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AIR Gallery
A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence) is the first all female artists cooperative gallery in the United States. It was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists during a time in which the works shown at commercial galleries in New York City were almost exclusively by male artists. A.I.R. is a not-for-profit, self-underwritten arts organization, with a board of directors made up of its New York based artists. The gallery was originally located in SoHo at 97 Wooster Street, and was located on 111 Front Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn until 2015. In May 2015, A.I.R. Gallery moved to its current location at 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. A.I.R. is a non-profit organization that aims to show the diversity and artistic talent of women, to teach, to challenge stereotypes of female artists, and to subvert the historically male-dominated commercial gallery scene, with the overall hope to serve as an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoHo
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century. The area was developed from farmland by Henry VIII in 1536, when it became a royal park. It became a parish in its own right in the late 17th century, when buildings started to be developed for the upper class, including the laying out of Soho Square in the 1680s. St Anne's Church was established during the late 17th century, and remains a significant local landmark; other churches are the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory and St Patrick's Church in Soho Square. The aristocracy had mostly moved away by the mid-19th century, when Soho was particularly badly hit by an outbreak of cholera in 1854. For much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and its location for the headquarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Carlson
Cynthia Carlson (born 1942) is an American visual artist, living and working in New York. Personal life and education Carlson was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Kelvyn Park High School in Chicago and then attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her BFA in 1965. She moved to New York City and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, graduating with her MFA in 1967. She is married to Robert Gino Bertoletti. Career In the 1960s, Carlson's art was influenced by the work of The Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists artists in Chicago. During the 1970s, she was a pioneer of the "Pattern and Decoration" group in New York City, in which the Feminist movement played an important role. Mainly a painter, her work has evolved within a number of different stylistic concerns including installation, sculpture, and public art commissions. Carlson's career has included nine solo museum exhibitions: ''Homage to the Academy Building'', Pennsylvania Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria Smith
Alexandria Smith is an American mixed media visual artist based in London and New York City. She is currently the head of painting at the Royal College of Art. Smith was a co-organizer of the collective Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter from 2016 to 2017. The collective, which consists of over 100 black women artists, held a public event at the New Museum in NYC in 2016. Smith was quoted as saying, "I was in the company of women who wanted to use their gifts to instigate change, to let our humanity be seen and heard despite what others may believe. I know our work is not done and that this collective will continue to bring about healing and work against the grain in other iterations at other institutions. I look forward to continuing to help carry that torch. Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter has re-instilled in me a belief in our abilities as Black women artists to be nurturing, compassionate, genuine, and powerful by any means necessary." Smith earned her BFA i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Marzec
Amelia Marzec (born 1980) is an American Interactive Artist based in New York City. Art Marzec's work explores the effects that various technologies (particularly telecommunications) and the social conditions that surround them have on aspects of our interpersonal relationships such as privacy, intimacy, and publicity. She has frequently cited her experience of losing hearing in one ear, as well as her experience working inside a media giant compromised by the PRISM (surveillance program), PRISM program (AOL, America Online) as formative. Career Marzec received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Parsons The New School for Design, Parsons School of Design. Her work has been exhibited at Flux Factory, New York Hall of Science, Governor's Island, MIT, SIGGRAPH, and the DUMBO Arts Festival. She has been awarded a residency at Eyebeam (organization), Eyebeam, the A.I.R. Gallery E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Farmer
Rachel Farmer (born in Provo, Utah, 1972) is an American artist. She is primarily known for her ceramic sculpture and installations. Farmer's work explores Mormon history from a feminist and queer perspective, and is informed by her roots in the Utah area. Education Farmer received a BFA from Brigham Young University in 1995, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997. Work Farmer's work re-imagines history with a focus on the lives of women. Her small clay figurines enact gestures and roles that give life to the often invisible story of women. Her work has been described as "personal and meditative" and as "transforming traditional narratives of ancestry". Farmer's multimedia installations often incorporate photography, video, and textile arts. In her solo exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Farmer created quilts for her installation using techniques learned as a child. She hosted several quilting bees in the making of the qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Vernon
Sam Vernon (born 1987) is an installation and performance artist. She works in various media to create her artwork, including sculpture, paintings and photographs. She is interested in "honor ngthe past while revising historical memory" through works that explore her own personal identity. Several of her art pieces also convey a certain narrative, and this is done through Vernon's various Xerox drawings. Early life Sam Vernon was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended Suitland High School. Education Sam Vernon earned her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2009 and her MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Yale School of Art in 2015. Career Vernon was included in the 2013 group exhibition ''Pattern Recognition'' at MoCADA. In 2016 she presented the large installation ''How Ghosts Sleep (Seattle)'' at the Seattle Art Museum in 2016. She contributed to Jeffrey Deitch's 2016 ''Coney Art Walls'' project. In September 2016, Vernon presented the installation ''Rage Wave'' in a partner program betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Juliana Cerqueira Leite (born 1981) is a Brazilian sculptor based in New York, known for creating large-scale works that explores the physical presence of the human body. She is considered to push the boundaries of sculpture. Life and education Leite (pronounced: ˈleɪt͡ʃˌɘ) was born and grew up in Brazil and studied sculpture in the United Kingdom at Chelsea College of Arts, graduating with an Master of Fine Arts, MFA in sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She then undertook an Master of Arts, MA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, Camberwell College of Art. Artwork Leite's artwork often combines performance and sculpture. The sculptural materials she uses are wide-ranging and include: hydrocal, FGR-95, plaster, Glass fiber, glass fibre, steel, and pigment. To create her artworks, Leite often makes casts from clay, using her own body and movement to develop forms. Leite has also produced site specific and video installation works. Leite has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Nam Greene
Kira Nam Greene is a New York-based painter known for combining ethnographic imagery, meticulous realism, and layered patterns. Greene has expressed her commitment to painting as a way to explore feminism, materialism, and beauty. Biography Greene was born in Seoul, Korea and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Prior to becoming an artist, Greene earned her PhD in Political Science from Stanford University and a degree in International Relations from Seoul National University. Career Greene has exhibited at Sheldon Museum of Art, Muskegon Museum of Art, Brown University, Salisbury University, Wave Hill, Bronx Museum of Art, Noyes Museum, A.I.R. Gallery, Accola Griefen Gallery, Lodge Gallery, Kiechel Fine Art and Jane Lombard Gallery. She has also been a visiting artist and lectured at the Brooklyn Museum, Maryland Institute College of Art, Union College, Salisbury University, SFAI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Broughel
Suzanne Broughel is a multidisciplinary American artist based in New York City. Her work examines whiteness as a racialized identity. Education Broughel received a BFA from Hunter College in 1999, and an MFA from Hunter College in 2003. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2008. Recognition Broughel has been the recipient of many awards, residencies and grants, including a Create Change Fellowship from the Laundromat Project, a Fellowship in Sculpture from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and an AIR Gallery Fellowship. Her work has been discussed in the ''New York Times'', ''Hyperallergic'', ''Block Magazine'', ''HYCIDE Magazine'', and the '' PS1'' Newspaper, among others. Exhibitions Broughel has had solo exhibitions at AIR Gallery, the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, the Jones Gallery at the University of Memphis, Trailer Park Projects in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the York Fine Arts Gallery at CUNY. She has been included in group exhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damali Abrams
Damali Abrams (born in Guyana) is a Guyanese-American video-performance artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for the ''Self-Help TV'', an ongoing video-performance project using her own body to examine issues of self-improvement, race, class and gender. Career Abrams graduated New York University as a Bachelor of Arts in 2001 and obtained a master's degree in fine arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. Her work has been exhibited at galleries including The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC Rotunda Gallery and the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Teaching and workshops Abrams has led classes at Barbados Community College, the Grenada National Museum, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College School of Social Work, SUNY Purchase, Syracuse University’s 601 Tully and at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. Awards * 2009–10: A.I.R. Fellowship Recipient Residencie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enid Crow
Enid Crow (born 1968), is an American feminist artist who is best known for the Disaster Series, a series of self-portrait photographs. She has had solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery (NYC), Holocene (Portland), and Constance Art Gallery (Iowa). Her photographs have been published in Venus Zine, riffRAG, 24/7, Altar. From 1991-1992, she was a member of Johannes Birringer's dance theatre company—AlienNation Co. -- in Chicago, Illinois. From 1997 to 2000 she studied Noh drama in Japan. Since 2005, she has performed with Justin Duerr in the self-described lo-fi craft pop band the Vivian Girls Experience, based on the work of artist Henry Darger. Education Crow has degrees from multiple universities. She studied at the State University of New York at Geneseo where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in Dramatic Arts. Next, she did her graduate studies in theater and performance at Northwestern University. Interestingly, Crow also has multiple degrees in fields unrelated to art and pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diyan Achjadi
Diyan Achjadi is a Vancouver-based printmaker, drawer and animator whose practice explores themes of cross-culture imaginings, influences and contaminations. She was born in Jakarta, Indonesia to a West-Javanese father and English-Canadian mother. Early life and education As a child and teen Achjadi lived in Hong Kong, London, Jakarta and Washington, DC before moving to New York for ten years. Her formative years involved navigating different educational, political and cultural systems, which influenced her art work. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union (New York, NY) and an MFA from Concordia University (Montreal, QC). After teaching at the University of Maryland, she moved to Vancouver in 2005. She has exhibited her work in galleries and film festivals across Canada and beyond. Career Diyan Achjadi is currently an Associate Professor of Print Media at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, BC. Art Achjadi's work explores cross-cultural narratives thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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