Past Exhibitions

About the Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted To Know)

March 10 – July 07, 2002

About The Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted To Know) is a selection of video that engages in different perspectives of everyday consciousness through the restructured time and space of the medium. Some artists strategically utilize the parameters of the monitor to simulate psychological states through the use of extreme closeups and editing: exaggeration and [...]

Rom of Ridgewood

March 22 – July 07, 2002

The Queens Museum of Art (QMA) explores the mystical world of the boroughís Rom (Gypsy) communities, as seen through the lens of photographer Yale Strom, in the exhibition Rom of Ridgewood, on view March 22 to July 7, 2002. This candid exhibition of photographs capture the Rom in their everyday surroundingsin church, at work, and [...]

Designing the Future: The Queens Museum of Art and The New York City Building

March 10 – July 07, 2002

Designing the Future: The Queens Museum of Art and the New York City Building is a story about transformation. It is about the growth of the Queens Museum of Art in the New York City Building over the past 30 years; and about the life of this structure as its function and identity change from [...]

In the Flow: Artists from The Living Museum

Issa Abrahim, Follow the Leader, oil on canvas, 1994

March 10 – July 07, 2002

The therapeutic value of art has long been observed, but only recently understood. Throughout history, countless individuals have experienced the healing powers of art, using their creative talents to sooth the psyche, uplift spirits, and nurse emotional wounds. Nowhere is this phenomenon better understood than at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, a state institution in Queens [...]