Wish You Were Here: The Second Best Time Is Now
2024 Annual Postcard Show

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June 28 – July 28, 2024

Opening reception: Friday, June 28, from 5–7pm

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to present Wish You Were Here: The Second Best Time Is Now, the 2024 edition of its annual Postcard Show. Each year, hundreds of artists come together to support A.I.R. by donating a postcard-sized work in any medium. Each original work is sold for $45 and all proceeds go to benefit A.I.R. and its mission to advance the work of women and non-binary artists. This year’s exhibition theme focuses on the climate crisis. The exhibition borrows its title from a Chinese Proverb: “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” 

Climate activists are pursuing transformational change with a clear and urgent message: act now to protect people and save our planet from the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Addressing the environmental crisis requires collaboration, creativity, and positive solutions on the part of citizens working in other fields, including artists. 

Artists’ activism has taken many forms, from posters and demonstrations to radical actions and fundraising. Many of the postcards in the exhibition explore the intersection of gender and the environment. As Katherine Wilkinson writes in The New York Times, “Climate change is a collective problem but its burdens—displacement, homelessness, poverty, sexual violence, disease—weigh more heavily on women and girls.”

Participating Artists: Tomoko Abe, Victoria Alexander, Liz Almonte, Micaela Amateau Amato, Diana Antohe, Julia Arbex, Leslie Atkins, Eric Aubertin, Parker Balog, Teresa Barbera, Luisa Basnuevo, Crystal Benitez, Stephanie Bernheim, Taylor Bielecki, Meg Boe Birns, Alison Borrero, Daniel C. Boyer, Sílvia Soares Boyer, Airco Caravan, Women That Care, Sofia Carmi, Amiyah Carrasquillo, Eugenie Cha,Highbrige Gardens Participating Children, Kayden Cole, Miyah Cole, Yve Collective, Sarah Delli Colli, Ashley Condina, Cb Cooke, Stella Cooper, Lisa Cooperman, Phoebe Cosse, Mary Crenshaw, Maks Dannecker, Vannesa De Anda, Christine Defazio, Molly Valentine Dierks, Dini Dixon, Kathleen Dobrowsky, Athalie Dore, Monika Drożyńska, Kathleen Dunn, Patricia Erbelding, Angel Jacinto Escalante, Amy Estrada, Tara Fannon, Hayley Ferber, Carlo Ferraris, Celeste Fichter, B. Fioresca, Ava Fischer, Iuliana Foghis, Gigi Frankowski, Cindy Franz, Emiri Fujimoto, Mirta Isabel Garcia, Flora Georgiou, Ashton Greene, Frank Gutierrez, Ja'zyah Gwyn, Ken Hales, Ayah Sol Hall, Nanako Hattori, Jessica Held, Maxine Henryson, Sue Hettmansperger, Miho Hiranouchi, Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, Kaarin Holmberg, Nashera Holness, Alejandro Wu Hou, Andreena Wu Hou, Hugo Houayek, Marivel Altagracia Liriano Inoa, Damian Iordanov, Dilys Mary Jackson, Kinga Jakabffy, Eric Janke, Inka Juslin, Catherine K., Emily Kadish, Tim Kastelijns, Jewel Kawataki, Malia Kelly, Skylar Kelly, Malia Kelly, Sarah-Jayne Kennelly, Meokyah Kerr, Susanne Kessler, Maxima Maria Kinsky, Christopher Knowles, Addison Kopman, Carole Kunstadt, Crystal Lamb,Angela M. LaMonte, Judith Larson, Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos, Juniper Le Claire, Ron Longsdorf, Hannah Fernandez Lopez, Sha Luo, Coco Ma, Samantha Malay, Stefana Mcclure, Sabra Moore, Masha Morgunova, Maureen Murray, James Mutton, Shangari Mwashighadi, Marcia Neblett, Sylvia Netzer, Stella Newman, Sally Novak Jacquie O'brien, Tara O'donavan, Marie Odenstrand, Akané Ogura, Andre Pace, Barbara A Penn, Londyn Perkins, Abby Spangel Perry, Jessica Pevelman, Michan Pourazar, Zamier Quattlebdum, Milagros Ramirez, Rujuta Rao, Ken Reker, Sandye Renz, Maryann Riker, Nancy Rodrigo, Scarlyn Rodriguez, Courtney Alan Rossy, Lola Sáenz, Bárbara Salzmann, Emma Stallings, Ann Schaumburger, Margaret Schneider, Sabine Schober, Lique Schoot, Francesca Schwartz, Alys Scott-Hawkins, Cheryl Senatore, Penko Shaitanov, Cory Emma Siegler, Simran, Ana Kotar Škarjak, SMdLC, Karen Anne Smith, Lydia Smith, Claudia Sohrens, Kandi Spindler, Barbara Ann Stanley, Evelin Stermitz, Erica Stoller, Nancy Storrow, Johanna Strobel, Andreas Streicher, Katharina Stumm, Judith Sturm, Yuanliang Sun, Ruoxin Sun, Iman Taha, Rafaelina Tineo, Emily Treasure-Greene, Lara Tremayne, Yota Tsotra, Tulane University, Suki Valentine, Valstyle, Cedric Van Eenoo, Dasha Loza Vasquez, Aisha Vinicio, Gabrielle Vitollo, Sayo Watanabe, Mel Watkin, Heather Weathers, Rebecca Weissman, Tisna Westerhof, Gail M. Willert, Max W Won, Rosemary Wright, Chia Yun Wu, Plamen Yordanov, Snejana Yordanova, Kachiko Yoshida, Safwan Zakaria, zhan_raw

View the Press Release here.

Photography: Matthew Sherman