Past Exhibitions - Page 5

A four-sided set of blinds that take up the majority of an exhibition floor. The blinds are hanging from the ceiling and are raised to reveal a rectangular section of hardwood floor embedded into the exhibition floor. On the hardwood floors is a round, black rug with white plastic chairs arranged in a circle. In the center of the chairs is a cylindrical stand displaying several monitors.
Exhibition 2020

After the Plaster Foundation, or, “Where can we live?”
A black and white photograph of five people sitting in the back row of a bus. The people are of different racial backgrounds and genders. Their arms are crossed and they are sinking into the back seat. The fatigue of public transport is written on their face. Behind them are two round windows framing road they are passing over and a sign the reads “No Smoking” in all caps.
Exhibition 2020

Bruce Davidson
Outsider on the Inside
A corner view of an exhibition space. Colorful two-dimensional works, framed with white mat board, are installed on the corner wall. Against the longer wall is a gray, display table with more colorful, two-dimensional artworks on display beneath a sheet of glass.
Exhibition 2020

Ulrike Müller and Amy Zion
The Conference of the Animals
A red graphic with three, black and bold words stacked to form a single column. Each word is crossed out with thick, black line.
Exhibition 2019

Free Verse
My Word(s) – These are the tools I trust
A close up view of iridescent shards of glass. The shards of glass are in different colors and patterns. Some have stripes, some of swirls and some have spots. Each piece has a glow or sheen to it.
Exhibition 2018

Tiffany’s Iridescence: Glass in Rainbow Hues
A car dashboard view, at sunset, on a three lane highway. The sky is clear and fades from blue to a soft yellow at the horizon. The road is also relatively clear with a few cars at a distance. Overlayed on the view is the date and time in the bottom, left corner and a magenta laser, target designator.
Exhibition 2019

American Artist
My Blue Window
An embroidered painting depicting a nature scene spilling out of a mosaic pattern. The scene is of a green field and a cloudy blue sky. In the sky is a single bird flying overhead and in the field is a nude human figure with a sphere in hand. The sphere has a snake-like shape curling around it and the figure is looking ahead ready to take aim at the bird with the sphere.
Exhibition 2019

Nicolas Moufarrege
Recognize My Sign
A four-sided set of blinds that take up the majority of an exhibition floor. The blinds are hanging from the ceiling and are raised to reveal a rectangular, red carpet embedded into the exhibition floor. Spread out on the carpet is a few fiber arts sculptures made of salvaged denim. Visitors of different ages are laying on and nestled into the sculptures. On the perimeter of the red carpet is a series of floor-to-ceiling curtains, made out of salvaged t-shirts stitched together.
Exhibition 2019

Pia Camil
Fade into black: sit, chill, look, talk, roll, play, listen, give, take, dance, share
A two-story mural, of abstracted garden patterns and imagery in an empty exhibition space. Descending from the top right corner is a twisting flight of stairs. The first two-thirds of the mural, starting from the left, is mostly green and depicts a person standing in a field. As you move towards the right you see flowers in warm colors and a yellow butterfly. Then the green abruptly stops and a yellow scene begins with more flowers in different colors and a brown butterfly.
Exhibition 2018

Heidi Howard and Liz Phillips
Relative Fields in a Garden
A United States Postal Service Stamp with a cartoon image. The image is of a man sitting at brown dinning table against a yellow backdrop. At the table is a soup bowl, silverware, and a glass of red wine. The man is wearing a black suit jacket with a blue vest. Placed on his head is a contraption with 14 steps. Starting with him pulling a spoon that prompts a domino effect ending with a duster fanning his spoonful of soup to cool it down.
Exhibition 2019

Rube Goldberg
The Art of Rube Goldberg
Three immigrant women stand in front of a red backdrop with their faces turned away. Each of them are wearing yellow cleaning gloves and are holding a power fist above their heads. On the back of their matching green t-shirts is a yellow apple with the words “Apple Eco cleaning co-op”circling the apple and sitting within a thin yellow circle. Below the circle, in the same yellow is the Apple Eco cleaning co-op’s email and phone number.
Exhibition 2019

Sol Aramendi
Workers’ Studio: El Co-op
A map of New York City illustrating the city block grid. Spread across the five boroughs are lime green dots with varying diameters. Connecting a number of dots are curved red lines. Overlayed on the map is a pixelated image of a person crouching down with their attention towards the ground.
Exhibition 2019

Who Takes Care of New York?
A exhibition space with a relief map of New York City’s water system installed on the floor. Surrounding the relief map is navy blue walls with a mixed-media collage and painting installation. The installation has an organic shape and is made of mostly blue, brown and yellow tones.
Exhibition 2018

Camille Hoffman
Ever Upward, Ever Afloat
A group of Latinx women and children gathered in a park pathway. At the center, a few of the women are holding up a red-orange banner with the phrase “La Vida Es Bonita” embroidered with blue, green, and purple thread. Towards the right is a woman and child proudly holding up matching light blue pillows with colorful, floral embroidered patterns.
Exhibition 2019

La Vida es Bonita / Life is Beautiful
A black sculpture installed on an exhibition floor. The sculpture as a cylindrical base and has six ribbed coils sprouting out of it.
Exhibition 2019

Alexandria Smith
Monuments to an Effigy
A black sculpture installed on an exhibition floor. The sculpture as a cylindrical base and has six ribbed coils sprouting out of it.
Exhibition 2019

Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas
A square quilt made up of 64 smaller squares patches and a thin white perimeter. The first square, on the top left, has the words “Memories Migration Common Thread” embroidered on a white patch with black thread. Each of the other patches are made up of different colors with either abstract shapes, letters, or motifs.
Exhibition 2019

Making Community Story Quilts
A large quilt hangs from ceiling of an exhibition wall. The square quilt is made up of eight rectangular patches. Each patch is made up with different patterns, colors, and motifs and has the name of a community member lost to AIDs in large font.
Exhibition 2019

WorldPride | Stonewall 50 AIDS Memorial Quilt: Block 13
A figure in a red bodysuit and large bundle of icy blue fabric covering the top half of their body walking across a driveway. In the background is a yellow building with red garage doors and a sign that reads “Jaime’s Used Tires”.
Exhibition 2019

Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art: Alien Skins
An animated image of tiny, mauve cubes floating equidistant from each other to form a grid. First, the cubes are floating above a surface of the same color where they are casting their shadows. The cubes then melt into a rippled blob and the words “Queens International 2018 Volumes” appear in an off-white font.
Exhibition 2018

Queens International 2018: Volumes
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