All women artists, including self-identified women, may submit original works of art.

CURRENTS Exhibition Series 2014:
"A 'Womanhouse' or a Roaming House? "A Room of One's Own" Today"
Curated by:
MIRA SCHOR , artist and writer

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 our 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.


APPLY HERE   http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=Currents&pageid=148

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? This exhibition invites artists working in a variety of media from video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation, and collaborations in all media to interpret the theme 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.

Juror: 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.


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.**

**Please note that installations will only be accepted if they have been completed.
NO PROPOSALS for installation will be accepted.



Entry & Deadline:

   • ENTRY DEADLINE: April 30, 2013 (no exceptions).
   • $40.00 entry fee for 3 images.
   • Additional Images are $5.00 each. (up to three extra images allowed - six image limit).
   • Images should be of three different works of art you want considered for the exhibition.
   • Applications can be images OR video but NOT both.
   • The entry form is only on the A.I.R. Gallery website: APPLY HERE

For Video Submissions Only:

   • We ONLY accept video submissions as a URL on YouTube. Submit your URL in the field provided in the online application.
   • The video you upload to YouTube may contain one piece or excerpts of up to 3 pieces.
   • We will only watch the first 3 minutes of the video linked to your URL. Please take this under consideration.
   • Please make sure that you enter your URL correctly.


Delivery of Work:

   • All work accepted for the exhibition must arrive at the gallery framed and/or ready to hang/install.
   • Work may be shipped via FedEx or UPS ONLY.
   • Return postage MUST BE provided for unsold work. Work may also be hand delivered during gallery hours.


Exhibition Dates:
January 8 to February 1, 2014: Gallery 1



Reception:

Thursday, January 8th 6-9pm




APPLY HERE  
 http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=Currents&pageid=148

A.I.R. programs and exhibitions are made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the NY State Council on the Arts, JP Morgan Chase through a re-grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, as well as generous support from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, The Bernheim Foundation, The Gifford Foundation, Elizabeth A. Sackler, The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, and many generous individual donors.