A.I.R. Gallery: "Glow in the Dark" - 7/2-8/1/2021

Sky Kesler, Scorpio Rising, Digital Artwork. [Image Description: Two people with three eyes and colorful lipstick, jewelry, tattoos, and wardrobe stand in a brightly colored pink and purple room to the right of the image. Amongst the various objects in the room is a lamp with a cow print light-shade, indoor houseplants, and a poster with a knife that has a ribbon wrapped around it with the words “DEAD MEN DON’T CATCALL” written on it. Outside of the house is an arid landscape with light brown mountains and a coconut tree.]

Glow in the Dark
Friday, July 2 - Sunday, August 1, 2021
*Opening Reception: Friday, July 2, 12-6pm (by appointment) with actions by Infinite and Pieza at 3pm

Torey Akers, Emmy Bright, Brittany Burton, Brandon Coley-Cox, Adinah Dancyger (featuring Mykki Blanco), Jazzmint Dash, Pieza Collective: Dulce Lamarca, Maximilian Juliá, Daniel Arturo Almeida, Infinite, Sky Kesler, Nikki Lau, Philadelphia Printworks (featuring Maryam Pugh), Tamara Santibañez, and Elise Warfield

Curated by Kristina Bivona

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Glow in the Dark, a group exhibition that politicizes formalism through the language of color. The aesthetic and conceptual choices made by each artist swing from fluorescent exuberance to sobriety in black and white. Glow in the Dark brings these artists together to ask the question: Why are formal aesthetics so often devoid of politics? 

The uses of color in Glow in the Dark interrogate the roots of our visual value systems and their affectual associations. The works included in the exhibition invest in formats and media that have traditionally been disavowed by the mainstream art world, such as ephemera, DIY merchandise, and graffiti. In this way, they illuminate the full range of authentic lived experience with cringe, intimacy, and candor. By centering the dignity and ingenuity inherent to marginalized existence, Glow In the Dark situates hue, tone, and saturation as artful means of addressing the visual spectrum in identity. 

This grouping of artists aims to divorce the monied, masculine project of minimalism from the communicative majesty of monochrome, working towards a more expansive understanding of color signification.

The gallery is currently open by appointment. To book an appointment, please click here.

For more information on this exhibition, please click here.