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A.I.R. Gallery is having an open call opportunity for all women artists!
Please see the information below.

CURRENTS:
"A 'Womanhouse' or a Roaming House? "A Room of One's Own" Today"

Curated by MIRA SCHOR, artist and writer

A Juried Exhibition Open to All Women Artists

Link to info & application:
http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=Curren...
ageid=148

Entry Deadline: April 30, 2013
Submission Fee: $40.00 for 3 images OR a video submission (additional Images
are $5.00 each)

ELIGIBILITY:
- All women artists, including self-identified women, may submit original
works of art.
- Painting in any medium, photography, prints, drawing, works on paper, new
media, sculpture, mixed media, traditional or non-traditional materials are
welcome. **
- There is no size limit on artwork.

Exhibition Dates:
January 8 to February 1, 2014: Gallery 1
Reception: Thursday, January 9th 6-9pm

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A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce the open call for CURRENTS, a timely
and innovative biennial exhibition series. CURRENTS addresses contemporary
issues that warrant expanded critical attention in the art world. A.I.R.
invites non-traditional curators (artists, activists, writers,) to
collaborate with the gallery in developing the exhibition theme.

AIR's third presentation in the CURRENTS exhibition series will be curated
by Mira Schor, entitled "A 'Womanhouse'or a Roaming House? "A Room of One's
Own" Today," and revisits the requisite territory for artistic production by
women visual artists suggested by Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and
articulated at Womanhouse in Los Angeles in 1972. This theme can be
interpreted in any way that takes into account the gendering of space, the
ownership of domestic space, and ideas about the basis of creativity as
either a private pursuit or a public one.

Extra Explanation: As many around the world are considering reviving the
model of the commons as an alternative to global capitalism's privatization
of the social, and as local geographies compete with global identities, this
exhibition considers the following questions: What is the room today? Who
occupies it? What is the space necessary for an artist to make art in and
for whom? Rather than a "Womanhouse" ought we now envision a Rooming House
or a Roaming House?

Mira Schor is a painter and writer living in New York City. Her primary
subject has been the embodiment of meaning within the material and pictorial
qualities of painting, balancing political and theoretical concerns with
formalist and material passions. She received her MFA from CalArts and has
been the recipient of awards in painting from the Guggenheim, Marie Walsh
Sharpe, and Pollock-Krasner Foundations, as well as the College Art
Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism and a Creative
Capital / Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is the author of A
Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life and the
blog A Year of Positive Thinking, as well as the author of Wet: On Painting,
Feminism, and Art Culture and the co-editor, with Susan Bee, of
M/E/A/N/I/N/G. She has recently shown her work at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles
and Marvelli Gallery in New York City.

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
212-255-6651
info@airgallery.org
www.airgallery.org

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