December 06 – February 21, 2010
Opening Reception December 6, 2009, 3-6 pm
For 30 years the Korean Cultural Service of New York (KCSNY) has promoted the outstanding talents of emergent and internationally acclaimed Korean artists throughout New York. In commemoration of this anniversary KCSNY presents the exhibition Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York featuring more than 60 [...]
November 29 – December 20, 2009
QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development presents
FRAMING AIDS 2009
QUEENS’ ANNUAL OBSERVANCE OF WORLD AIDS DAY THROUGH THE ARTS
On View November 29 - Dec 20, 2009
FRAMING AIDS 2009 is the fifth annual exhibition presented by QMAD in observance of World AIDS Awareness in December. This year’s selection is based on the healthcare reform proposed by the Obama [...]
May 10 – November 28, 2009
Iron Folklore is an extensive site-specific installation work by Johanna Unzueta as part of the QMA’s Launch Pad Artist Residency and Project program. Drawing from her recurrent interest in the history of labor, Unzueta creates sculptural and environmental installations often made exclusively of thick felt.
Iron Folklore occupies the museum’s elevator and the second floor balcony [...]
November 01 – November 15, 2009
The Queens Museum of Art’s New Yorkers Program and Local Project present the Death Collective; 4 different artists and their perspective of Heaven, Purgatory, Hell and Earthly Existence. The resulting collaborative installation results in a contemplation about destiny and choice.
Death Collective is: Miguel Luciano, Carla Torres, Calder Zwicky and Riley Hooker, and the exhibition is [...]
October 21 – October 25, 2009
Opening Reception October 22, 2009 6:00-8:00pm
Fitz Maurice is an artist well recognized for expressing international issues and values in her work. Born in Westchester, NY, she received her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Fitz Maurice received the Pollock- Krasner Foundation award in 2001, and participated in the 2001 Florence Biennale and the 2002 [...]
September 13 – October 11, 2009
Indo American Arts Council Erasing Borders 2009 Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora.
20 million people of Indian origin shifted countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. Implicit in the term Diaspora are the concepts of change and adaptation. Cultural dislocation generally produces unexpected and powerful results. Subject matter is often drawn from the [...]
September 23 – October 04, 2009
YARD, 1961 ALLAN KAPROW
Yard (Junkyard) is a ten-day event at the Queens Museum of Art, an attempt at re-inventing the ethos of Allan Kaprow’s Yard, in particular the first variant of the work, from 1961.
“My version is a massive projection of a panoramic aerial photograph depicting a unique site in New York: the [...]
May 10 – September 27, 2009
Reshuffling the pertinence of geographical boundaries through the multivalent practices of translation, this unprecedented exhibition features artists from the Middle East, Central Asia and its diasporas. The exhibition examines the different ways with which artists engage with people, objects, images, and ideas traveling across geographic spaces, media forms, histories, and personal contexts. Encompassing a variety [...]
May 31 – September 27, 2009
Melding Sesame Street graphics with do-it-yourself investigations into the intricacies of real estate finance, artist and designer Damon Rich collects the history and material culture behind the current economic crisis into an experimental site for reflection and learning. Explore the threatening spikes and troughs of interest rates in the form of a plywood construction 40 [...]
May 18 – September 16, 2009
On June 9, 2009, Montreal-born American artist Dorothea Rockburne began work on a 40-foot mural in the Queens Museum’s Large Triangle Gallery. Destined for the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, this new work was commissioned by the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) and honors General Colin Powell, whose parents were from Jamaica. [...]