"A.I.R. Expedition: Sweden An exhibition of Work by seven Swedish Women Artists" Exhibition

A.I.R. Gallery

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A.I.R. Gallery announces A.I.R. Expedition Sweden, an exhibition of work by seven Swedish women artists.

As the first women’s gallery in the United States A.I.R. has hosted a series of international exchange exhibits beginning in 1976 with Combative Acts, Profiles and Voices an exhibit of French women artists curated by Aline Dallier. This exhibition series has continued with Women Artists from Japan (1978), Artists from Israel (1979), Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists in the United States, curated by Kazuko and Ana Mendieta (1980), Sweden Comes to New York (1981) and Domestic Goods, Women Artists for Central Europe (2005). The gallery is now pleased to host A.I.R. Expedition Sweden.

Hjördis Becker’s motifs recall traveling and a journey; empty coat hangers on the line, chairs left behind, drawings of footprints, birds poised in the same direction, as in flight. Pictures developed as in a darkroom, clarified and surprising.

Annika Erixån paints artifacts that become part of a sculpture that becomes an ink drawing. It is like practicing a language, conjugating words into sentences, joining it all together.

Margareta Krantz’s icons in textile are mysterious, puzzling, while at the same time they dazzle with shimmering colors.

Margareta Lindman creates a language, which does not have any order or a hierarchical structure. Her works have a feeling of wool and milk - something very old-fashioned in a story that we follow in winding paths cluttered with associations.

Birgitta Nenzén, fragmented pictures joined together like musical notation that never ends, like humming. The sculptures have firm forms but with notches, turning into cog-wheels that grip into each other and then move on. The embroideries from past generations of women are also a kind of notation that here becomes a slow tale of roots and heritage.

For Aino Näslund, everyday items are things that separate and become symbols or simple indicators. Her contours are strong and soft, like a dialect that sings - both comfortingly and heartfelt.

Irene Trotzig, is totally natural in her painting, the forms penetrate each other like a strong leverything. Its own values of perspective builds, turn, twist the colors that roar and resound.

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Schedule

from June 23, 2010 to July 18, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-06-24 from 18:00 to 20:00

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