Tomorrow: Invisibility to Visibility

from A.I.R. Gallery:

Invisibility to Visibility:
Are Museums Opening Up to Women Artists?

At The Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, March 27, 2pm

A.I.R. Gallery, The Feminist Art Project and The Institute for Women and Art are pleased to announce the panel discussion, Invisibility to Visibility: Are Museums Opening up to Women Artists?, part of a two-panel series, The Issues of the Moment: What is the Future for Women Artists? For the third year, this series considers the most current critical issues and concerns for women artists, and celebrates Women in the Arts during National Women’s History Month.

Introduction by Elizabeth A. Sackler
Panelists: Chrissie Iles, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; David Revere McFadden, Curator, The Museum of Art and Design; Alexandra Schwartz, Coordinator of the Modern Women’s Project at the Museum of Modern Art; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Director of the Sheldon Museum of Art.
Moderated by Ferris Olin, Co-Director, Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers, and Kat Griefen, Director, A.I.R. Gallery.
The panel will be held in the Cantor Auditorium of The Brooklyn Museum and hosted by The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The Brooklyn Museum is located at 200 Eastern Parkway. Free with Museum Admission.

For more information on this panel, including a full press release, please click HERE

This panel series is made possible by The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with A.I.R. Gallery, The Feminist Art Project, and The Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers.

For further information contact A.I.R. Gallery Director, Kat Griefen at 212-255-6651 or kgriefen@airgallery.org .

Opening Tomorrow @ A.I.R.

from A.I.R.:


A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228 Brooklyn, NY 11201
January 6 - 31, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6pm to 8pm

Gallery I: POWER and PRESENCE: Theo Westenberger’s Portraits of Extraordinary Women, Curated by Molly Surno

Gallery II: The Man I Wish I Was, Organized by Kharis Kennedy

Fellowship Gallery: Jee Hwang, I Have Something to Say.

Tomorrow @ A.I.R.: Mother/mother-*

(from A.I.R.)

On Saturday, December 12 from 6-8pm, A.I.R. Gallery will hold a screening, open to the public, of additional video works that augment the selections that comprise the month-long Mother/mother-* exhibition. The films screened on December 12th are a critical component of Mother/mother-*.

The films are: Ilana Rein’s Julie, a documentary shot over the course of seven years and edited in 2008; Marie-Francoise Theodore’s Rebel in the South, a stirring narrative that traces the connection between a contemporary African-American artist and a Georgia sharecropper’s wife lynched in 1915; Emilie Upzak’s Weaning Gideon, documenting the physical changes associated with weaning, and Ingrid Berthon-Moine’s Midriff, a short film comprised entirely of a close-in shot of a woman twanging her tampon string.

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
212-255-6651

This Wednesday @ A.I.R.

(from A.I.R.)

On Wednesday, December 2 from 6-8pm, exhibiting artist Rachel Howfield will facilitate an informal roundtable discussion at A.I.R. Gallery on issues related to being an artist and a parent, as part of the APT (Artist Parents Talking) program, which she founded in the UK. What challenges do you face as an artist parent, what strategies have you developed to overcome them, how can we better support each other? Please come and share in the conversation!


A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
212-255-6651

The Man I Wish I Was

from A.I.R.:

A.I.R. Gallery Presents a New Opportunity for Women Artists:
"THE MAN I WISH I WAS"
A Juried + Invitational Exhibition


EXHIBITION STATEMENT:
In January 2010 A.I.R. Gallery will host "The Man I Wish I Was" a month-long, partially juried, partially invitational exhibition. In keeping with the feminist tradition of irreverent internal-critique and self-vigilance the intent of the show is to question how gender perception relates to personal identity.

We look forward to unanticipated perspectives and encourage an open interpretation of "The Man I Wish I Was."

DEADLINE:
October 2, 2009 at midnight online, 6pm if hand delivery, or postmark October 2 by mail.

ELIGIBILITY:
Any artist worldwide who self-identifies as female may submit original works of art. Collaborations are welcome.

JURORS:
Lauren Ross, Curator and Director of Arts Programs, Friends of the High Line
Kat Griefen, Director, A.I.R. Gallery
Kharis Kennedy, Independent Curator and Artist

SUBMISSION FORMATS: Artists may submit digital images via the online application, or may download a paper application to accompany slides, video or a CD of digital images

ENTRIES:
Complete entries include:
1. Entry form;
2. Four (4) images (including details) OR one three (3) minute video;
3. $20 entry fee

Submissions may be in the form of sketches for incomplete works or images of completed works. The jury will conduct a blind review of applications; therefore, artists must not include names on submission materials, except where indicated.

Please click HERE to apply online or download an entry form.


SCHEDULE:
Deadline for Receipt of Entry: October 2, 2009
Acceptance Notification Date: November 15, 2009
Exhibition Dates: January 6 - January 31, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 7, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm

Please note: A.I.R. Gallery is closed through September 7, 2009. All inquires regarding the application process during this time should be directed to: info@airgallery.org. Inquiries will be responded to on a weekly basis.

tArt at A.I.R. opens tomorrow

tArt at A.I.R.
A.I.R. Gallery
August 1 through August 29, 2009
Opening reception Thursday, August 6th from 6pm to 8pm
Closing reception on Thursday, August 27th from 6pm to 8pm.

tART at AIR includes the work of 35 artists who are part of the tART collective. tART is comprised of 46 emerging women artists nationwide, whose network facilitates dialogue, collaboration, learning and teaching, public engagement, and activism.

This exhibition is, in part, an examination of the Feminist Art Movement's influence on subsequent generations of female artists. While the majority of the work does not reveal feminist content, the exhibition is a cross section of art being made by emerging women artists. The pieces are wide-ranging in genre and materials, not tending towards any specific trend but rather demonstrating the depth and vitality of women artists today. The exhibition is presented “salon” style. The salon tradition provides a rich subject for a contemporary feminist exhibition as it is an inclusive survey of tART members. Historically, “salon style” exhibitions of the 19th Century were surveys of contemporary art that excluded women, minorities and artists working on the fringe.

A.I.R. Gallery and the tART collective are both organizations founded by women with the intention of fostering a strong community and public presence for women in the arts. Both A.I.R. Gallery and tART function as support networks, which continue to strengthen and celebrate women’s roles in the field.

The exhibiting artists are: Liz Ainslie, Jill Auckenthaler, Suzanne Bennett, Monica Carrier, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Laurie Close, Melissa Cowper-Smith, Ann deVere, Maria Dumlao, Madora Frey, Tara Giannini, Rachael Gorchov, Anna Lise Jensen, Elsie Kagan, Katherine Keltner, Selena Kimball, Essye Klempner, Katy Krantz, Katerina Lanfranco, Lisa Lindgren, Rebecca Loyche, Cybele Lyle, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Ilse Murdock, Danielle Mysliwiec, Asya Reznikov, Susan Ross, Carrie Rubinstein, Nikki Schiro, Yasmin Spiro, Melissa Staiger, Rosemary Taylor, Petra Valentova, and Julia Whitney Barnes. For more information about tART, please visit www.tartnyc.org.

Tomorrow: Sarah Pucill Films at Air Gallery

from AIR Gallery:

Monday June 29, 2009, 7pm

AIR Gallery presents an evening of films by Sarah Pucill


AIR Gallery will host British artist photographer and filmmaker Sarah Pucill who will introduce her work and be present for questions. The screening is part of a North American tour where retrospectives of her films will premiere her new film Fall In Frame, 2009, at venues including Anthology Film Archives, NY, MassArt Film Society, Boston, LA Filmforum and Echo Park Film Center, LA and Pleasure Dome Toronto. Her films play with boundaries of self and other, frequently involving mirrors or mirroring, sometimes rigorously formal, other times humorously enamored with the possibilities of light, surfaces, and bodies, while exploring the range of possibilities vested in the camera. Her work has been shown at the Millennium, NY and last year Taking My Skin was exhibited in Mother Cuts at New Jersey University, alongside Mary Kelly, Mona Hatoum and Mieka Bal.

The evening screening will include:
You Be Mother (1990, 7 min., 16mm, color)
Best Experimental Film Award, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany
Best Innovation Award, Atlanta Film Festival, USA
‘Wicked Women and Wayward Girls’, BFI compilation tape, distributed by Connoisseur Video
Milk and Glass (1993, 10 min., 16mm, color)
Taking My Skin (2006, 35 min., 16mm, b&w)
Marion McMahon Award, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (2007)
Fall In Frame (2009, 18 min., 16mm, color)

“The process of making is the starting point for my work, in which space and point of view have been longstanding concerns as has the (female) body…There is an existential element to the slow pacing of the performance that confronts the viewer (and performer) with what it means to be in front of a camera, where the moment is being marked as an image outside of time. This approach to filmmaking runs counter to commercial film techniques, where the actual place of filming (the pro-filmic) is not only not repressed but is brought to the fore as a central characteristic of the film.” – Sarah Pucill