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| A.I.R. Gallery April 28 – May 23, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6pm to 8pm |
| Gallery I: Kathleen Schneider, Petals and Wings Gallery II: Feeling What No Longer Is, Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu Fellowship Gallery: Kira Greene, feastiality |
Gallery I: Kathleen Schneider, Petals and Wings
The works in Petals and Wings continue Schneider's engagement with locating gesture and movement (implied action, stopped-action) in
sculptures that are discrete, hand-made, self-contained, and still. Five new sculptural pieces feature “equal and opposing actions happening at
the same time” and embody the characteristics of simultaneity. Each work in the exhibition fluctuates, in materials and meaning, between the
recognizable and the abstract. A large wall assemblage, several hanging spherical clusters, and four framed splashes of color - poised
throughout the gallery in dynamic equilibrium - could as easily be described as a large wing, two giant “bouquets “, and four floral “still lives.”
Kathleen Schneider lives in Winooski, Vermont and New York City, makes her work in both places, and is a Professor of Sculpture at the
University of Vermont. Solo and group exhibitions include DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton,
NJ; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington; American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York. Awards and Residencies include Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY and the Vermont Art Council.
The works in Petals and Wings continue Schneider's engagement with locating gesture and movement (implied action, stopped-action) in
sculptures that are discrete, hand-made, self-contained, and still. Five new sculptural pieces feature “equal and opposing actions happening at
the same time” and embody the characteristics of simultaneity. Each work in the exhibition fluctuates, in materials and meaning, between the
recognizable and the abstract. A large wall assemblage, several hanging spherical clusters, and four framed splashes of color - poised
throughout the gallery in dynamic equilibrium - could as easily be described as a large wing, two giant “bouquets “, and four floral “still lives.”
Kathleen Schneider lives in Winooski, Vermont and New York City, makes her work in both places, and is a Professor of Sculpture at the
University of Vermont. Solo and group exhibitions include DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton,
NJ; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington; American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York. Awards and Residencies include Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY and the Vermont Art Council.
Gallery II: Feeling What No Longer Is, Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu
This exhibit was selected as part of the first OPEN A.I.R. series of exhibitions organized by talented, emerging curators.
Feeling what no longer is begins with a moment, an experience, or a person from the past as it is reimagined in the present. The artists selected
for this exhibition use memory as material and subject in their work, suggesting the interior dialogues these women have had, conversations
imagined and experienced with those missing and present. The artists reference personal and cultural histories that document loss and longing,
loneliness and community.
Eleanor Antin and Elaine Angelopoulos reinvent their personal histories, creating new personas by exploring existing archetypes of femininity.
They create fictitious memories based on mythology, familial experience, research and imagination. Doris Salcedo and Kata Mejía memorialize
the absent and deceased in their work, commemorating the tragedies in their home country, Colombia. Infused by mythological and literary
references, while touching upon personal experiences, the works on paper of Elena del Rivero reflect on the passage of time, the precarious
nature of communication and the interior world of an author and artist alone in one’s studio. In the work of Sophia Petrides, enigmatic forms,
glimpses of otherworldly spaces and sections of architecture appear. Her photographs hint at the familiar, but are layered with unsettling
juxtapositions and transformations. Sophie Calle’s work suggests the concepts of recollection, the anticipation of loss and art as a means to
document and process the inevitable absence.
About the Curator: Serra Sabuncuoglu is a curator, gallerist and artist living in New York City. Her current body of work explores themes of
relationships, remembrances, and the missing manifested in works on paper and performative dialogues. In her work, private images and
gestures become artifacts of experiences and interactions.
Top image on card: Eleanor Antin, The Ballerina and the Poet, 1986. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
This exhibit was selected as part of the first OPEN A.I.R. series of exhibitions organized by talented, emerging curators.
Feeling what no longer is begins with a moment, an experience, or a person from the past as it is reimagined in the present. The artists selected
for this exhibition use memory as material and subject in their work, suggesting the interior dialogues these women have had, conversations
imagined and experienced with those missing and present. The artists reference personal and cultural histories that document loss and longing,
loneliness and community.
Eleanor Antin and Elaine Angelopoulos reinvent their personal histories, creating new personas by exploring existing archetypes of femininity.
They create fictitious memories based on mythology, familial experience, research and imagination. Doris Salcedo and Kata Mejía memorialize
the absent and deceased in their work, commemorating the tragedies in their home country, Colombia. Infused by mythological and literary
references, while touching upon personal experiences, the works on paper of Elena del Rivero reflect on the passage of time, the precarious
nature of communication and the interior world of an author and artist alone in one’s studio. In the work of Sophia Petrides, enigmatic forms,
glimpses of otherworldly spaces and sections of architecture appear. Her photographs hint at the familiar, but are layered with unsettling
juxtapositions and transformations. Sophie Calle’s work suggests the concepts of recollection, the anticipation of loss and art as a means to
document and process the inevitable absence.
About the Curator: Serra Sabuncuoglu is a curator, gallerist and artist living in New York City. Her current body of work explores themes of
relationships, remembrances, and the missing manifested in works on paper and performative dialogues. In her work, private images and
gestures become artifacts of experiences and interactions.
Top image on card: Eleanor Antin, The Ballerina and the Poet, 1986. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Fellowship Gallery: Kira Greene, feastiality
Kira Greene’s recent paintings blend images of lusciously styled food with patterns associated with women in both Eastern and Western culture.
The results of this juxtaposition are conceptual self-portraits that represent the plurality and multiplicity of Greene’s identity as an Asian
immigrant woman in America. The paradoxes and contradictions that characterize women’s lives – particularly, immigrant women’s lives – inform
Greene’s pairings of disparate elements in her paintings.
Kira Greene graduated from the School of Visual Arts, NY, with a MFA degree in 2004. Greene has shown extensively in group exhibitions in
San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong. Green is a 2009-10 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow. This is her first solo show in New York.
Kira Greene’s recent paintings blend images of lusciously styled food with patterns associated with women in both Eastern and Western culture.
The results of this juxtaposition are conceptual self-portraits that represent the plurality and multiplicity of Greene’s identity as an Asian
immigrant woman in America. The paradoxes and contradictions that characterize women’s lives – particularly, immigrant women’s lives – inform
Greene’s pairings of disparate elements in her paintings.
Kira Greene graduated from the School of Visual Arts, NY, with a MFA degree in 2004. Greene has shown extensively in group exhibitions in
San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong. Green is a 2009-10 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow. This is her first solo show in New York.
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