Art x Women

The Affordable Art Fair NYC Spring 2011 will host Art x Women, a special section of nine galleries exhibiting solely work by women artists.  As the first fair to present such a focus, we are extremely excited to launch this project at a time when there is an overwhelming interest in women artists and feminist art. In recent years numerous articles in publications such as ArtNews, The New York Times, New York Magazine and Art in America as well as many recent large-scale exhibits such as "WACK, Women Art and Revolution," curated by Cornelia Butler, "ELLE@CentrePompidou", and the founding of the ground breaking Elisabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum as well as significant publications such at MoMA's new Modern Women have placed women artists at the forefront like never before.

At the Spring 2011 fair, there will be special programming dedicated to the Art x Women section featuring talks on collecting art by women, artists discussing their process, and walking tours of the featured galleries.

Participating Galleries

A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY, New York, NY
ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, New Brunswick, NJ
Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, NY
Kris Graves Projects, Brooklyn, NY
SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Special Installations

The Irregular Pattern by artist and illustrator, Lauren Simkin Berke
Big Sal by artist, Daria Dorosh
Eat Me by artist Carolyn Clayton
UN_TIT_LED by artist Lizzy De Vita
The Pink Elephant in the Room, by artist Mariangeles Soto Diaz
P(n,k)Combinatorics by artist Nancy Cohen

Recent Graduates Booth

The Recent Graduates exhibition Post, curated by Sam Vernon featuring work by women artists that have recently completed their MFA or BFA programs.

Women Talk
Hosted by A.I.R. Gallery

Narrative Abstraction
Daria Dorosh, Multimedia Artist
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 6:30PM

Female Photographers and the Fe(male) Gaze
Jeanette May, Photographer
FRIDAY, May 6, 6:30PM

Works on Paper at Art x Women
Ferris Olin, Co-Director of the Institute of Women & Art, Rutgers, The State University of NJ
FRIDAY, May 6, 7PM

Women's Galleries & Feminist Art
Susan Bee, Painter
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1PM

Collecting Work by Women Artists
Marjorie Martay of Art W
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 4PM

Interactions, Working with Digital Media,
Cliché Verre and Printmaking Processes
Nancy Lasar, Printmaker
SUNDAY, May 8, 1:30PM