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Voices from the Silence: Art, Immigration, and Identity

02.09.22, 7:00 pm

An exhibition space with text and image based art along its two longest walls. In the center is two, flat screens on tripods facing back-to-back. The screens are centered on a red, oriental rug, in between two, brown leather armchairs. On the screen facing forward is a man against a white backdrop. His form is blurred and gestural in a way that implies movement.

Julian Louis Phillips
The Strategic Response Group (TSRG)

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

A white exhibition wall with a series of objects on display. Starting on the left is a Mexican flag fashioned into a dress hanging on a clothes hanger. Centered, is a framed certificate, a framed portrait of Lorena Borjas, and a framed magazine cover featuring Lorena Borjas. On the right is a gold handbell sitting on a white, exhibition shelf. In front of the wall is a long, rectangular display case.

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo
En recuerdo de Lorena Borjas (In Remembrance of Lorena Borjas)

10.30.21 – 02.13.22

On a white exhibition wall you find two art pieces. The piece on the left is a small acrylic painting of tourists visiting Mount Rushmore. On the right is a tryptic of paintings. The first two are on stretched canvas of the same size and the third is on a larger piece of canvas. All three of them have the phrase “am I lovely” in pink, bubbly letters. The first two are depictions of South Asian women, dressed in traditional garments applying or holding bleaching cream and the third shares images and text about beauty standards.

Sakhi for South Asian Women
Inherent Power

10.30.21 – 02.13.22

A group of Latinx women pose for a photograph. They are sitting and standing in three rows on a glass stairway above a museum floor. They are each holding up their own embroidery work.

BordeAndo
Sentimientos en Comunidad

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

A group of people ranging in age, racial background, and gender pose for photograph in front of a mural. Everyone is dressed in casual fall attire and has a warm expression on their face. About half of the group is wearing masks. The mural in the background is made of horizontal stripes. From top to bottom are the colors blue, white, peach, golden–yellow, orange, and dark blue.

Malikah
What would the world look like, taste like, sound like, smell like, and feel like if ALL women were safe and could step into their power?

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

A exhibition room lit up by a slender, wooden light fixture. The light fixture is giving the room a warm tone. On the exhibition floor is dark, wooden panels arranged in a zigzag. Each panel has a unique cut out with a different vessel placed inside.

Mo Kong
Personal Ark

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

A white exhibition wall with a mural. The mural has a soft blue background and a bed of orange, blue, yellow, and pink flowers at the bottom. Hovering above the flowers is a smoking gun and four large bullets with the phrase “hurt people hurt people” written across them. Above that is a quote by MLK that reads “At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of Love” in orange cursive.

LIFE Camp
Kingdom Peace

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

Five colorful banners hang from the ceiling reading Proposal for a 28th Amendment?” And “Is it possible to amend an unequal system? in the five most spoken languages in Corona, NY. Below the banners, four visitors stand and lay on the five wooden colorful soapboxes in different arrangements.

Alex Strada & Tali Keren
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

An exhibition space with and assortment of classroom chairs arranged in a 3 x 3 square. The chairs are all facing an exhibition wall. On that wall is a projection of class in session overlayed on a back and white design sketch of classroom furniture.

Gabo Camnitzer
Glorious Wound

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

A black, title slide with four pieces of white text. The text shifts orientation from horizontal to vertical, along a “s” shape line on its side. From left to right the text reads: Year of Uncertainty, You, Phase Three, January through February 2022, Synthesize & Reflect, Sintetizar y Reflexionar, Queens Museum.

Year of Uncertainty (YoU) Phase III: Synthesize & Reflect

01.08.22 – 02.13.22

On a black podium a clear plexiglass box houses a plant growing out of a thin layer of soil. The plexiglass box has four metal vents and UV lights feeding the plant from above. The UV light in the box is bright and reflecting pinkish-purple light into the room. Framing the box is two sheets of lime-green plexiglass that have a cut-out mosaic pattern.

Utsa Hazarika
Living As A Nation

10.02.21 – 02.13.22

A blue wall has small white wall text on the left. In the middle, a large monitor with a blue water droplet displays ways to say 'water' across languages in the Algonquian language family. There is a large white wall text on the right: 'Tecumseh Ceaser Water Connects Us All'

Tecumseh Ceaser
Water Connects Us All

10.02.21 – 03.06.22

In the middle is a wooden table with two square wooden benches on both sides. On top of the wooden table are folded maps and a sewage game. To the right is a fake golden toilet across from a vitrine with objects found on Flushing Bay. There is a sign reading Flushing Creek with an arrow next to the vitrine of objects. To the left is a map of Flushing Bay and a table vitrine in front of it with a wooden bench.

Guardians of Flushing Bay
Field Station for Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek

10.02.21 – 03.06.22

Down a hallway, Photographs, news articles and video installations hang on a yellow and white wall with different Caribbean country flags, a rainbow LGBTQ+ flag, and Black Lives Matter flag, hanging from the ceiling in a row parallel to the wall. At the beginning of the hallway is a mannequin wearing a festive, bright colored, colorful, feathered, carnival outfit.

Caribbean Equality Project
Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics

12.04.21 – 03.06.22

Three Black adults sit in chairs forming a circle in what appears to be a classroom. They are dressed in business causal wear and have surgical masks on but tucked under their chins for a conversation. Behind them is a large poster with the logo for the Rockaway Development & Revitalization Cooperation.

Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation (RDRC)
A Pandemic World – Through Our Eyes

12.04.21 – 03.06.22

A black and white photo of a group of women of color standing in a circle. They are standing on a park lawn arms length apart from one another. Behind them are tall trees and an above ground railway.

Malikah: Building Power and Safety for Our Communities” and “TransLatinx Resilience against COVID-19”

09.18.21 – 03.30.22

Installed on the facade of the Queens Museum is a yellow, three part banner with the phrase “Dear Service Worker, “Thank you for keeping NYC alive!” for → forever…”, written in black ink. At the top of the building is a sign that reads “Queens Museum”.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
For ⟶ forever…

09.15.20 – 07.31.22

A night time scene of an outdoor dining table lined with folding chairs. Hiding the view of the table's surface, are water jars holding bouquets of wild green plants.

Wet Networks

10.30.21 – 09.18.22

Tiffany’s Lamps: Lighting Luxury

03.21.21 – Ongoing

Dr. Egon Neustadt sitting in a brown, cushioned chair. He is wearing a blue button up and gray slacks. His face is framed and lit up by a sea of glass lamps with different, colorful, mosaic patterns. Behind him is a large, blue and green, stain-glass window of a nature scene.

The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

On Long-Term View

A colorful mural on the sidewall of the museum portrays six Black Trans Femme icons. Marsha P.Johnson, Miss Major Griffin Gracy, Cayenne Doroshow, Qween Jean, Tourmaline, and Gia Love. The first person prominently stands out on the left side in a vibrant blue dress draped across the shoulder, while the person next to them wears a brown wrap skirt and ruffle blue top with one arm up in a fist. In the center is a person in a strapless bright orange dress holding it at the corner as they walk with an orange butterfly in their afro textured hair and music notes leave their lips. The next person is wearing a short blue skirt with a red top with a fist also in the air holding hands with a shadow of a smaller person. The last two people are, a person wearing a pink skirt with a white top in a motorized wheelchair and another person standing over their shoulder wearing yellow.

Glori Tuitt
Black, Trans, & Alive (Qweens Song)

10.01.21 – Ongoing

Roosevelt Island sits in the middle of the frame, with the Queensboro/Ed Kotch Bridge connecting Manhattan on the left and Queens on the right. Manhattan is densely populated with tall buildings, while this section of Queens has small housing buildings. In the back of the frame the Triboro Bridge and the Bronx are visible.

The Panorama of the City of New York

On Long-Term View

A dome like spherical model with curved lattice work on the roof and a horizontal wave like structure through the middle. Jutting out from the middle of the sphere are two walkways. The base of the sphere has grass, trees and three figurines walking around.

World’s Fair Collection

On Long-Term View

A 3D relief map of New York’s water system that was too large for the 1964 World's Fair. Now on permanent view the hilly terrain, the divets and rivers that the Catskills, Croton, and Delaware watersheds flow into are on display. Lights follow the path of aqueducts that lead to New York City.

The Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System

On Long-Term View

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