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TODAY is the final day of Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair. Don't miss your chance to purchase artists' books from A.I.R. Gallery, including New York Artist Jane Swavely's Dirty Book #1 (2020) and Dirty Book #2" (2020). Swavely's aim is to create a place of space and light which inspires a shift in perception; a place that is at once familiar and unfamiliar. Although her work depicts abstracted forms and colors, it is based in the landscape tradition, exploring t...he boundary between the conscious and the subconscious, deriving inspiration from both the natural environment and supernatural forces. Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVABF) ends today! This is Printed Matter’s first art book fair in the virtual sphere, presenting more than 400 exhibitions from over 40 countries. Head to airgallery.cargo.site to check out Jane's books and the other publications from A.I.R. artists. Jane Swavely’s work is in public and private collections including Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Allentown Art Museum. She studied at Boston University and the School of Visual Arts and was the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Previously represented by CDS Gallery, she is currently a member of A.I.R Gallery where her most recent solo show, Jinx, took place in November 2018. She lives and works in New York City. #JaneSwavely #PMVABF #PMVABF2021 #PrintedMatter #AIRgallery See more

Susan Stainman, A.I.R. NY member artist, is presenting her Utopic Moments Deck during Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair now through tomorrow (Sunday)! The Utopic Moments Deck is a deck of cards designed by Stainman that has a suggested action on each card. The cards encourage the user to try the suggested actions. On the deck’s cover, Stainman asks, What if utopia was experienced in tiny moments at a time, banal, ideal moments, on an internal and interpersonal lev...el? Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVABF) takes place February 25-28, 2021. This is Printed Matter’s first art book fair in the virtual sphere, presenting more than 400 exhibitions from over 40 countries. Go to http://airgallery.cargo.site for more! Susan Stainman is an interdisciplinary artist, working in sculpture, installation, and social practice. Her current body of work investigates landscapes of utopia as they intersect with her Buddhist meditation practice. Rather than places and ideas of intangible perfection, Stainman posits, utopias are moments of complete presence to our internal and external reality, akin to the Buddhist idea of natural mind, or buddhanature. From this vantage point, we are able to step into a brighter, more whole future reality. #SusanStainman #PMVABF #PMVABF2021 #PrintedMatter #AIRgallery See more

A.I.R. NY artist member Joan Snitzer is showing her books Starry Night and One Line now through Sunday during Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair! Starry Night and One Line highlight Snitzer's method, a systematic layering of photographic ink, water, vinyl, and oil-based paint, that produces lively representations of spaces without rendering a natural or actual object, figure, or scene. The resulting compositions retain the appearance of beauty at once familiar a...nd completely ethereal, offering an atmosphere in which viewers are encouraged to contemplate the natural and fabricated worlds. Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVABF) takes place now through Sunday, February 28, 2021. This is Printed Matter’s first art book fair in the virtual sphere, presenting more than 400 exhibitions from over 40 countries. This fair is structured as a network of interlocking, custom built web exhibitions. Each PMVABF exhibitor will present an individualized website where visitors will have the chance to view works and interact with exhibiting publishers, artists, collectives, galleries, and booksellers: http://airgallery.cargo.site Joan Snitzer lives and works in New York City. She has been associated with A.I.R. Gallery since 1974. Snitzer's work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Snitzer’s work examines rituals in nonobjective painting and explores abstraction’s value in a contemporary context. She is a faculty member in the Art History Department, Barnard College/Columbia University. #JoanSnitzer #PMVABF #PMVABF2021 #PrintedMatter #AIRgallery See more

Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair is open TODAY, featuring A.I.R. NY artist member Ada Potter and her book Grounds" (2016). Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVABF) begins today and ends Sunday, February 28. This is Printed Matter’s first art book fair in the virtual sphere, presenting more than 400 exhibitions from over 40 countries. Head to PMVABF.org to learn more! Ada Potter is an artist and curator living in New York. She has an MFA in Sculpture from P...ratt Institute and a BA in Art History & Studio Art from Barnard College. She has participated in exhibitions at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, ArtHelix, A.I.R Gallery, The Boiler, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation. She curated numerous group exhibitions including Garden Level in 2018 and Future Touch at Hionas Gallery in 2016. She is the creator of SCREEN_, an email-based art "space" that produces quarterly artworks, sent via email. #AdaPotter #PMVABF #PMVABF2021 #PrintedMatter #AIRgallery See more

[A.I.R. + BATURU] The fourth session of Feminism Beyond the BodyConsent and Dissent will take place TOMORROW 8 AM EST. This is the second last session of Aliza Shvart’s seminar, JOIN US before it ends Consent, specifically sexual consent, has long been a part of feminist discourse. From the beginnings of the rape crisis movement in the US in the 1970s to #MeToo, the question of bodily safety, autonomy, and agency has been at the forefront of feminist activism. In this fo...urth seminar, we will look at artworks that deal with consent and its imperfect opposite, dissent. When consent is denied, coerced, interdicted, or simply an inadequate framework for imagining our capacities, dissentthe right to resist, to protest, to voice oppositionbecomes a vital resource and creative, often embodied strategy. Image: Suzanne Lacy, with Melissa Hoffman and Phranc, Three Weeks in May, 1977, performance documentation. Photograph by Suzanne Lacy JOIN US through ZOOM Meeting ID: 880 8691 3297 If you are just tuning in nowFeminism Beyond the Body is a seminar developed by Aliza Shvarts for a series of feminist art digital programs, our latest collaboration with BATURU, to create an inclusive dialogue about feminism and art between the US and China. #ChineseExchangeProgram #A.I.R. #BATURU #feministart #feministtheory #contemporaryart #Aliza Shvarts #FeminismBeyondtheBody See more

Join us TOMORROW at 4:00 and 4:30 PM for Drift/Scatter/Settle, a collaborative music response by Marcia Bassett to the movement and altered placement of drawings in Fragile, an installation by A.I.R. New York Artist Nancy Storrow. RSVP is required and space is limited. Marcia Bassett works in areas of sound, improvisation and visual creations. Equal parts trance and critique, Bassett's sound pieces thread the needle between the conceptual and the sensual, between ritual ...invocation and cold semiotic gaze. Fragile is an installation of abstracted leaf portraits. With pastel drawings pinned across the gallery walls at fluctuating intervals and heights, the installation forms a rhythmic narrative, punctuated by lightness and gravity. Please RSVP to [email protected] ASAP to reserve a spot! For more information, visit our website. See more

TODAY AT 4 PM EST on Zoom: Join us for a conversation between writer Mimi Wong and 2019-2020 A.I.R. fellow Rachelle Dang, whose exhibition Couroupita/Corpus is on view now in Gallery II. Through their different practices, Dang and Wong consider bodies that reflect or resist colonialism and categorization. Their work and interests lie in finding ways to address racialized histories that are not necessarily overt. RSVP here: https://www.airgallery.org//in-conversation-rachelle-dang-

Center is not a particular point on the earth’s surface, an exhibition by 2019-2020 A.I.R. fellow Sareh Imani, is a multi-channel video projection which navigates the making and unmaking of interior space through self-surveillance and the passage of time. In the spring, having found herself confined to her Brooklyn apartment and unable to make work, Imani began obsessively filming her dwelling, herself, and her partner from the vantage of a single stationary camera. The re...sulting footage is a kaleidoscopic document of change and home. Center is not a particular point on the earth’s surface is on view now until Sunday, December 20th, 2020 in Gallery III. To make an appointment, visit our website or find us on SeeSaw. Image credit: Sebastian Bach See more

Couroupita/Corpus, 2019-2020 A.I.R. fellow Rachelle Dang’s exhibition on view in Gallery II, addresses artificial displacements and haunted social and natural histories. Through her work in sculpture and installation, Dang interprets the significance of historical source material and natural forms while emphasizing the shared vulnerabilities of environment, body, and matter. In the center of the gallery, viewers encounter the upright form of a truncated rainforest tree al...ongside a narrow, perforated chamber. Dang’s sculpted version of couroupita guianensis appears frozen in a peak state of abundance: long vine-like stems, blossoms, and rotund fruits envelop the trunk, yet these rigid forms evince an unexpected brittleness. Couroupita/Corpus is on view now through Sunday, December 20th, 2020. To make an appointment, visit our website or find us on SeeSaw. Image credit: Etienne Frossard See more

Fragile, A.I.R. New York Artist Nancy Storrow’s current exhibition, is an installation of abstracted leaf portraits. With pastel drawings pinned across the gallery walls at fluctuating intervals and heights, the installation forms a rhythmic narrative. Each piece is linked to the whole by line and placement, mirroring how we see leaves in nature. Storrow considers aging and the passing of time. Here are things that are uncertain, that are falling, and that need to be h...eld. In her words, Leaves are like messengers. The leaves are what is left and what will return. Fragile is on view in Gallery I now until Sunday, December 20th, 2020. Make a viewing appointment on our website or find us on SeeSaw. Image credit: Sebastian Bach See more