and collages, frescoes, books, prints and installations. Her commitment to the revival of ornamentalism as a source for feminist art, plus her knowledge of art history and culture of Eastern and Western civilizations, place Kozloff among America's more original and engaging artists.

Kozloff graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a B.F.A. in 1964 and gained an M.F.A. in 1967 from Columbia University in New York. Joyce Kozloff has won numerous awards and honors, including National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1977 and 1985, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant in 1992 and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2004.
Her traveling mid-career survey, Joyce Kozloff: Visionary Ornament opened at Boston University in 1986. Crossed Purposes, a traveling two-person exhibition with her husband Max Kozloff, sponsored by the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, originated in 1998.. Kozloff's works are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and Yale University Art Museum.

Joyce Kozloff has taught in many universities, most recently at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was the Interim Director of the Graduate Painting Program during 2008-2009. She has been a member of the Board of Governors at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine since 1998. (abstracted from: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kozloff-joyce )Kozloff recently published a poster to coincide with the Jewish Museum's 2010 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism exhibit in which she participated. This poster, Naming II: A Feminist and Jewish Renaming of New York City Streets, represents an old map of New York City in which she has replaced the original street names with those of 497 WELL KNOWN Jewish WOMEN. Kozloff says: "In the 90s, I began to notice that everywhere in the world that I traveled, the streets were named after men and we know that whoever names has the power." The image appears on one side and the list of artists/street names can be found on the back of the poster.

The Poster Project:

Kozloff recently published a poster to coincide with the Jewish Museum's 2010 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism exhibit in which she participated. This poster, Naming II: A Feminist and Jewish Renaming of New York City Streets, represents an old map of New York City in which she has replaced the original street names with those of 497 WELL KNOWN Jewish WOMEN. Kozloff says: "In the 90s, I began to notice that everywhere in the world that I traveled, the streets were named after men and we know that whoever names has the power." The image appears on one side and the list of artists/street names can be found on the back of the poster.
The Naming II poster is an antecedent to the After Gerhard Richter Project. In his original work, Richter, a prominent 20th and 21st century artist, listed the greates intellectuals in world history, only eight of whom were women. Kozloff 's After Gerhard Richter replaces all the male names with women-naming those who have made significant contributions in the same fields, i.e., architects, artists, composers, philosophers, and writers. (see attachments for drafts of the poster)

SPECIAL PUBLICATION! After Gerhard Richter, A poster project by Joyce Kozloff In his original work, Gerhard Richter listed the greatest intellectuals in world history, only eight of whom were women. Joyce Kozloff's After Gerhard Richter replaces all the male names with women-naming those who have made significant contributions in the same fields, i.e., architects, artists, composers, philosophers, and writer. Read more below!

After Gerhard Richter will be published to coincide with a forthcoming retrospective exhibition Feminist Masked Avengers: 30 Early Guerrilla Girls’ Posters/donated by founding member Liubov Popova to the Miriam Schapiro Archives/Rutgers University Libraries/Recent Work by Guerrilla Girls, Guerrilla Girls BroadBand,Guerrilla Girls On Tour!The show will be on view in the Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ from June 1- July 18, 2011. (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, pop culture and corruption in the art world. Now, 26 years later, the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art presents an exhibition of early Guerrilla Girls' posters and recent work by the Guerrilla Girls, GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand and Guerrilla Girls On Tour! This exhibition is curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin, Directors of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (IWA). A Feminist Fete to honor the Guerrilla Girls and to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the IWA is scheduled for Sunday, June 5, 2011 (3-6 pm). The After Gerhart Richter poster will be sold during the exhibit and afterwards by contacting the IWA offices at 732-932-3726.

Jill Conner Talks about Vestige: Traces of Reality

2011-06-25T11:46:00.000-07:00

Curator, Jill Conner, talks with member artists and audiences of A.I.R. Gallery about her concept behind Vestige and her process for creating the show. Check it out!

Blog Review of New York City A.I.R. Gallery Artist Susan Bee and her most recent work

2011-06-23T09:21:00.001-07:00

Mythological creature: Susan Bee
By Sharon L. Butler

A.I.R. fellow, Sam Vernon, co-directs and co-creates "Intersection"

2011-06-22T09:58:00.000-07:00

DUMBO IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AND NYC DOT
KICK OFF SUMMER WITH PUBLIC ART
"INTERSECTION" A MURAL FOR FRONT STREET

On Tuesday, June 21st, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Dumbo Improvement District (DUMBO BID) marked the official start to summer with public art. On Front Street, the new mural "Intersection" by the team of Brooklyn artists Heidy Garay, Mikell Fine Isles and Sam Vernon, was installed.

"Intersection," a site-specific piece that is part of the pARTners track of NYC DOT's Urban Art Program, shows lines of seven colors meeting the corrugated vertical lines of the fence behind it. The concept mimics and bends the lines of the fence creating a colorful graphic that symbolizes the constant movement of DUMBO. The design is an abstracted interpretation of intersecting train tracks and the familiar New York City subway map and also references the cross-sections of cultures and people who view it. While the mural was directed by Garay, Isles and Vernon, they were joined by fellow Brooklyn-based artists and friends bring the mural to life from their workshop in Red Hook Studios. To learn more about the mural-making process and the artists, visit intersection-mural.tumblr.com.

"Today, we are thrilled to see Front Street brightened again with this colorful mural. This installation is yet another example of the community bringing life out into the streets and public spaces through the arts," said Alexandria Sica, Executive Director of the DUMBO BID. "Front Street is divided in half by the Manhattan Bridge - and a retail corridor exists on both sides - full of independent boutiques, bookshops and galleries. The mural links both sides of the neighborhood and is a testament to the creative tradition for which DUMBO is known. We are thankful for DOT's commitment to public art."

"Intersection" is the second mural commissioned by the Dumbo Improvement District to enliven the neighborhood. In 2007, the Dumbo Improvement District approached NYC DOT about the Front Street Mural Site, identifying the fence as a prime location for public art. In February of 2008, a colorful mural, "Nature Matching System," by Malaysian-born artist Tattfoo Tan was installed. The Front Street mural site was the DOT Urban Art Program's first project.

About the Dumbo Improvement District

The Dumbo Improvement District is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing and promoting DUMBO, Brooklyn. The Improvement District showcases DUMBO as a world class destination, advocating on behalf of DUMBO's businesses, property owners and residents.

The organization provides supplemental sanitation services, marketing, economic development, neighborhood programming and long-term planning. Find the Dumbo Improvement District on Facebook (www.facebook.com/dumbo.bid) or Twitter, (www.twitter.com/dumbobid) or please visit www.dumbonyc.org.

The Dumbo Improvement District manages DUMBO's Business Improvement District (BID) an area bounded roughly by York Street, Bridge Street, Old Fulton Street and the waterfront.

About the New York City Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program: As part of DOT's "World Class Streets" initiative, the Urban Art Program works with community-based and not-for-profit organizations to install murals, sculptures and other art forms in plazas and on City bridges, medians, triangles, sidewalks, jersey barriers and construction fences around the City for up to 11 months. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/dot.

About the Artists

Heidy Garay

Heidy is a designer based in Brooklyn NY. A graduate of Parsons School of Design (2003 BFA in Illustration), she is currently working on her Master's Thesis in Industrial Design at Pratt Institute.

Her work is inspired by nature, her urban environment and the ability of objects to tell a story and leave an impression on a person's psyche.

In her current work she seeks to explore the intersection between art and design.

Mikell Fine Iles

Mikell is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently Director of Design at noise - an interactive marketing agency specializing in product innovation for young adults.

While growing up in the culturally diverse Mission district of San Francisco, Mikell became fascinated with the music, murals, and graffiti that engulfed the world around him. He uses this inspiration to find visual solutions for a range of well known clients.

Sam Vernon

Samantha Vernon is currently Development and Marketing Manager of Contemporary Art for BRIC Arts| Media |Bklyn. She graduated from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009 with an award for Excellence in Drawing.

Vernon is a 2010-11 A.I.R. Emerging Artist Fellow and recipient of the A.I.R. Emma Bee Bernstein Fellowship. Her first solo exhibition, Think On It-Then Lay It Down For Good was recently on view at A.I.R. Gallery March 29 - April 24, 2011. Her work will be on view this year in three upcoming group exhibitions at The Wassaic Project, Skylight Gallery, and Lesley Heller Workspace.

Image credit: Doneliza Joaquin

Carolee Schneemann: A Solo Reading

2011-06-22T09:34:00.000-07:00

The St. Mark's Bookshop Reading Series is proud to present:
Carolee Schneemann: A Solo Reading
Tuesday, June 28th at 7PM

Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle, edited by Kristine Stiles & Carolee Schneemann (Duke University Press)

Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she has written and received. Much of this correspondence is published here for the first time, providing an epistolary history of Schneemann and other figures central to the international avant-garde of happenings, Fluxus, performance, and conceptual art. Schneemann corresponded for more than forty years with such figures as the composer James Tenney, the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, the artist Dick Higgins, the dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, the poet Clayton Eshleman, and the psychiatrist Joseph Berke. Her “tribe,” as she called it, altered the conditions under which art is made and the form in which it is presented, shifting emphasis from the private creation of unique objects to direct engagement with the public in ephemeral performances and in expanded, nontraditional forms of music, film, dance, theater, and literature.

Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist whose painting, photography, film, video, performance art, and installation works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the National Film Theatre (London), and Anthology Film Archives. She is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association and the author of Imaging Her Erotics – Essays, Interviews, Projects; More Than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings; and Cezanne, She Was A Great Painter.

The reading will take place at:
St. Mark's Bookshop – 31 Third Avenue (at 9th Street) – New York, NY 10003
For more information please visit the shop, call (212)260-7853 or email: stmarksbooks@gmail.com

FUCK WAR!!!

2011-06-22T09:23:00.000-07:00

Art Production Fund & The New Museum Presents:

After Hours - Murals On The Bowery
CLOSING July 7, 2011

Judith Bernstein's FUCK WAR!!! is on display at 272 Bowery.
Mondays - Saturdays after 5pm, Sundays all day!

FUCK WAR!!! is also available as a Prop Art, sold at The New Museum and selected venues.

SIGHT unSEEN vol.2

2011-06-22T09:19:00.000-07:00

Join SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery and curator Jennifer Wroblewski for SIGHT unSEEN vol.2, the second in an ongoing series of gallery tours through the Chelsea arts district of New York City. SIGHT unSEEN encourages the examination and discussion of art by women and hopes to share with the public the myriad of provocative, inquisitive, and engaging works by women artists. This month's tour will feature works by Sally Smart, Jessica Rohrer, and Louise Bourgeois.

Jennifer Wroblewski, born California, 1973, is a visual artist, curator, and professor. Her work consists of monumentally scaled drawing and drawing installation projects which explore the relationship of the expressive mark to written language, the relationship between performance and product, and historical aspects of drawing technique and language.

Wroblewski's curatorial interests include the relationship between motherhood and art-making and the ways in which artists navigate this fraught terrain.

Her drawings and curatorial project were included in the feminist art survey The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art. In 2009/2010, she curated the exhibition Mother/mother-* at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn.

This tour is FREE and open to the public!

The tour will commence at 2pm at Postmasters Gallery, and culminate at SOHO20 Chelsea just before 4pm for a reception with light refreshments and a brief talk by artist Monica Bock.

Other galleries featured in the tour include Cheim and Reid and P.P.O.W.

To RSVP and receive a complete list of galleries and addresses please email the gallery at soho20@verizon.net or call 212.367.8994

Vestige: Traces of Reality, curated by Jill Conner

2011-06-17T14:16:00.000-07:00

@ A.I.R. Gallery, June 22 – July 16, 2011
@ Konsthallen, Sandviken, Sweden, June 18 – July 23, 2011

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce, “Vestige: Traces of Reality,” a two part exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery and Konsthallen, Sandviken, Sweden. The exhibition is curated by New York based critic and curator, Jill Conner and includes the work of 20 A.I.R. Gallery artists. The opening reception at A.I.R. Gallery will be held on Thursday, June 23 from 5:30pm to 8pm, with a talk by the curator at 5:30pm.

Since 1976, only two years after A.I.R. opened its doors, the gallery has presented groundbreaking exchange exhibitions with groups of international women artists from France, Israel, Japan, Hungary and Sweden. Following last year’s exhibit of Swedish women artists, A.I.R. Expedition Sweden, the gallery is now pleased to offer the companion exhibition, Vestige: Traces of Reality.

Artists included in the exhibition: Susan Bee, Liz Biddle, Sigrid Burton, Daria Dorosh, Regina Granne, Nancy Lasar, Jisoo Lee, Jeanette May, Louise McCagg, JoAnne McFarland, Catherine Mosley, Ann Pachner, Sylvia Netzer, Sheila Ross, Ann Schaumburger, Barbara Siegel, Francie Shaw, Elisabeth Munro Smith, Joan Snitzer and Nancy Storrow.

About the curator: Jill Conner is an art critic and curator based in New York City. She is currently the New York Editor for Whitehot Magazine and writes for other publications such as Afterimage, ArtUS, Sculpture, and Art in America.

Anne Percoco, Field Studies

2011-06-17T13:52:00.000-07:00

June 22 – July 16, 2011

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Field Studies, an exhibition of new work by 2010-2011 A.I.R. Fellowship Artist Anne Percoco. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 23, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM

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In her solo show, Percoco aggregates found representations of nature to create composite landscapes and faux natural formations. She also presents plans for a public project.

Anne Percoco earned her B.A. from Drew University in 2005 and her M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 2008. In 2009 she completed an Asian Cultural Council fellowship for work in India. There, she realized one solo show, at Chitrakala Parishath College of Art in Bangalore, as well as three public projects. In 2010 she was artist-in-residence with Residency Unlimited. She has shown at venues including the DUMBO Arts Festival and BRIC Rotunda Gallery, both in Brooklyn; the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, VA; Exit Art in Manhattan; and the U.S. Botanical Garden in Washington D.C. She lives and works in Jersey City. This is her first solo show in New York. For more information, please visit www.annepercoco.com.

Wish You Were Here 10

2011-06-17T13:23:00.000-07:00

Affordable Art Exhibit to Benefit A.I.R Programs for Women Artists
June 22 – July 16, 2011

We cordially invite you to join us on Wednesday, June 22 from 6pm to 8pm for the opening of Wish You Were Here 10. The proceeds from this exhibition of postcard-sized works benefit the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Artists

and other programs that serve our mission to advance the status of women in the arts.

The exhibit includes affordable works by more than 350 artists including Dotty Attie, Mimi Gross, Christopher Knowles, Joyce Kozloff, Linda Montano, Yoko Ono and Barbara Zucker.

Please note the sales of works is first come first serve.

The pieces are priced at $45 to $120 depending on size.

Wish You Were Here 10 also highlights “Cairns Birdwing,” a mixed media piece by Michelle Stuart, and “Flocked Red Cherry”, an exciting early piece by A.I.R. Gallery Founder, Judith Bernstein. These larger works will be available through silent auction. Please visit the gallery or contact 212 255 6651 or Info@airgallery.org to bid on a work.

View a selection of available works CLICK HERE.

View list of all participating artists CLICK HERE

We are also pleased to be drawing the winners for the Studio Visit Lottery during the reception on June 22 at 7:30pm. We hope you can join us!

A.I.R. Gallery was founded in 1972 as the first artist–run, not–for–profit gallery for women artists in the United States. A.I.R. Gallery would like to thank all the artists who made this exhibition possible.

A.I.R. Gallery is located at 111 Front Street, #228 in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. Gallery hours: Wed. – Sun., 11am to 6pm. For directions please visit www.airgallery.org. For more information please contact Gallery Director, Julie Lohnes at Jlohnes@airgallery.org

Epic DUMBO Stoop Sale

2011-06-15T13:06:00.000-07:00

The 3rd Annual Epic DUMBO Stoop Sale returns to The Archway on Saturday, June 18 from 11am to 4pm. A great opportunity to find new homes for your gently used items! DJs from halcyon will be spinning throughout the day and at 2pm there is a dance party with DJ Kai.
aricoco is having a table there, selling small art and used clothes and all other fun stuff!!! She will be also asking people to donate for "HELP IWAKI CITY" project at the table.

You will find more information by clicking here.

Construct

2011-06-15T12:56:00.000-07:00

Alumnae member Jennifer Williams is participating in a group show called "Construct".

An Exhibition by CFEVA Career Development Program Fellows
Curated by Amie Potsic

Utilizing the grand scale and unique feel of the Icebox Project space, CFEVA’s Career Development Program Fellows exhibit large scale site-specific installations, sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance. Fellows exhibiting are: Noah Addis, Arden Bendler Browning, Lewis Colburn, Don Edler, Laureen Griffin, Jordan Griska, Ana B. Hernandez, Mami Kato, Allison Kaufman, Daniel Kornrumpf, Maggie Mills, Tim Portlock, Alison Stigora, Jennifer Williams, Kimberly Witham, and Bohyun Yoon.

These artists address a diverse range of issues and ideologies through a variety of materials and presentation strategies. Issues surrounding public space, urban development and decay, repurposing materials, and life and death are explored in surprising ways. Additionally, artists push the boundaries of artistic tradition through unusual and unexpected approaches to traditional genres such as still-life and portraiture. Lewis Colburn will be seated atop a 15 foot wooden tower where he will be typing War and Peace by Tolstoy during a performance at the opening reception. Tim Portlock will exhibit large scale prints of decaying urban cityscapes created using 3D gaming software. Alison Stigora will exhibit a looming sculpture made from burnt wood swirling 13 feet into the air. And, Kimberly Witham will show photographs of still life’s she has created with dead creatures and décor.

June 17 – June 29, 2011
Opening Reception & Performance: Friday, June 17th 6 - 8pm

Location:
The Icebox at The Crane Arts Building
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

http://www.cranearts.com/?p=3274

Deadline "Illegitimate and Herstorical" extended!

2011-06-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

The deadline of our open call Illegitimate and Herstorical has been extended July 1st. If you haven't applied yet, you have another chance!

Illegitimate and Herstorical, an exhibit on alternatives in art, love, power, knowledge and community.
Curated by Emily Roysdon

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

ABOUT THE CURATOR: Emily Roysdon (1977) is a New York and Stockholm based artist and writer. Her working method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the form of performance, photographic installations, print making, text, video, curating and collaborating. Roysdon recently developed the concept "ecstatic resistance" to talk about the impossible and imaginary in politics. The concept debuted with simultaneous shows at Grand Arts in Kansas City, and X Initiative in New York. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. She is a contributing member with the band MEN. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. Roysdon's work has been shown at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Greater NY at PS1, Manifesta 8, Bucharest Biennial 4, Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna) and New Museum (NY). Her writings have been published in numerous books and magazines, including the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory.

For applying online or for a print out application please visit our website HERE.

Kira Greene participates in two group shows

2011-06-15T11:16:00.000-07:00

Former A.I.R. Fellowship artist Kira Greene is participating in two upcoming exhibitions;

BRONX CALLING: The First AIM Biennial
Guest Curators: Wayne North Cross and Jose Ruiz

Sunday June 26 - Monday September 5, 2011
Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse @165th Street
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 26, 2:00-6:00pm

"Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial" features sculptures, works on paper, video installations, photographs, and other works by the 72 participants in the 2010 and 2011 AIM program. On view at the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill, the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program has advanced the careers of hundreds of artists over the last three decades. The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive 124-page fully illustrated catalogue featuring essays by Wayne North Cross, Jose Ruiz and Christian Viveros-Fauné. For more information and the full list of AIM artists, please refer to the full press release.

Group Exhibition: CROSS CURRENTS

TOGONON GALLERY, 77 Geary, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
June 16 through July 16, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 16, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Group Exhibition: Cross Currents is a first-time gallery exhibition that showcases contemporary works of three artists from Asia, juxtaposed with works of four Asian-American artists. The American artists include Kira Greene, Grace Munakata, Ben Needham and Mitsu Okubo, and the international Asian artists include, John Chang, Norberto Roldan and Gerardo Tan. The goal of the exhibition is not to present an in-depth survey, but rather, to showcase an initial effort to explore how current global art aesthetics, socio-political events, rapid communication, and technological advances have influenced art making for these seven artists.

Before You Go: With drawings by Susan Bee, dedicated to Emma Bee Bernstein

2011-06-10T09:52:00.000-07:00

Artcritical.com published a piece about and accompanied by Charles Bernstein's poem Before You Go, with images by Susan Bee.

"Susan Bee writes: Charles wrote the poem in July and August of 2010, while we were traveling and on vacation. In August in Provincetown, I read the manuscript of the poem and decided to set excerpts from the poem. The pages published here are my settings of lines from the poem, with hand drawn and collaged elements and with lines that are also hand lettered. ..."

To read the whole article, the poem and see the images please click HERE.

Image: Emma Bee Bernstein, Self Portrait with Change Machine and Pearls, 2006. Courtesy of Janet Kurnatowski Gallery

Interview with Susan Bee by Tom Winchester

2011-06-10T08:51:00.000-07:00

Sovereign Nation published an interview between Tom Winchester and Susan Bee about her current show Recalculating at A.I.R. Gallery.

"Susan Bee‘s Recalculating at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn examines all of art history through a postmodern lens: as if its most epic battles were appropriated then compressed onto a canvas in a style that is similar to the way that David Salle, Nicole Eisenman, and Cindy Sherman have created their compositions. Without losing her style to a sea of reproductions, Bee maintains Recalculating as an exhibition of paintings that makes its two distinct themes battle each other in order to expose their tenuous theoretical commonalities. On the surface ironic fairy tales of domestic disputes and shattered windows build a film noir representative of today’s sobered ideals. Below the surface is a painterly, Bauhaus-inspired formal deconstruction that sometimes hides beneath objects that are fully rendered. The paintings’ formal tension reflects their dissonant narratives, creating a universality that art aspires to.

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To read the whole article please click here.

Group and Solo show

2011-06-09T14:49:00.000-07:00

Fellowship artist Anne Percoco has work in a group show at the Purposeful garden, opening tomorrow, June 10th.

FIGMENT Festival
Curated by Christine O'Heron
Governors Island, NY (How to get there)
Friday, June 10, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Saturday, June 11 & Sunday, June 12, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
(I'll be there all day Friday and the end of Sunday)

Artists: Caitlin Berrigan, Fabian Grateroles, Anne Percoco, Junko Sugimoto and Edina Tokodi "Mosstika".

She also has her first solo exhibition coming up at A.I.R. Gallery, which is called
Field Studies.

June 22 to July 16
Reception: Thursday, June 23, 6:00 to 8:00 PM.

For more information go to our website www.airgallery.org

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY
Just one stop from Manhattan on the A, C, and F lines.

Bloodsisters

2011-06-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

Women's film series presents "Bloodsisters"

For Gay Pride month the Women's Film Series presents Michelle Handelman's "Bloodsisters". The film will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and author\activist Sarah Schulman.

This controversial film was attacked in congress in the mid-90s by the American Family Association for it's depictions of radical lesbian sexuality. Tonight's screening celebrates it's re-release by the Tribeca Film Institute. From pushy bottoms to macho femmes, Bloodsisters is an A-Z documentary guide that takes an in-depth look at the San Francisco Leatherdyke scene during the mid-nineties, shattering assumptions about gender and lesbian sexuality. "A ground-breaking documentary!" Time Out, New York.

Michelle Handelman is a 2010 Artist Fellowship recipient of theNew York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with
leadership support from the New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

Price - FREE!

Event date:
Friday, June 10 2011 : 7:00pm - 8:30pm

The Center
208 w. 13th St.
NYC 10011.
212-620-7310

Millenium film screening

2011-06-09T13:58:00.000-07:00

Millenium invites you to a film screening featuring work from Sarah Pucill, 8PM JUNE 11 (Sat.).

'Those Deep Approaches', Sarah Pucill for the Lux by Cherry Smyth;
'I defy you to find those deep approaches
Where no ordinary air is.
The tough wound plucks itself.'

from Swimming in Circles in Copenhagen, Anne Carson (1)

Sarah Pucill has been building a body of extraordinary experimental work for over two decades. Often working with a minimal crew and her home as studio, Pucill has managed to create striking and profound films that ring with her own distinctive signature, exploring the self portrait and also the aesthetic dialogue between still photography and live action film. In her early short films, she delights in staging the little catastrophes of intimacy that often go unnoticed or unacknowledged...

On PHANTOM RHAPSODY: Distinctive in its stark use of black and white and reminiscent of early silent cinema, this film is composed of a series of theatrical side-show magic acts. Three women stage tricks of appearance and disappearance, punctuated by trumpet, cello and drums.

Interchanging between the roles of magician, nude and filmmaker, they perform the preparation of an image and the prepared or completed image, drawing on iconic paintings. 16mm camera techniques as well as performance techniques with props - such as cloaks, drapery, curtains, wigs, mirrors, frames, wands and lighting - determine what is visible or absent in the film frame. With its surrealist sensibilities of artifice and reality and insistence on doubling and substitution, PHANTOM RHAPSODY probes the notion of identity as surface that can be worn or shed and which can extend beyond the boundary of the skin, into the light in the room, the set and the props.

More information can be found on http://www.millenniumfilm.org/.

Millennium
Film Workshop, Inc
66 East 4th St.
New York, NY 10003

'Illegitimate and Herstorical' deadline coming up!

2011-06-04T09:14:00.000-07:00

This is to remind you to the upcoming deadline June 15th for our open call Illegitimate and Herstorical curated by Emily Roysdon. An exhibit on alternatives in art, love, power, knowledge and community. A.I.R. welcomes an open interpretation of the theme.

Emily Roysdon (1977) is a New York and Stockholm based artist and writer. Her working method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the form of performance, photographic installations, print making, text, video, curating and collaborating. Roysdon recently developed the concept "ecstatic resistance" to talk about the impossible and imaginary in politics. The concept debuted with simultaneous shows at Grand Arts in Kansas City, and X Initiative in New York. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. She is a contributing member with the band MEN. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. Roysdon's work has been shown at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Greater NY at PS1, Manifesta 8, Bucharest Biennial 4, Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna) and New Museum (NY). Her writings have been published in numerous books and magazines, including the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory.

For more information or to apply, please go to our website, click HERE.

Studio Visit Lottery

2011-06-03T12:21:00.000-07:00

We want to remind you that the deadline for Studio Visit Lottery Entry is June 10th! You can win a studio visit by;

Dorian Bergen is the co-owner of ACA Galleries in New York City. ACA, founded in 1932, specializes in 19th & 20th century American & European Art & Contemporary Art.

Charlotta Kotik, is an independent curator and was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum since 1983. She has worked at the Jewish Museum, the National Gallery, Prague’s National Institute for Preservation and Reconstruction of Architectural Landmarks, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Robert C. Morgan is an internationally renowned art critic, curator, artist, writer, art historian, poet, and lecturer. Robert Morgan is the author of some 2000 essays and reviews, and is contributing editor to Sculpture Magazine, Asian Art News, The Brooklyn Rail, and New York correspondent for Art Press (Paris).

For more information about this opportunity please visit the Studio Visit Lottery page on our website by clicking HERE.

Charles Borkhuis on Susan Bee's pop neo-expressionism

2011-06-01T11:03:00.000-07:00

Charles Brokhuis wrote a short piece about Susan Bee's current exhibition Recalculating at A.I.R. Gallery.

"The stark, self-contained faces in Susan Bee's paintings accent a subjective interiority adjacent to the space of others that is in sharp counterpoint to the ominous menace that hangs over the coming events. There were no screams or facial displays of emotion surrounding these "desperate hours," but rather a deep dwelling in mood that somehow distances the subject from her "fate."
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To read the whole listing please click here.

Artists take different approaches to light, color in Earlville exhibit

2011-06-01T10:47:00.000-07:00

This is the title of a review Katherine Rushworth wrote about A.I.R. member Jisoo Lee's exhibition Light and Color Plus at the Earlville Opera House Art Galleries.

"Lee, whose seven paintings are in the East Gallery, creates deliberately ambiguous images that suggest, but don't confirm the figure, landscape and parts of the body. The oil on canvas paintings range in size from 24 inches by 36 inches to 48 inches by 60 inches and seem to glow from within, as if backlit by the sun.
Color is the starting point for Lee and she chooses the colors based on the power of their association -- red equals anger, the devil; blue equals melancholy, the ocean. What you see is fine with her. She recognizes that we bring our own interpretations and reactions to the colors and forms before us and the deliberate ambiguity of the images encourages us to use our imaginations.
...

If you would like to read the whole listing, please click here.

Pillow pageant film screening

2011-05-29T14:50:00.000-07:00

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/

Book Party for Attack of the Difficult Poems

2011-05-28T10:34:00.000-07:00

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

Studio visit Simone Meltesen

2011-05-25T09:00:00.000-07:00

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

Studio visit Simone Meltesen

2011-05-25T08:46:00.001-07:00

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.

NANCY AZARA: Rubbings, Tracings & Carvings

2011-05-25T08:36:00.000-07:00

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

No nonessential conversations below 10,000 feet

2011-05-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

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/

Look at you 05

2011-05-21T13:21:00.000-07:00

"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.

Opening new shows

2011-05-20T10:26:00.000-07:00

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

Support Shannon Plumb

2011-05-20T09:27:00.000-07:00

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.

Invitation to open studio

2011-05-20T09:05:00.000-07:00

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."

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

2011-05-18T13:08:00.000-07:00

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

!Women Art Revolution: a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson

2011-05-18T13:02:00.000-07:00

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.

Ann Pachner: Burning Wood Falling Through Endless Night

2011-05-18T11:40:00.000-07:00

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.

All Jokes Aside

2011-05-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

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

Privacy Please!

2011-05-15T08:23:00.000-07:00

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

Press about 'Women x Arts'

2011-05-13T13:30:00.000-07:00

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.

Light and Color +

2011-05-13T13:10:00.000-07:00

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.
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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

i am not a good enough feminist

2011-05-06T12:19:00.000-07:00

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.

After Hours: Murals On The Bowery

2011-05-04T12:14:00.000-07:00

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/.

Benefit Brunch for Japan

2011-05-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

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/.

American Abstract Artists International / 75th Anniversary

2011-05-04T11:33:00.000-07:00

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.

But that is a different story...

2011-05-01T12:43:00.000-07:00

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.

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To read the whole article click HERE.

Four solo shows, one group show

2011-05-01T09:28:00.000-07:00

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.

ROCK STARS: Art and Mineralogy

2011-05-01T09:10:00.000-07:00

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

Art x Women at The Affordable Art Fair

2011-04-28T12:01:00.000-07:00

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

Wish You Were Here 10

2011-04-28T11:56:00.000-07:00

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

News about our fellow, Kira greene

2011-04-22T08:48:00.000-07:00

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.

Boring Stories

2011-04-22T08:32:00.000-07:00

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.

We love Japan and Japan loves US

2011-04-20T13:43:00.000-07:00

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

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

2011-04-16T13:20:00.000-07:00

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.

Nancy Storrow talks about A.I.R. Gallery

2011-04-15T12:33:00.000-07:00

Feminist Fete

2011-04-14T14:41:00.000-07:00

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

5 art stars you need to know

2011-04-13T13:52:00.000-07:00

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.

On Air: The Official Blog of A.I.R. Gallery

Interview with Jan Johnson

Julianna Cerquiera Leite, Galeria Casa Triangulo

Juliana Cerquiera Leite, a 2010-2011 AIR Gallery Fellowship award winner, is working with Galeria Casa Triângulo in São Paulo, Brazil. Casa Triângulo is a pillar of the contemporary art scene in Brazil. Please visit their newly re-designed website for info and images: www.casatriangulo.com

Juliana Cerquiera Leite, a 2010-2011 AIR Gallery Fellowship award winner, is working with Galeria Casa Triângulo in São Paulo, Brazil. Casa Triângulo is a pillar of the contemporary art scene in Brazil. Please visit their newly re-designed website for info and images: www.casatriangulo.com

Julianna Cerquiera Leite, Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide

Juliana Cerqueira Leite, at the Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide. Jane Messenger, the curator, speaks about the works including Juliana's piece 'Up', 'Down'. Click on the link below to watch the short video. http://youtu.be/E3LjKCIOdqQ

Juliana Cerquiera Leite, Waived Gallery

Daria Dorosh and Paddy Johnson on Technology and Art

Jan Johnson, I did not provide the cup

Privacy Please! Curated by Erin Riley-Lopez and Annette Rusin

Arboretum, Barbara Siegel

NY artist Francie Shaw's latest show at A.I.R. reviewed by Eileen Myles

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition

Liz Biddle pictures from her show eARTh

Judith Bernstein's show at The Box

Judith Bernstein Frieze Art Fair

Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Fall Mash-Up

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!

"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

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:

Floral Fractals-- An Interview with artist Gladys Tietz Mercier

REMINDER! OPEN CALL TO WOMEN ARTISTS!

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

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

National Member Phyllis Ewen featured on SouthCoastToday.com!

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

Author Jason Schneiderman poetically responds to Katherine Mann 2012 Fellow

Against Seamlesness: An exhibition by Harmony Hammond

NJCU Visual Arts Gallery presents 365 Days of Print: An Exhibition of Arts Mining Media

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

Check out some of the spectacular events happening through Rutgers!

NY member Louise McCagg Participates in Kocho for DUMBO Arts Festival

NY member JoAnn McFarland opens How to Paint a Picture for DUMBO Arts Festival

Creative Time's Living as Form as the historic Essex Street Market!

OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN ARTISTS!

Columbia Spectator Reviews Joan Snitzer's Current Exhibition - Letters From Home

International Member Eti Esther Naor's Exhibition Opens tonight in Tel Aviv!

ForByFor's September Newsletter

A.I.R. Fellow Einat Imber at the Governor's Island Art Fair

Just a taste of Sweden.. a reflection from Nancy Storrow

Alumnae Linda Kuehne's upcoming solo show at Kean University

SIGN UP & Reserve a spot! ELASTIC CITY: CREEK & VALLEY SHRINES

10 Years and Counting Featured Artist: Regina Granne

Round Robin Collective in Residence at A.I.R. - August 5-28!

Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School visits A.I.R.

SPECIAL PUBLICATION! After Gerhard Richter, A poster project by Joyce Kozloff

Jill Conner Talks about Vestige: Traces of Reality

Blog Review of New York City A.I.R. Gallery Artist Susan Bee and her most recent work

A.I.R. fellow, Sam Vernon, co-directs and co-creates "Intersection"

Carolee Schneemann: A Solo Reading

FUCK WAR!!!

SIGHT unSEEN vol.2

Vestige: Traces of Reality, curated by Jill Conner

Anne Percoco, Field Studies

Wish You Were Here 10

Epic DUMBO Stoop Sale

Construct

Deadline "Illegitimate and Herstorical" extended!

Kira Greene participates in two group shows

Before You Go: With drawings by Susan Bee, dedicated to Emma Bee Bernstein

Interview with Susan Bee by Tom Winchester

Group and Solo show

Bloodsisters

Millenium film screening

'Illegitimate and Herstorical' deadline coming up!

Studio Visit Lottery

Charles Borkhuis on Susan Bee's pop neo-expressionism

Artists take different approaches to light, color in Earlville exhibit

Pillow pageant film screening

Book Party for Attack of the Difficult Poems

Studio visit Simone Meltesen

Studio visit Simone Meltesen

Juliana Cerqueira Leite, at the Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide. Jane Messenger, the curator, speaks about the works including Juliana's piece 'Up', 'Down'. Click on the link below to watch the short video.
http://youtu.be/E3LjKCIOdqQ