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THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR (SPRING 2011) MAY 4-8, 2011

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:39:42 CDT

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. Artists exhibited include: Sofia Berinstein, Alana Fitzgerald, Jenevieve Reid, Leslie Martinez, Erica Wessmann, Rina Goldfield, Jessica Williams, Sam Vernon, Hannah Herr, Vivian Wong, Krista Anderson and Alexandria Smith.
 

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 

UPCOMING GROUP SHOW: ART & LIES

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:19:04 CDT

Art & Lies features installations, photography, sculpture, video, and collage by six artists: Ryan Frank, R. Justin Stewart, Danielle Durchslag, Sam Vernon, Morgan R. Levy, and Kerry Downey.

HOURS: Wednesday-Sunday, 12p-7p
OPENING PARTY: Friday, April 1, 6-9PM (live music by Rafael Cohen!)
ARTIST TALKBACK: Sunday, April 9
FILM SCREENINGS (co-curated with Kerry Downey!): Wednesdays, April 6 & 13, 7-9PM
April 6: "Here & There" features work about the anxieties of place and time. This evening will feature short films by Kerry Downey, Cybele Lyle, Douglas Paulson, Gordon Sasaki, Lior Shvil, and Jennifer Sullivan.
April 13: "Do Me" showcases work by Kerry Downey, Rebecca Goyette, David Kagen, Jannicke Låker, Tara Mateik, Jennifer Sullivan and Andrew Steinmetz, and Amber Hawk Swanson.

MORE ABOUT THE WORK:
“Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring”, an installation by Ryan Frank, portrays a series of figurative sculptures representing one woman’s struggle with how to present her gender and her transformation from femme to butch. Presented in its NYC debut, is R. Justin Stewart’s “2AM to 2PM”, a 3-D sculptural map of the Minneapolis Bus System. “2AM to 2PM” has previously traveled to the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI, the Mesa Art Center in Mesa, AZ and the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO. Collages by Danielle Durchslag and photographs by Morgan R. Levy will be the only 2-D, wall-mounted work in the show. Durchslag’s portraits of infants collaged from different types of paper depict distress in childhood, while Levy’s large-format composite photographs portray the isolation of the wilderness in Iceland. Kerry Downey’s videos address alienation with dark wit, and Sam Vernon’s work recalls the disparate influences of Kara Walker and Edward Gorey to create a truly haunting environmental installation about violence, race and psychic trauma.

INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST/CURATOR ALDRIN VALDEZ

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:13:07 CDT

DESCRIBE YOUR ART SCHOOL EXPERIENCE 

 

I went to The Cooper Union 2005-2009 during a time of institutional transition before the new, state-of-the-art academic building opened on Third Avenue. Because of the construction, my studio space was in Long Island City my junior and senior year and I think that experience gave me a glimpse of what it would be like to be a young artist in New York after graduation... Read the entire interview here 

 

PRESS RELEASE: UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:10:25 CDT

Sam Vernon, Think On It –Then Lay It Down For Good

March 30 – April 23, 2011

BROOKLYN, NY March 2011 – A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Think On It—Then Lay It Down For Good, an exhibition by Sam Vernon 2010-2011 A.I.R. Fellowship Artist and Emma Bee Bernstein Fellow. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 31, 2011, from 6pm to 8pm. Additionally, A.I.R. Gallery will host “Among Women,” an event organized by Vernon featuring the work of women engaged in literature and activism, on Sunday, April 10, 2011.

Vernon pays homage to the past and revises the traditional ghost story, addressing questions of postcoloniality, racialization, and historical memory. She employs a complex, ongoing integration of drawings in pen and ink, Xerox-copy technology, collage, and installation. Her work is a formal and ideological exploration into polar opposition. By means of the machine, text-inspired images are construed into rich black lines against white pages. She interprets such themes as violence, cultural exile, detachment, womanhood, sexuality, and the psychology of blackness.

For her first solo exhibition, Vernon contextualizes her universe of characterized bodies as actors in a staged drama. The performers consist of an audience of spirit members sleeping, watching, playing and waiting; Clusters and crowds of female figures, ghosts, creatures, and patterns resembling dark clouds form a cheerful celebration of suffering. Emphasizing repetition and abstraction derived from historical narrative, leaves of willow trees swaying, rivers, forests, fields, and the spirit of a monochromatic, archetypal southern landscape unfold.

“A person very dear to me recently suggested that I read Toni Morrison’s essay ‘The Site of Memory’ again,” Vernon says. “I think my work is tied up in Morrison’s words about how the act of imagination is bound up with memory. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” Think On It—Then Lay It Down For Good is longing, fear and memory translated onto fragile sheets. Ghosts congeal and bodies form in dark corners and hang about whispering until the inflection of their voices can be heard among the living.

Sam Vernon graduated from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009 with an award for excellence in drawing. In 2010, Vernon was selected to execute a large-scale mural by the City of New York's Department of Transportation to be installed under the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO, Brooklyn. She is curating a Recent Graduate Exhibition at the Spring 2011 Affordable Art Fair in conjunction with the “Art x Women” project May 4-8. Vernon’s work will be featured in Art & Lies (April 1-14, 2011), a group exhibition curated by Risa Shoup at The Invisible Dog Art Center and this summer, she will exhibit a site-specific installation at the Wassaic Old Hotel. Fall 2011, her work will be on view in Limited Engagement, a group exhibition curated by Krista Saunders at Lesley Heller Workspace. Vernon is currently Development and Marketing Manager of Contemporary Art at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn.

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Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:37:46 CST