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March 7 - 30, 2013
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National and International Artists Exhibition
Frag·ment
Curated by Jill Conner
Frag·ment is an exhibition drawing from the diverse work of twenty women artists, Frag·ment offers a deconstructed perspective for modern life that deftly manueuvers through the themes of desire, memory, geography, and barriers. Curator Jill Conner writes, "Frag·ment showcases new work by the National Memebers of the A.I.R. Gallery who piece together a series of sentiments emering from different areas around the world, that are strikingly identical in their response to the current fast-changing narratives." This exhibition offers a moving survey of contemporary society in the year 2013.
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March 7 - 30, 2013
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A.I.R. Gallery's 40th Anniversary Exhibition
40/40: A Double Vision
Curated by Lilly Wei
40/40: A Double Vision is an exhibition celebrating the past, present, and future of A.I.R. Gallery, as well as women in the arts. In this exhibition, Lilly Wei pairs each of the gallery's New York member-artists with an outside emerging woman artist. Doing what A.I.R. Gallery does best, Wei selects examples of A.I.R. artists' unrestrained artworks and couples them with installations made by up-and-coming artists, providing further opportunities for women to show their work unencumbered by traditional ideas of saleability and gallery art.
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Feb. 7 - March 3, 2013
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Catherine Mosley
New Work
Catherine Mosley presents ten collages in her exhibition New Works. Each piece is composed of hand printed, paper forms and nameable images, mounted on panels. Mosley uses a combination of transparent Mylar and thin Japanese papers to form the collage elements of her work, which include: arms, legs, torsos and full figures amid signs of pools and raindrops.
New Works
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Are We Where Yet?
Organized by Leila Daw and Elisabeth Munro Smith
Are We Where Yet? is an exhibition that explores sense of place, while mapping passages and connections to culture and community. In this show, ten mid-career artists with ongoing interests in: geography, ecology, and climatology offer multiple perspectives on important concepts. Chosen from across the United States, the artists in this exhibition are exhibiting small works embodying large perspectives. Their artwork spans a wide variety of media, including: painting, drawing, stitching, photography, digital prints, sculpture, collage/assemblage, and works on and of paper.
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Hanna Smith Allen
Battlegrounds
Battlegrounds includes a series of photographs that picture the implements and landscapes of war, as well as an installation of military targets fabricated from acrylic mirror. This exhibition brings three distinct imaging strategies into a single space in order to reflect on how we see and represent war. In this exhibition, Allen presents images of iconic military objects stripped of their wartime context as well as reproductions of battlefields originally sourced from media outlets, such as newspapers, slide lectures, history books, and the internet. By photographing preexisting images of battlefields, Allen shows us how our own perception of war is mediated through photography.
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Jan. 10 - Feb. 3, 2013
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Detours of the Possible
the Montréal / Brooklyn Exchange Event
Montréal/Brooklyn is a contemporary art event built on the meeting of the two cities. Grouped into pairs, institutions from each side of the border curated exhibits, where artworks from Montréal and Brooklyn-based artists truly engaged with one another.
In the context of this exchange, Julie Lohnes, Saada El-Akhrass and Marie-Josée Parent of Les Territoires collaborated to create The Detours of the Possible. This exhibition invited the public to unleash its imagination onto tales assembled by eight women artists. Each artist encouraged viewers, to participate in a universe made-up of micro-fictions. The artists allowed for the creation of new realities and the realization of utopian ideals permitted us to create meaning and make new sense of our lives.
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Ivy Dachman
Untitled (Recent Paintings)
In her fourth solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery, Ivy Dachman is showing a series of small gouaches on board, as well as her newest abstract paintings, constructed of charcoal, oil and wax on canvas. In Untitled (Recent Paintings), Dachman’s content originates from the psyche, as she employs a vast array of uniquely intuitive and visceral forms. Her primarily vertical arrangements present a unique abstraction rarely seen in traditional figure-ground compositions.
Untitled (Recent Paintings)
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Jessie Henson
A Million Lost Hours
A Million Forgotten Hours is an installation of sculptures made of stainless steel and found objects mimicking explosions of stars. These works focus on the tiny, abandoned, or neglected things of childhood - marbles and bouncy balls - and freezes them in mid-throw.
Sourced from such places as eBay, second hand stores, the artist's own collection, and a defunct doll factory in Germany, this repurposing is both playful and haunting. Welded steel armatures create lines that swoop through space, holding up these small gems of bright color.
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Dec. 6, 2012 - Jan. 5, 2013
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The A.I.R. Gallery 10th Biennial:
36 Cats and one stripe pussy
Curated by Ingrid Schaffner
36 Cats and one stripe pussy, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, was an exhibition of work by thirty-six women artists from the United States and abroad of diverse backgrounds. The exhibition's curator, wrote: “Is there something inherently Feminist about the juried exhibition? As a juror/curator you start with a vast number of different kinds of work submitted through an open call that is further democratized by having no names or other signifying clues as to an artist’s identity, origin, or affiliation. Destabilizing and potentially productive, this process allows the curator to operate free of dominant paradigms and values. Of course, the fact that all of the artists in the A.I.R. Biennial are women is far less compelling than the imaginative power and politics of inclusion and disruption that continue to make Feminism such a formidable cultural force.”
The A.I.R. Gallery 10th Biennial
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Nov. 4 - Dec. 2, 2012
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Ann Schaumburger
New Paintings
Ann Schaumburger's past fascination with the iconic Shaker house structure has generated a doppelganger in her most recent Flashe on canvas paintings. Constructed from ten different shapes, Schaumburger's houses act as scaffolding for her investigation of color interaction.
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Judy Cooper
A.I.R. Pioneers
In Coopers' full series of twenty-four portraits, she features nineteen of the gallery's original founders and five members who joined the gallery in the first few years. "These artists like to call themselves the A.I.R. Pioneers," Cooper comments. "Pioneers is in fact a good term to describe all of these women who have had such a profound and lasting influence on the status of women in the world of art. They boldly led the way for us to follow."
A.I.R. Pioneers
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Naho Taruishi
Film Drawings
Film Drawing is a series of seven diagrammatic drawings based on selected black and white films. For this new body of work, Taruishi uses the content of films, their visual sequences, metaphors, historical references, and other cinematic techniques to structure unique drawn images. The gestures in her drawings frame the memories formed while watching these films. As a result, Taruishi's abstract, systematized rawings articulate specific durations of time and resonate the complex architecture of each film.
Film Drawings
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October 4 - 28, 2012
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Nancy Morrow
Shift
Shift is an exhibition of original encaustic and mixed media paintings and works on paper that take a revisionist look at women in the workforce. Morrow, who has had a diverse number of jobs herself, creates a wry, stream of consciousness type survey that runs the gamut from traditionally male dominated trades and upper level corporate management positions, to scientific research, food services and more.
Shift
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Barbara Grinell
New Paintings
Barbara Grinell's paintings speak of moonlight and storms, showing mountain peaks and winter mists. Her work reflects the feeling of solitude and the power of the natural world around us. IN her time as an artist, Grinell has seen how change, uncertainty, and loss can govern life.
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Daria Dorosh
DEEP play: Imaginary realms and comfort objects
In DEEP play, her 20th one-person exhibition, Daria Dorosh revisits the magical landscape of childhood, and takes us back to the beginning 0 to touch, to play, to imagine. The sixteen textile sculptures are described as comfort objects, or toys for grown-ups. Each one is installed on its own shelf and an be picked up by the gallery visitor. They are accompanied by 16 digital prints that situate the sculpture in 19th century illustrations to contrast the romantic dreamscapes of the past with our own.
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September 6 - 30, 2012
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Jisoo Lee
Light and Color
The pleasures of Lee's current paintings derive in part from the elusiveness of the imagery and the evocative tensions between neutral forms and pornographic intimations. The lush surfaces and refined brushwork waver between illusion and reality. The complex colors and modulated tonalities create imagery that is deliberately evasive yet effortlessly radiate enigmatic charm.
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Marie Sivak
Smokescreen
In Smokescreen Marie Sivak explores the use of language as a form of psychological warfare. In Sivak's intense works of meticulously carved stone, the use of language as a smoke screen to obscure intention finds an additional layer of meaning. Sivak embeds video imagery into her stone objects, which become specters of human dramas.
Smokescreen Press Release
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Sylvia Netzer
Whorl
In Netzer's handmade, medium sized ceramic sculptures are active, energetic, abstract forms, which allude to ganglia and their synaptic leaps through lunging, thrusting, stretching movements. They have skins of saturated color and exist somewhere in the space between abstraction and the figural. Their languid, undulating coils reference tentacles or limbs, which deliberate their next action.
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June 21 - July 15, 2012
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Julie Lohnes
Anomalistic Revolution
Anomalistic Revolution was conceived and curated by A.I.R.’s accomplished new director Julie Lohnes, and features the work of 18 A.I.R Gallery artists. The theme reflects a celebration of the gallery’s past, present and future engagement with innovation and revolution both individual and collective. Of the exhibition, curator Lohnes writes: “Individually each artist has established a studio practice and maintained a commitment to the arts for over twenty years, and in some cases for over forty, in order to contemplate visual concerns and to create art works that reflect her own viewpoint. Each art work is unique and this exhibition revels in this personal search, staged in private for some, in public by others, and celebrates each metaphysical revolution made.”
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Bang Geul Han
Baguette Hell
Playing on the word “bagatelle” (meaning a trifling or inconsequential thing), Baguette Hell features a series of interactive iPad and iPhone apps toying with images of its namesake French bread. Reminiscent of Dadaist exercises, the apps are seemingly impractical or pointless, but are also playful and delightfully strange. Han's interactive project directs our attention to the simultaneously virtual yet tactile, intimate yet global, subjective and interpersonal relationships and spaces emerging from “app culture”. Viewers will be able to interact with the apps in the gallery and ultimately download them from Apple's App Store.
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Wish You Were Here 11
Wish You Were Here 11 includes original works by more than 300 artists. The 4” x 6” artworks, as well as diptychs and triptychs based on this size, are created and donated by hundreds of national and international artists including A.I.R. Gallery artists. These cards range widely in style and media and encompass a broad spectrum of themes. Each card is signed and dated, often with a message from the artist to the collector.
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May 24 - June 17, 2012
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Kathleen Schneider
Recent Works
The sculpture and works on paper in this exhibition extend the imagery and materials Schneider employed in earlier pieces from her Petals and Wings series. Each piece easily identifies as a relatives of her paper warplane installations, exploded bouquet clusters, and gridded helicopters from 2009-10. Yet the work in this exhibition has a newfound levity of content and luminosity of material facilitated by Schneider’s introduction of manipulated sheet aluminum.
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Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin
Trees of Life
Trees of Life features photographs of selected trees that have inspired Ginsburgh Hofkin because of their quality of mystery, sense of grace, or depiction of the struggle between permanence and the fleeting moment. A sense of the primordial is articulated through the use of black and white infrared materials. These photographs, with their emphasis on the contrast between highlight and shadow, illustrate the tension between stability and struggle. The delicate balance depicted in these images serves as a metaphor for things unseen but nonetheless intuited, mirroring the fragility of life.
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Aimee Burg
vault
We now live in the era that speculative fiction authors imagined as “the future”. We have unprecedented access to information, but profound uncertainty about its actual truthfulness or benefit. vault investigates the disorienting possibilities of removing meaning from knowledge-packed imagery, i.e. science diagrams and test patterns. Burg’s objects and images are stripped of purpose; this simplicity provides a sense of safety. The viewer is at ease despite being surrounded by the unknown.
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April 26 - May 20, 2012
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Carolyn Martin
Private Corners
Continuing the investigations begun in drawings exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery in 2009, Carolyn Martin has further de-emphasized the image of the white picket fence, reducing it to a spare scaffolding of faint lines, darkened just enough to be recognizable. Martin juxtaposes these horizontal and vertical lines against irregular shapes of collaged paper crisscrossed in all directions with dark, smeared charcoal strokes that create "deep" spaces. In these spaces Martin gives us a glimpse of the complexity and chaos of human life behind the stable architecture of society.
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Jeanette May and Jocelyn Chase
Creature Features
Responding to the recent popular fascination with depictions of crime scenes, forensics, and surgically altered bodies, Jeanette May and Jocelyn Chase create seductively creepy representations of the macabre. Their photographs of staged murders and dissected flesh call attention to our society’s obsession with mortality. Both artists masterfully instill subtle humor into each image, producing photographs that are simultaneously disturbing and whimsical.
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Einat Imber
Continental Drift
Continental Drift features six tortoises, roaming haphazardly through a natural habitat contained within a globe-shaped structure. As in a museum diorama, a panoramic landscape is painted on the inner walls, continuing the topography of rocks, dirt and plants that cover the ground. Each tortoise carries on its back a model of one of the earth's continents, resuming its mythical role of bearing the world atop its round shell.
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March 28 - April 21, 2012
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Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows
An exhibit by the National and International Artists of A.I.R Gallery
Curated by Catherine J. Morris
Artists:
Kate Ali
Judy Cooper
Leigh Craven
Phyllis Ewen
Melissa Furness
Terry Gips
Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin
Nicole Jacquard
Jan Johnson
Julia Kim Smith
K.A. Letts
Gladys Tietz Mercier
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Nancy Morrow
Esther Naor
Ardine Nelson
Meghan Quinn
Belle Shafir
Marie Sivak
Erin Wiersma
As A.I.R. Gallery celebrates four decades of supporting women artists, Morris continues by stating, “It is clear that the glue that holds this group together is a commitment to A.I.R. Gallery – and, by extension, a dedication to the social, cultural, and political priorities that A.I.R. represents. The women who have contributed to, built, fostered and guided A.I.R. Gallery for forty years do not constitute a movement or school with all that those art historical designations imply. Instead, what I see in them is a cohesive and vitally important social force with a unique commitment to a joint cultural and political mission.” The bedfellows become strange when one tries, unnecessarily, to fit a diverse group of artists into a framework that could not truly hold them. “A celebration is much more fitting, and is certainly in the spirit of an institution that for forty years has supported, sustained and advocated for women artists.”
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February 29 - March 24, 2012
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Liz Surbeck Biddle
ALIENZ
This exhibition continues Biddle’s interest in ceramics with a twist of humor found in much of her work. Collage and drawing have always been an integral part of her oeuvre and here she focuses on creatures that could be from outer space or the inner recesses of our minds. In the same spirit of scavenging used in her assemblage/installations, many of the shapes and objects in the collages are culled from a wide variety of sources: photographs, images from the web and scraps of drawing.
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Regina Granne
Liberty
The works featured in Liberty began with small onsite colored pencil and graphite drawings of the Statue of Liberty from New York City’s west side waterfront. The Statue of Liberty is framed by the shifting New York sky with its billowing clouds and placid waters, a landscape masterfully achieved with subtle lines and tender blends of brown, blue, green, pink, and orange. In almost all of the work Liberty is diminished, overwhelmed by the sky. Like the images in past work, Granne does not editorialize and we are left to decide what this might mean.
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Katherine Tzu-Ian Mann
Root
Katherine Mann's new paintings show patterned, highly wrought, decorative elements coalescing from the chaos
and contingency of an organic environment --and dissolving into that environment again. The large paintings in Root, created by combining chance stains with highly rendered decorative elements on oversized, un-stretched paper, function as human-sized portholes into a landscape alive with minute details, patterns and interlocking systems.
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February 1 - 25, 2012
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Jeanette May
Bachelor Pads
Inspired by 1960s movies and magazine spreads highlighting the phenomenon of the “bachelor pad,” Jeanette
May stages the contemporary bachelor in his metropolitan dwelling. The original bachelor pads were
conspicuously heterosexual and masculine in design—filled with the latest gadgets and signifiers of hedonistic
pleasure. May's photographs examine whether the current version evolved or if the reel-to-reel sound systems
were merely swapped for iPod stations and large screen TVs. The pad may define one's economic or cultural
standing, provide refuge, or seduce potential lovers. May's images raise these issues while offering a voyeuristic
peek into the private living space of single men.
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Jane Swavely
New Work
New Work features pastel drawings and oil paintings of vibrant and visceral landscapes. Swavely juxtaposes cinematic quick cuts of landscape against panoramic shots, building tension in each piece. She uses the horizontal and vertical space to collapse literal interpretation. Swavely captures the transient moment, the changing tide of light, tonal values of deepening color and shadow, and the volume of space and depth.
The pastel drawings and paintings in the show are studies based on actual as well as imagined places. Whether on the water, in the mountains, a seascape or a landscape recalled, she is interested in exploring and doing justice to the transient. Though her pastels are works in their own right, they are also rough drafts and studies for the larger paintings in the exhibition. There are recurrent themes that have to do with building space, filtering light, and exploring color.
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Annie Ewaskio
FUTURESCAPES
FUTURESCAPES investigates the disorienting possibilities of a world that is not presently ours. Ewaskio’s images continue the tradition of Western landscape painting while posing questions about the longevity of our terrain. The work is made simultaneously with fascination and repulsion, associating pure beauty with its potentially poisonous origins. An acid rainbow arcs over a behemoth structure fracturing in decay. Florescent sunrises gleam through atmospheric smog, while tiny figures reference icon worship and pilgrimage. Cityscapes morph into a cloudy, starry sky. Using a bright, fresh hand, Ewaskio pairs oil paint’s unrivalled qualities with a contemporary take on landscape painting, and asks us to consider what will be our world to come.
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January 5 - January 28, 2012
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Regine Romain
Portraits of a Self Determining Haiti
Portraits for Self Determining Haiti is an exhibition of vibrant photographs of Haiti, three weeks after the 7.0 earthquake that killed more than half a million people. Elemental themes of faith, dignity, honor and respect are keenly displayed. The title is inspired by a series of essays published by The Nation in 1920 entitled "Self-Determining Haiti" written by James Weldon Johnson, a journalist, lyricist, and renowned civil rights leader of Haitian heritage.
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Katsura Okada
The Re-Origin: After the Last First
Katsura Okada draws inspiration from “all experiences - happiness, sadness, anger, pain, beauty and ugliness all influence my work and mature my mind, to be expressed perhaps ten years later.” The Re-Origin: After the Last First specifically contemplates the effects of nuclear weapons and radioactive contamination on Japan. Playing with light, color, and textural sensitivity, Okada describes The Re-Origin: After the Last First as a kind of prayer for the health and safety of the people of Japan and people all over the world, and as expressive of her hopes – that the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare will be the last “first.”
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Illegitimate And Herstorical
Curated by Emily Roysdon
Illegitimate And Herstorical presents works by eleven artists that consider alternative economies of labor, love, power, crossings and collectivity. Exhibiting queer relationships to history and a healthy disrespect for master narratives these artists work through the precariousness of legitimacy. The projects displayed offer a telling that bridges reportage and creative proposition. Portraiture, consciousness raising, incitement, and insertion – poetic and effectual strategies that all come to bear on the stability and functionality of institutions. Each work a stone thrown. Illegitimate and Herstorical.
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