Special Free Event at Werkstatte Gallery: May 15^th, 6:30

Eileen Myles, Kristin Prevallet, Amy Lawless and a performance from Pat Lasch.

It is our pleasure to announce that Werkstatte Gallery will be hosting a reading and performance in conjunction with its current exhibition: A.I.R Gallery Retrospective: 1972 – 1979.

The A.I.R. cooperative gallery was the first all-women’s gallery, featuring the best work from prominent artists of the downtown art scene. Our reading, featuring the talented poetry of three leading New York poets and an original A.I.R. Gallery member, offers a selection of fantastic female artists, and speaks to A.I.R.’s “Monday Night” programming: a discursive educational program that utilized a time when galleries are traditionally closed. On select Monday evenings A.I.R. opened its doors to varying speakers, performances, and how-to seminars that covered topics ranging from tax preparation to organizing a cooperative gallery.

Eileen Myles is a prolific poet, novelist, and essayist. She is also the author of, among others, Skies, School of Fish, Chelsea Girls, and more. Eileen is, by all accounts, a rock star of the poetry world- a gifted writer first but an inspiring teacher as well, and also able to say that she had a well-publicized presidential run. Her most recent book Sorry, Tree, is available from Wave Books and was published to rave reviews.

Pat Lasch was an original member of the A.I.R. co-op from 1972. Her intimate works of sculpture, painting, and prose have been featured and lauded in numerous galleries and journals. Her work incorporates narrative (starting from her childhood in Queens as the daughter of a baker), memoir, and all to create an exploration of the sexual object, the organ, the fertile, and the lonely. Her work was recently exhibited at the Zabriskie Gallery.

Kristin Prevallet’s I, Afterlife: Essay In Mourning Time is released through ESSAY BOOKS. Kristin’s prose has appeared in Fence, Riding the Meridian, Jacket, and many others, and she edited an anthology of Helen Adam’s writing, A Helen Adam Reader, which has just been published.

Amy Lawless’ work has appeared in The Agriculture Reader and Barrow Street and her work has been noted by The Best American Poetry. Her debut book of poems, Noctis Licentia, will release as the premier launch title for Black Maze Books.

WERKSTÄTTE

55 Great Jones Street
New York, NY, 10012

Subways:
6 to Bleecker Street
B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette
N/R to Prince Street

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