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A.I.R. Gallery

Featuring Susan Bee, Christian Camacho-Light, Roxana Fabius, Kat Griefen, Maxine Henryson, JoAnne McFarland, Joan Snitzer, and Jessica Holmes

Thursday, August 26, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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A.I.R. Gallery directors, members, and staff Susan Bee, Christian Camacho-Light, Roxana Fabius, Kat Griefen, Maxine Henryson, JoAnne McFarland, and Joan Snitzer join Rail Editor-at-Large Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by JoAnne McFarland.

In this Talk

Susan Bee

A photo of Susan Bee on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Portrait by Phong H. Bui

Susan Bee is an artist, editor, and book artist living in Brooklyn. “Susan Bee, Eye of the Storm: Selected Works 1981-2023,” curated by Johanna Drucker was at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA, in 2024. This show was accompanied by a 68-page catalog. She has had 11 solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery in NYC. Bee has published many artist’s books including collaborations with poets. Her artwork is in many public and private collections and has been widely reviewed. Bee was the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G from 1986-2016. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA in Art from Hunter College. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014.

Roxana Fabius

A photo of Roxana Fabius on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Uruguayan curator and art historian Roxana Fabius is the Executive Director at A.I.R. Gallery, which was founded in 1972 as the first female artist cooperative gallery in the United States. She is on the faculty of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Her research is focused on the intersection of aesthetics, art, design, technology, rationalism, and feminist theory.

    Kat Griefen

    A photo of Kat Griefen on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Art dealer and art historian Kat Griefen was Director of A.I.R. Gallery from 2006–2011. She has been a Senior Lecturer at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and has also taught in the Graduate Program in Liberal Studies at Rutgers University, Camden. Ms. Griefen is on the faculty at Queensborough Community College in the Art and Design Department with a focus on Gallery and Museum Studies. She has lectured widely at other institutions including New York University, Washington University, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Art and Design and the National Academy Museum among others. Ms. Griefen is a Board Member of the Feminist Art Project. She has a M.A. in Art History from Hunter College and a B.A. in Art History and in Women Studies from Purchase College.

    JoAnne McFarland

    A photo of JoAnne McFarland on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
    Artist, poet, and curator JoAnne McFarland is the Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn which focuses on work that is both literary and highly visual. McFarland has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, for more than thirty years. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Department of State, and Dynegy, Inc., among many others. She is the author of eighteen poetry books and libretti, including a recent series of innovative digital bookworks. In her work McFarland treats violence and creativity as diametrically opposed: each act of making thwarts violence’s aim to destroy.

    Joan Snitzer

    A photo of Joan Snitzer on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Artist and professor Joan Snitzer is the Director of the Visual Arts Program in the Department of Art History at Barnard College and has held this position since 2001. Her studio work is focused on painting as a method of visual communication and democratization of social and personal beliefs. She has worked in a number of organizations that provide support for women and underrepresented visual artists. Snitzer has been affiliated with A.I.R Gallery, the oldest artist-run women’s exhibition space in the US, since 1974. Snitzer founded and directed the “Artist in the Marketplace” (AIM) program, which is now in its 41st year at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, to provide professional development opportunities to emerging artists residing in the New York metropolitan area.

    Jessica Holmes

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    Jessica Holmes, a co-editor of the Artseen section for the Brooklyn Rail, has also contributed to its pages for over a decade. Her writing has also featured in BOMB, Hyperallergic, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair Spain, among many others, and has been included in over two dozen exhibition catalogues and monographs. Previously, Jessica worked for the Calder Foundation for nearly two decades, including six years as its Deputy Director.

    Christian Camacho-Light

    A photo of Christian Camacho-Light on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Curator and writer based in New York, Christian Camacho-Light’s research deals with the relationships between difference and identity, recognition and resistance, and aesthetic and social representation. They’ve organized exhibitions and public programming at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY; and the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Camacho-Light is currently the Director of Exhibitions and Fellowship at A.I.R. Gallery and was formerly the Associate Director of Kate Werble Gallery (2017-2020) and AIRspace Curator-in-Residence at Abrons Arts Center (2017-2019). They hold an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BA in Art History from Vassar College.

      Maxine Henryson

      A photo of Maxine Henryson on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
      Photographer and bookmaker Maxine Henryson’s photographic practice draws from traditions including painting, film, performance, installation, and sculpture. Her work is the subject of two monographs: Ujjayi’s Journey (Kehrer 2012), Red Leaves and Golden Curtains (Kehrer 2007). Recent solo exhibitions include True Though Invented, A.I.R. Gallery, NY (2020), Contrapuntal, A.I.R. Gallery, NY (2017), Ujjayi’s Journey, A.I.R. Gallery, NY, Calculated Coincidence, Kleinschmidt Fine Photographs, Wiesbaden (2014). She has a MPhil from the University of London, a MAT from the University of Chicago and a MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Henryson lives and works in New York.

        We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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