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A.I.R. Gallery, the DUMBO Arts Festival, the Puffin
Foundation, and Anne Percoco host:
Perimeters
BROOKLYN, NY September 2011 – A.I.R. Gallery, the DUMBO Arts Festival, the Puffin Foundation, and 2010-11 A.I.R.
Fellowship Artist Anne Percoco invite the public to Perimeters, an upcoming event presenting site-specific works by three
women artists. The works will be on view during the annual DUMBO Arts Festival: Friday, September 23 from 6:00 to 9:00
PM, Saturday, September 24, from 12:00 to 8:00 PM, and Sunday, September 25, from 12:00 to 6:00 PM. The event is
open to the public, free of charge. For project updates, visit www.perimeterdumbo.wordpress.com. Stop by A.I.R. Gallery
to pick up a map of the works.
Martha Clippinger’s project will fill the negative spaces of the Brooklyn Bridge’s iconic arches with color. Pairs of
cardboard shapes will hang from street signs, scaffolding, and other locations throughout DUMBO. Viewers will be asked
to align their bodies with the hued shapes and the bridge in order to “color-in” the voids of the Brooklyn Bridge’s arches.
The material reminds us of DUMBO’s earlier nickname, Gairville, after Robert Gair, the man credited with the invention of
corrugated cardboard.
Einat Imber’s Mayday is a site-specific flag-cart, rolling on the abandoned train tracks in DUMBO. When at rest, the flag
pole will be weighed down, laying on the ground, and the structure will resemble a canon. People passing by will have a
chance to roll the sculpture on the tracks, temporarily raising the flag.
Lily Mooney’s “Wandering Directions” is a self-guided audio tour that leads listeners through an intimate and tactile
experience of DUMBO. Narrated by a self-proclaimed "expert" on the area, the tour weaves together storytelling,
instruction, and observation, drawing tour-takers' attention to large city-scapes and smaller, often overlooked details.
"Wandering Directions” plays upon different experiences of isolation and immersion, direction and displacement often
felt when moving through the city, heightening listeners' awareness of their surroundings as the guide illuminates local
culture and history.
Anne Percoco has exhibited and presented public projects both nationally and internationally, and will have a solo show
in Brooklyn's NURTUREart Gallery in 2012. She lives and works in Jersey City. Martha Clippinger’s concept of painting as
“color in space” leads her to create colorful abstractions that often respond to surrounding architecture. She is the
founder and director of The Dirty Dirty, an alternative art space in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, and in 2010 received a studio
space in DUMBO through The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s The Space Program. She is represented by Elizabeth
Harris Gallery. Einat Imber, born in Israel, received her BFA from the Cooper Union and now lives and works in Brooklyn,
NY. She is a 2011-12 A.I.R Gallery Fellow, and her solo show Continental Drift will be on view at the gallery in 2012. Lily
Mooney is a writer and performer whose work has been produced in Boston, Seattle, Chicago and New York. Working
both traditionally and experimentally, with found and original material, she uses language and storytelling media to reimagine familiar notions of identity and community.
A.I.R. Gallery is located at 111 Front Street, #228 in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. Gallery hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00
AM to 6:00 PM. For directions, please visit www.airgallery.org. For more information, please contact Gallery Director, Julie Lohnes at
212-255-6651 or jlohnes@airgallery.org.
The A.I.R. Fellowship Program is made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a state agency,
JP Morgan Chase through a re-grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, as well as generous support from Louise McCagg, The Bernheim
Foundation, The Gifford Foundation, Elizabeth A. Sackler, Golden Artists Colors, The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, and The Estate
of Theo Westenberger.
regrant