http://www.queensmuseum.org Queen Museum - RSS feed Exhibitions Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/faces-facts-korean-contemporary-art-in-new-york 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/partnership-gallery-art-inspired-by-the-day-of-the-dead-dia-de-los-muertos Opening: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 3 - 6 pm In 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, a group of retired New York City businessmen decided to create an international exposition to lift the city and the country out of despair. What resulted was the transformation of an ash heap ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/o-zhang-cutting-the-blaze-to-new-frontiers Opening: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 3 - 6 pm 5:00 pm: Republik of Perpetual Reconstitution and Rebuild presents "Composition for Viola, House Painters and Well Tempered Juke Box" Music: Cello Suite #6 in D Johann Sebastian Bach Viola: Sam Quintal House Painters: Richard Simmons, Emil Bakalli, and Daniel Bozhkov Daniel Bozhkov has found inspiration in ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/daniel-bozhkov-a-republic-of-perpetual-reconstituting-and-rebuilding Opening: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 3 - 6 pm 4:30 pm: Lara Allen delivering her rendition of the National Anthem Duke Rileys Those About to Die Salute You is the second installment of a multi-part residency that began with a recreation of a Romanesque bread and circus naval battle or naumachia that ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/duke-riley-those-about-to-die-salute-you 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/fitz-maurice-common-ground 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/josiah-mcelheny-yard-junkyard-19612009 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/indo-american-arts-council-erasing-borders-2009-exhibition-of-contemporary-indian-art-of-the-diaspora The works on display by the participants of the New New Yorkers' Photography I, II and III, Basic Drawing, Media and Performance, and Tools for Learning English courses largely reflect the thoughts, feelings and artistic concerns of an immigrant population who is actively involved with their community, and who is ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/here-i-am-selections-from-the-new-new-yorkers-program The Queens Museum of Art's ArtAccess program presents the third joint student art exhibition between Austin H. MacCormick Island Academy, Horizon Academy and Passages Academy. Please join us in the QMA's Partnership Gallery for a celebration of this unique exhibition and enjoy student art work, spoken word, performances, music and ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/underestimate-me%e2%80%a6no-more 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/red-lines-housing-crisis-learning-center-2 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, ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/work-in-progress-dorothea-rockburnes-homage-to-colin-powell 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/launch-pad-artist-project-johanna-unzueta-iron-folklore 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 ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/tarjamatranslation In 2000, the US census revealed the borough of Queens to be the most diverse county in the nation. Two years later, the Queens Museum of Art inaugurated Queens International, a biennial exhibition of artists from around the world who live and/or work in Queens. Celebrating the most recent artistic ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/queens-international-4 The Queens Museum of Art will break ground later this year on an expansion project that will double the size of the institution and usher in a new phase in the museum's history. In the period leading up to and through construction, the museum will be embracing our state of ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/launch-pad-artist-residency-o-zhang The Queens Musuem and the Indo-American Arts Council are proud to present Erasing Borders 2008: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora. This exhibition series, now in its fifth year, is curated by Vijay Kumar and presents the work of forty artists, who utilize a myriad of ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/erasing-borders-2008-an-exhibition-of-contemporary-indian-art-of-the-diaspora Pedro Meyer’s Heresies is a retrospective exhibition comprising four decades of work by one of the world’s most inventive photographers in the realm of digital photography. Meyer began his career in the early 1960’s, taking pictures on the streets of Mexico City. Since then, he has traveled extensively throughout the world, ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/pedro-meyer-heresies By holding fast to the Reason of the ancients, the present is mastered, and the origin of the past understood. This is called Reason’s Clue. – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, the 6th Century B.C. text by Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, Reason’s Clue focuses on contemporary ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/reasons-clue Stephen Talasnik, Panorama: The Mapping of Prediction, presents thirteen architecturally inspired drawings measuring up to twelve feet in length from Talasnik's Panorama series. The exhibition captures his trademark use of architectural forms, transforming the monolithic - urban landscapes, labyrinthine transportation systems and forms from the World's Fair - into the ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/stephen-talasnik-panorama-the-mapping-of-prediction The Queens Museum of Art has commissioned four temporary, site-specifc artworks in Corona Plaza (103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue), just a few blocks away from the Museum's home in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. For this second volume of commissioned projects, QMA has invited Sara Reisman to act as curator. These ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/corona-plaza-center-of-everywhere-v2  (QMA AT BULOVA CORPORATE CENTER) Informed by a Do-It-Yourself spirit, Jane South's structures come from a combination of ample patience and basic engineering know-how. When her early use of industrial materials gave way to the more modest mediums of tape, balsa wood, and paper, South created a new language for ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/jane-south-deceptive-volume-2 Informed by a Do-It-Yourself spirit, Jane South's structures come from a combination of ample patience and basic engineering know-how. When her early use of industrial materials gave way to the more modest mediums of tape, balsa wood, and paper, South created a new language for exploring urban forms. Neither simply ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/jane-south-deceptive-volume The Marigold flower is a symbol of joy and celebration in many cultures. Marigold plants are also used for medicinal purposes and used as pigment in yellow paint. The artist, Silke Kästner, invited people from the neighborhood of Corona, the Museum, and the stores around Corona Plaza to repot one of ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/marigold-marigold-marigold-%e2%80%93-a-mobile-yellow-garden-for-corona-plaza Years before the official Civil Rights Movement galvanized countless Americans, the Pepsi Corporation boldly took steps to integrate corporate America from as early as 1940. Based on Stephanie Capparell's groundbreaking book, THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE: The Inspirational Story of Breaking the Color Barrier in American Business, (Wall Street ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/the-real-pepsi-challenge-breaking-the-color-barrier-in-american-business On a cold January evening, residents of 475 Kent Avenue, live/work artist lofts on the south waterfront of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, were evacuated from their home by the FDNY. As a city, New York prides itself as one of the world's foremost cultural epicenters, made possible by the creative and diverse ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/475-kent-lives In the new millennium, religion, its relation to the state and mutual respect are hot-button issues across the globe. In Flushing, Queens, this very conversation started 350 years ago with the Flushing Remonstrance. The Flushing Remonstrance was drafted in 1657 and signed by a group of Flushing residents who were ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/this-case-of-conscience%e2%80%9d-spiritual-flushing-and-the-remonstrance The Texaco Road Map is the large-scale terrazzo art pavement commissioned for the New York State Pavilion.  Designed by renowned American architect Philip Johnson for the 1964/65 World’s Fair, the Pavilion is located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, next door to the Queens Museum of Art (former home of the ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/back-on-the-map-revisiting-the-new-york-state-pavilion-at-the-196465-worlds-fair Anthony Auerbach’s installation Empire State Pavilion reflects on one of the most memorable features of the 1964/1965 World’s Fair. Like the New York City Pavilion, which housed The Panorama of the City of New York, the New York State Pavilion contained a miniature representation of the whole state in the ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/anthony-auerbach-empire-state-pavilion Traditionally museums have been defined by what they collect. The generosity of collectors, artists, and friends through the years has endowed the Queens Museum of Art with art work of both contemporary and historical significance that have reshaped our collection. What was once a collection known primarily for the ever-popular ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/the-gift-2008 The metropolis of New York differentiates itself from the rest of the United States in dialectical opposition. For instance, many “American” factors are incongruous to New York society and reality, and are abhorrent to those who hold dear for instance the Protestant values of the American states. The recent rise ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/new-york-states-of-mind Having left her home country of India when she was 14 to come to Queens, New York, Jaishri Abichandani knows what it means to reconcile different worlds. She has analyzed her relationship to those worlds through photography, her first medium, by using herself as a subject and then expanding to ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/jaishri-abichandani-reconciliations Yue Minjun’s first museum show in the U.S. will open at the Queens Museum of Art on October 14th, 2007.  One of the leading figures in the Beijing-based movement of "Cynical Realism" that emerged following the 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Yue Minjun has since become a pioneering figure ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/yue-minjun-and-the-symbolic-smile The Queens Museum of Art introduces the work of Il Lee (b. 1952), a Korean-born artist living and working in Brooklyn since 1977. Using disposable ballpoint pens, Lee creates dramatic ink fields on surfaces of canvas and paper. For this exhibition, he will present a selection of large format blue ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/il-lee-ballpoint-drawings If a person comes to America as an adult, he or she is referred to as a first generation immigrant. Children of immigrants are called second generation.  But, if they come when they are in their adolescence, they are called generation 1.5. The 1.5 generation is a group of people ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/generation-15 June 10 - October 14 at the QMA & July 1 - October 14, 2007 at Corona Plaza, Queens Location: Corona Plaza, Roosevelt Avenue, between 104th Street and National Street. #7-train to 103rd Street-Corona Plaza. QMA has commissioned four emerging artists to produce temporary site-specific art in Corona Plaza just a few ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/corona-plaza-center-of-everywhere-four-site-specific-projects Liao's dynamic large scale panoramic photographs invite a reconsideration of the ways in which modern societies evolves around the manmade river basins of today. Liao's vivid photgraphs explore "The International Express" revealing hybrid communities along the train's route. For millennia, civilizations have laid their roots along the fertile banks of major ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/jeff-chien-hsing-liao-habitat-7-2 The Queens Museum of Art is proud to present the first American exhibition of the work of Grimshaw. This world renowned firm, with offices in London, Melbourne, and, since 2001, in New York, has made its presence known throughout the world with projects such as the revolutionary Eden Project (Cornwall, ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/macro-to-micro-grimshaw-in-new-york “We are rebuilding New York, not dispersing and abandoning it.” --Robert Moses, 1956 New York’s master builder, Robert Moses (b. 1888; d. 1981), will be the subject of concurrent exhibitions on view at the Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park), the Museum of the City ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/robert-moses-and-the-modern-city-the-road-to-recreation GO ECO is an interactive installation that illuminates the different perspectives of several participants involved in a wetland preservation project. The concept is metaphorically based on the ancient Asian game of Go, (originally, one of the Four Arts of China along with music, painting, and poetry) which uses strategies to ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/lillian-ball-go-eco Erasing Borders: Indian Artists in the American Diaspora, on view at the Queens Museum of Art from February 4 through March 4, 2007, presents a diverse collection of work produced by 16 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian Subcontinent. A multi-generational selection of artists negotiates Indian and ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/erasing-borders-indian-artists-in-the-american-diaspora Too close to sun, wings melting in the heat our fathers dive-bombed here, no small feat like Junot said – he’s el Jefe at home, a janitor in Queens – epic, unsung poems of immigrants, dethroned: no laurel wreaths to crown their humbled heads, no time to rest weary feet. And I’d wonder: how many fish ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/queens-international-2006-everything-all-at-once Bing Lee's site-specific murals, collectively titled Multiple Blanks, at Bulova Corporate Center Satellite Gallery are populated with iconography from an ongoing, personal pictorial alphabet inspired by forms the artist sees on T.V. and in real life. Stationed ambiguously near the intersection of writing, pictorial narrative and abstract surrealism, the murals ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/bing-lee-multiple-blanks Propia Visión highlights the work of nineteen participating photographers, who responded to an open call to collaborate in this ground-breaking exhibition. As the title suggests, Propia Visión focuses on what we, as Mexican photographers who have lived and worked in New York, experience in our daily lives. Immigrant artists must transform ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/propia-vision-our-vision Solitario (1998) portrays a group of girls and boys playing on the ring after a wrestling match has finished. As they mimic their wrestling idols, they battle chaotically one against another. Meanwhile the action slowly progresses and following an adult voice we hear a chorus of children shouting “Solitario,” the ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/carlos-amorales Saida (2005, single-channel video) offers a reflection on the construction of subjectivity through performative acts. It focuses on a young girl dancing during a family event in Egypt. Employing a formal strategy of visual isolation her body language becomes accentuated, revealing the fluidity between self-awareness and self-absorption. In her performance, ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/graciela-fuentes Don’t Let Money Rule Over Art The Queens Museum dedicated a specific budget of $300 for production of the work. What can I do in daily life with $300? -Two weeks worth of groceries -One-third of a month’s rent -Four months worth of metrocard -Fill up the gas tank seven times -Pay four months worth of ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/diego-medina-dont-let-money-rule-over-art The Real Story of the Superheroes The Mexican immigrant worker in New York is a perfect example of a hero who has gone largely unrecognized. Mexican workers in New York commonly work excessive hours in extreme conditions for very low wages. The hard-earned money is saved at great sacrifice to ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/dulce-pinzon Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao immigrated to Vancouver from Taiwan when he was 18, eventually making his way to New York to study art and photography at Pratt Institute and The School of Visual Arts. After building a body of work, Liao submitted his portfolio to the New York Times and won ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/jeff-chien-hsing-liao-habitat-7 The inhabitants of one of the largest cities in the world are exposed to inexhaustible stimuli of all kinds. In the presence of such a vast amount of fortuitous and random information, the free and playful association of images triggered the decision to publish a book on the experience of ... http://www.queensmuseum.org/abcdf-portraits-of-mexico-city