QMAil: January 2007 - Happy New Year!

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With every passing year we each make resolutions that we never keep - get more exercise, start saving more money, take advantage of the city's cultural offerings. A trip to the Queens Museum of Art is the perfect fit for all three. What could be better than a walk through Flushing Meadows Corona Park on an unseasonably mild winter weekend afternoon, before heading into the galleries to catch Queens International 2006: Everything All at Once before it closes on January 14. As you stroll in, you might notice that admission is by suggested donation so the trip is also fiscally responsible. What more needs to be said? Start the year off right and keep those resolutions for a change. We hope to see you soon.

January masthead: Corky Lee, Guyanese "Phag Wah" Festival, Richmond Hill, 2006. C-print. Courtesy of the artist.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Queens International 2006: Everything All at Once

Closing - Saturday, January 14, 2007

Queens International 2006 is the third installment of the Queens Museum of Art's biennial survey of Queens- based artists. This year, 52 artists and two collaboratives weigh in on American culture, the politics of war, contemporary feminist issues, spirituality, the environment and a host of other subjects close to the hearts of many local residents. The multiplicity of experiences and ethnicities that coexist side by side in this borough is matched by the myriad approaches employed by the artists in Queens International 2006. Narrative, documentary, performative and conceptual strategies are explored with materials as broad ranging as mountaineering rope and incense sticks to cake frosting and motel towels.

Driven by the local/ international flavor of the museum and given the astonishing cultural diversity of the borough, a conscious effort has been made to avoid arranging this exhibition by theme, national origin, or aesthetic affinity. What results is an incarnation of the biennial befitting of a subtitle that could just as easily describe the borough from which it was born – Everything All at Once.

Additionally, for the first time, Queens International incorporates an exhibition within the exhibition. An exploration of everyday life in the borough as seen through the eyes of 38 local photographers who have focused on the rich complexity of life in Queens, The World in a Picture/The World in a Borough brings the exceptional, the familiar and the exotic, together in a singular tapestry of the chaotic but incomparably rich worlds that exist here.

List of Artists

Queens International 2006: Manuel Acevedo, Elia Alba, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Blanka Amezkua, Michael Ankowiak, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Judith Barry, Cayetana Carrión and Camila Valdeavellano, Gigi Chen, Shen Chen, Anne Chu, Martha Colburn, David Dempewolf, Sjoerd Doting, Anindita Dutta, Yukari Edamitsu, Paul Galloway, Linda Ganjian, Orly Genger, Jesus Gonzalez Gutierrez, Debra Hampton, Joshua Abram Howard, Andrew Hur, Ran Hwang, Taeseong Kim, Fawn Krieger, Gwenessa Lam, Miyeon Lee, T. Charnan Lewis, Norma Markley, William McMillin, Yin Mei, Jason Mones, Ivan Monforte, Natalia Nakazawa, Renzo Ortega, Jihyun Park, Sophia Peer, Antonia Perez, Lucia Pizzani, Helen Quinn, Anita Ragusa, Sara Rahbar, José Emilio Rodríguez, Nola Romano, Gina Ruggeri, Judith Sloan, Amanda Sparks, Still Present Pasts, - Injoo Whang, - Ji-Young Yoo, - Yul-san Liem, - Grace M. Cho, - Hosu Kim, - Hyun Lee, - Carolina McNeely, Jaret Vadera, Mary A. Valverde, Alejandra Villasmil, Anahita Vossoughi

The World in a Picture/The World in a Borough: Paul Anthony Melhado, Marga Carmona-Carriedo, Michelle Cheikin, Mark Chesnut, Jason A. Cina, Stephanie Diamond, Carlos L. Esguerra, Elizabeth Felicella, Rosalie Frost, Mary Teresa Giancoli, Anders Goldfarb, Enrique González Ibarra, Irv Gordon, Audrey Gottlieb, Edward Grazda, Tamara Gubernat, Tony Hamboussi, Belenna M. Lauto, Corky Lee, Barbara E. Leven, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Gary Matson, Evie McKenna, Pierre Obando, Lina Pallotta, Carolina Peñafiel, Carol Pereira, Paulina Perera-Riveroll, Lourenso Ramautar, Susannah Ray, Sandra C. Roa, Rebecca Robertson, Orville Robertson, Sara Rychtarik, Greg M. Stowell, Deborah Straussman, Sookjin Suh, Tom Warren

Queens International 06 exhibition catalog is available in the QMA bookstore.

Exhibition Credits
Queens International 2006 and related programming are sponsored in part by the generosity of Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, the New York City Council, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Department for the Aging and the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development. Additional funding is provided by the New York State Legislature, the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Council on the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Blumenfeld Development Group, Ltd., the QMA's Board of Trustees, our corporate and foundation supporters, and the members and friends of the museum.

Art Asia Pacific and Arte al Dia International are media sponsors of Queens International 2006.

The Queens Museum of Art is a proud Cultural Arts Partner of WNYC Radio.

More information is available here.

Photos: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Untitled (chest of drawers), 2006. Mixed objects. Courtesy of the artist and Magnan Emrich Contemporary.
Tony Hamboussi, Vestige of the Pepsi Cola Bottling Plant, 46-00 5th Street, Long Island City, 2004. C-print, courtesy of the artist.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Departure Lounge v.2 & Closing Party for Queens International 06

Saturday January 13, 3:30- pm

3:30 pm
Encore Presentation of 6.25: History Beneath the Skin, a multi-media performance by QI 06 Artists Collective Still Present Pasts about the divisions, silences, and legacies of the Korean War

4 pm
Departure Lounge will be an evening of words and music featuring poets and sound artists living or working in the borough of Queens. Marking the closing of Queens International '06, it will include performances from poets Vikas Menon, Garth Graeper, Shanxing Wang, Carley Moore and Inaugural Poet Laureate of Queens Hal Sirowitz, plus soundpiece artist team einLab (QI 04). Curated and MCed by Emmy Catedral co-editor of 2nd Ave, a new literary and art e-zine.

5 pm
The readings will be followed by a reception with live music R-tronika, an Electro Underground music project comprised of QI 06 artist Renzo Ortega AKA "Squad Lokal" performing with guest percussionist Gustavo Aguilar, then party on with DJ Marcelo Cunning (Nacotheque), spinning Spanish-language nouveau-eighties electropop, vintage rock, and cumbia.

Event Flier for email

CINEMAROSA: Queens Only Queer Film Series

Sunday, January 21, 3 - 6 pm

KILLED OR BE KILLED Joshua Sanchez (USA, 2004, 13 min)
After his parent's divorce and his mother's departure, 13 years old David is headed down a dangerous path. Neglected by his alcoholic father, Paul, David takes solace in shoplifting, violent video games and drugs. One day, David forms an unexpected secret friendship with Edward, the geeky new kid in town. Their friendship is tested after David and Edward have an intimate encounter that reveals David's closely guarded secrets.

LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP Rob Williams (USA, 2006, 97 min)
When liberal Glen and conservative Adam meet through the personal ads, sparks fly in a good way. But they must overcome sexual and political issues, as well as pressure from friends, in order to build and sustain a long-term relationship.

Visit Cinemarosa's website for more info.

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