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A.I.R. Gallery Announces
CURRENTS Exhibition Series
New Opportunity for Women Artists

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce CURRENTS, a timely and innovative exhibition series. Each year the CURRENTS exhibit will address an issue that warrants expanded critical attention in the art world. A.I.R. will invite established and non-traditional curators (artists, activists, writers, poets) to select the works to be exhibited with the theme designed as a collaboration between the curator and the gallery. This new opportunity is open to all self-identified women artists worldwide and will be curated through an open call and through invitations by the curator.

For the inaugural CURRENTS exhibit, Martha Wilson will curate, "At Her Age," an exhibit on Women, Age and Sex. The deadline for entries is May 14, 2010. The exhibit will take place in A.I.R.'s Gallery I space from December 1, 2010 through January 2, 2011.

At Her Age will examine how women at any period in their life, old or young, view their changing bodies. Questions to be addressed could be: "How does age affect experiencing one's sexual/sensual life?" or "How does age impact one's evolving personal and social relationships?" While others may perceive older women as inconsequential or asexual, they personally may experience increasing knowledge of themselves. Younger women may experience curiosity/fear/pleasure about the changes in their own bodies due to age. A.I.R. Gallery is looking for artwork that addresses age and sex as part of a transformational process.

About the Curator: Martha Wilson is an artist and Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., a museum she established in her TriBeCa storefront loft in lower Manhattan. Since its inception in 1976, Franklin Furnace has presented and preserved temporal art: artists’ books and other multiples produced internationally after 1960; temporary installations; and performance art.

For more information on “At Her Age,” and to submit your work online, please go to http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=athera...

To download an entry form in PDF format, please go to http://www.airgallery.org/atherage.pdf

A.I.R. Gallery – ADVOCATING FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS SINCE 1972. A.I.R. Gallery is located at 111Front Street, #228, in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11am to 6pm. For directions please see www.airgallery.org . For additional information, please contact A.I.R. Gallery Director, Kat Griefen at 212-255-6651 or kgriefen@airgallery.org .

from Franklin Furnace