Lost Perimeters
Victoria Manganiello
GALLERY III
Untitled #50, 2016, natural and synthetic fiber and dye, 118 x 62 x 1 inches.
February 12 — March 14, 2021
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to present Lost Perimeters, an exhibition by 2019-2020 A.I.R. Fellow Victoria Manganiello. The show includes a selection of the artist’s recent woven paintings, varying in color and scale and displayed for the first time as a single, overlapping installation. This is Manganiello’s first major solo exhibition in New York City.
Lost Perimeters brings together 15 works that explore the boundaries of physical space and the blurring of binaries. With textiles spanning the walls, occupying corners, and spreading onto the floor and ceiling, the exhibition addresses the interstitial spaces—both physical and metaphorical—that are often unacknowledged or fade into the background. Similarly, Manganiello’s manipulation of scale, color, and light in these works activates and transforms familiar, everyday materials like cotton, wool, and silk. In the installation, individual textiles cede their edges to others, disavowing autonomy in favor of an uninterrupted intermingling.
Manganiello works primarily with traditional textile-making techniques such as yarn spinning, color dyeing, and floor loom weaving, often combining these approaches with surprising technologies and unconventional applications. Likewise, her textiles marry natural, organic materials with synthetic threads and dyes. With her large-scale abstract pieces, Manganiello questions how the binaries we impose upon ourselves—across gender, race, age, nationality, and nature— saturate the objects we live with. Through her use of textiles, the most intimate and close-to-the-body of mediums, she offers spectrums as alternatives to binaries.
Victoria Manganiello is based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MA from New York University and a BA from Skidmore College. Recent exhibitions include The Museum of Arts and Design, Knockdown Center, Indianapolis Contemporary, and Ars Electronica. Named as one of Forbes Magazine’s Art & Style 30 Under 30 for 2019, Manganiello has received multiple internationally recognized grants and residency appointments including the Wave Farm Media Artist Grant, S&R Washington Award, Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Arts Grant, Wassaic Project Residency, Harvest Works, and the Textile Arts Center Residency. She has exhibited her work throughout the USA and internationally, including in Romania, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Croatia, and Italy. She is an adjunct professor of Textiles at NYU and Parsons The New School. She is currently the executive producer of an upcoming documentary about textiles.
Public Program
Natural Color Dye: Interactive History and Hands-on Workshop
Friday, February 19, 7-9 PM ET via Zoom
Join 2019-2020 A.I.R. Fellow Victoria Manganiello for an interactive workshop on the history of natural dyes and learn introductory techniques for applying dye to paper and textiles. We will discuss the tools and materials that have been used at various times and locations to create color with organic materials, as well as collaboratively explore and expand upon our collective knowledge of the history of color. A list of suggested materials, tools, and vendors will be provided upon registration. Come ready to experiment and brainstorm with your fellow participants.
Registration is currently closed. To be added to the waitlist, please email info@airgallery.org.
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Photography: Sebastian Bach