AIRspace Open Studios Saturday Jan 29 | noon – 9pm 2nd and Ground floor studios Performances and screenings in the Abrons Underground Theater, Experimental Theater, and Gallery

Curator-in-residence: Miguel Amado

Artists-in-residence: Veronica Frenning Yeon Jin Kim Beth Livensperger Nyeema Morgan Austin Shull

Starting in late September, the Abrons Arts Center provides free studio space for 11 months to five New York City visual artists and one curator under the AIRspace residency program. Historically, the artists selected for the AIRspace program have been painters, printmakers, photographers, sculptors, and video or installation artists.

Visual artists Yeon Jin Kim, Beth Livensperger, Nyeema Morgan, and Austin Shull will present work in their second-floor studio space, and ceramics artist Veronica Frenning will present work in her ground floor studio.

In the Underground Theater, curator-in-residence Miguel Amado will present a screening of video works, and Abrons Visual Arts Director Jonathan Durham will host an information session for potential applicants to the 2011-12 AIRspace residency.

This event coincides with It’s You Today, a day of public programming in conjunction with The West at Sunset, an exhibit currently on view in the Abrons galleries.

SCHEDULE Noon – 9pm: Open Studios, ground and 2nd floor

2-3pm: Video by Dan Shipsides; Screening curated and introduced by Miguel Amado, Underground Theater 3:30-4:30pm: Video by AIRs Nyeema Morgan and Austin Shull, plus Amy Finkbeiner, Underground Theater 4:30-5pm: Applying to AIRspace info session w/Jonathan Durham, Underground Theater 5-7pm: Reception, 2nd Floor Studios 7-9pm: Screening of The Holy Mountain, Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Performances 2, 3, 4pm: Rachel Pollak – All Together Now (2011), Abrons Main Gallery 6-9:30pm: Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff – Whale Lore (2010), Experimental Theater

All events are free.

For more information AIRspace 2010-2011 residents: http://bit.ly/aC03WR AIRspace program: http://bit.ly/aGX1rn The West at Sunset exhibit: http://bit.ly/e1FXpE

SAVE THE DATE Applications to the 2011-2012 AIRspace program are due May 1, 2010.