Exhibitions

Night & Day revisits Melanie Vote's previous work from the Washhouse series, infused with a new twist. Inspired by a small work painted during the pandemic, this collection of pieces explores the themes of place, time, and impermanence. Through the juxtaposition of the tattered facade of an outbuilding of rural Iowa flooded with daylight, dropped at twilight in a New York City park, Vote challenges our perceptions of space and time. The installation invites us to consider the significance of…

A group show of Cuban Artists who's work consists of art made from recycled materials. Participating artists: Osvaldo Castilla Sandra Dooley Dagoberto Driggs Dumois Juan Karlos Echeverria Franko El Potro Guillermo Estrada Fuster Joel Jover Mederox Montebravo Elsa Mora René Quintana Bravo Fidel Reina Remberto Ramirez Carlos César Román Adrian Rumbaut Wayacon

Higher Pictures presents early oil paintings by Prudence Whittlesey, selections from series the artist made in the 1990s. This is the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery. Prudence Whittlesey’s early oil painting series are painted from life at life-size or larger, an imposing scale chosen “to convey the impact upon myself of my perceptions of individuals that I sought to paint who felt overwhelmed and haunted by daily life.” These were not artists’ models; they had never sat for paintings before. Whittlesey’s…

"Linger" is a series of works by New York Studio School Artist-in-Residence Yiting Zhao. Taken from observations in her day-to-day life, Zhao's paintings depict her apartment, studio, and locations she frequently passes. The title stems from the artist's process of lingering with her paintings, emphasizing color to provoke an intimate aura and building intricate textures with various densities of paint.

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Frequently the woods are pink, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Maxine Henryson, and the artist’s fourth exhibition at the gallery. Henryson introduces a new body of work that intermixes large and medium-sized photographs with non-linear narratives in small leporellos. By using variations of the blur—through depth of field, movement, and intentional soft focus—Henryson captures photographic imagery that favors feelings and memory over traditional representation. Her poetic, painterly approach celebrates light and color.

In never settling into the stability of objects, 2022–2023 Fellow Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang (鄭慧蘭) presents a new body of work consisting of sculptural weavings and paintings that foreground the resilience and bonds of her Chinese-Guatemalan diasporic kinship networks. Looping metals, entangled natural and synthetic fibers, and strung black beans gesture toward the intimacies and movements of her ancestors, seeding connections that honor their various migrations and everyday environments.

A.I.R Gallery is pleased to announce old blues new bruises, a multimedia exhibition by 2022–2023 Fellow Keli Safia Maksud. This is Maksud’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Mapping and sound are at the center of old blues new bruises. Drawing from diagrammatic systems such as musical notation, architecture, and city planning, and practices of counter-mapping that are used in multiple disciplines to reclaim colonized territory, Maksud presents an aurally and visually rich environment in the gallery, including embroidery…