Peer Review: Volume I Publication Launch

Saturday, February 4 from 4–6 pm

A.I.R. Gallery 155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Peer Review is an experimental publication of reviews for artists by artists. Our mission is to organize thoughtful, text-based investigations of the artist being reviewed. For the official publication launch, two cohort members of Peer Review: Volume I will read their reviews of other artists in the cohort followed by a Q & A with the artists and the organizers.

Scheduled Readings:

Juliana Cerqueira Leite reads her review of Alexis Granwell.

Fernando Pintado reads his review of Juliana Cerqueira Leite.

Artist Biographies:

Juliana Cerqueira Leite is a Brazilian sculptor based in New York. She often works from the inside-out, producing indexes of movement. Her works in sculpture, drawing and video engage the complicated histories and possible futures of representing the human form. Cerqueira Leite graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art's Sculpture MFA program in London in 2006, as recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Prize. She exhibits internationally including recent group shows at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil, and the Bolzano Museion in Italy. She was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2019.

Fernando Pintado (b. 1982, San Juan, PR) lives and works in the Bronx, NY. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at TurnGaNo Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2018); La Productora, San Juan, PR (2015); Chemi Room, San Juan, PR (2012); Roberto Paradise, San Juan, PR (2011); and Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR (2007, 2006). Notable group exhibitions have been presented at Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (2018); Embajada, San Juan, PR (2019); Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Josh Lilley Gallery, London (2012); Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011); Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2010); Residencies include The Vermont Studio Center (2015); Pintado has been the recipient of the Charles G. Shaw Award Saul Lyons Memorial Scholarship, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (2013); and the Arnaldo Roche Foundation Award for Painting, San Juan, PR (2002). His work is in notable collections, including the Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Washington, D.C.; Donald Baechler Collection, New York, NY; and the César and Mima Reyes Collection, San Juan, PR.

Kat Chamberlin (b. 1981, Amsterdam, NL) lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured at notable institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Chicago Cultural Center, Baltimore Museum of Art and BRIC. She has shown at Helena Anrather, Hesse Flatow East, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NY), Selena’s Mountain, Guest Spot at the Reinstitute, and Beverly’s among others. Kat completed her MFA in Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and is the recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, the Toby Devan Lewis Award and the William Dole Award. Kat has been a resident at the NARS Foundation, Lynda Benglis’s Santa Fe Compound Residency, the BRIC Media Arts Fellowship and the Makrolab Station as a resident ‘lab rat’ in the Slovenian pavilion during the 2003 Venice Biennial.

Priscilla Fusco (b. 1973, Massachusetts) is a multimedia artist working with ceramics, wood and found objects. Her work is inspired by natural phenomena and the way pieces fit together. She keeps it simple! She has shown at Norte Maar, C.R.E.T.A Roma, Proto Gomez, Paradice Palase, Tappeto Volante, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Norte Maar’s Counterpointe series, and others. She fundraises for the Xerxes Society of Invertebrates by selling conceptual art. She is currently a co-director at Underdonk, Brooklyn. She lives and works in Brooklyn. She holds a BA in English from Barnard College and an MFA from Hunter University.