Past Exhibitions - Page 6

A creek site where four women are engaged in research. The creek is a shimmery brown and sprawls out from the top right corner. There are small rock boulders and dense vegetation at the borders. Three of the women are crouched in the creek with their attention below the shallow water's surface. The fourth is up above with a clear view of the rest of the group. They are all dressed casually. Two of them are wearing floppy hats and three of them have bags strapped over their shoulders.
Exhibition 2016

Chance Ecologies: Queens
An architectural rendering of a futuristic pavilion set in a park. The main part of the pavilion has a white, bulbous shape and is gracing the sky on white cylindrical columns, planted in the ground in a circle. Within the pavilion is a group of mature trees and a gridded glass sealing that mimics the topography of the tree canopy. Down at the ground are tiny specs of people that demonstrate the grand scale of the pavilion.
Exhibition 2016

Pavilion Futures: The New York State Pavilion Ideas Competition
A white text slide that reads “2016 Queens Int’l” in red, uppercase font. Each character is made up of tiny red lines.
Exhibition 2016

Queens International 2016
A black and white photograph of the members of punk band, The Ramones. The four band members are posing in an alley filled with junk. They each have long, shaggy hair with bangs, are wearing skinny jeans, t-shirts, and black, leather jackets. Each has a cool and tough expression on their face.
Exhibition 2016

Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk
A white exhibition wall with milk crates hanging in a cross shape. The outer facing surface of the crates have been spray painted, starting from the center and radiating out, yellow, orange, white, blue, green, and yellow again. Around the cross are paper cut out images of community members and famous people wearing La Calavera face paint. Propped up on the milk crate cross is a black, round sign with a brown power fist and the phrase “Corazón Indígena Por Las Vida Negras”. Below, at the gallery floor, is a row of chakra candles in different colors.
Exhibition 2016

Joining Struggles IMI Corona Exhibition 2015-2016
A black and white family portrait of a middle-aged man and woman, and a young woman. They are sitting in a living space and dressed in traditional Gurung clothing. The young woman is holding a round object with an illustration of a religious deity. At all three of their feet sits a bowl with pebbles and a lily-pad. Written on the photograph in white is Gurung script.
Exhibition 2016

Mother Tongues: Endangered Languages in NYC and Beyond
A comicstrip of a South Asian woman, astronaut wading through a polluted body of water filled with junk. Behind her is a red, industrial cityscape smoking the sky. At the top, the comic strip reads “What can we say about her as we sit here, caught in the throes of circular time, warming our flayed soles by the fire? Under her skin the rise and fall: of immortal jellyfish, of unspoken pleas & mechanical hands—selfsame shards of this tumultuous universe…{a sigh of the crossroads?} Tattoo her onto the city’s skin, stroke by stroke by stroke.”.
Exhibition 2016

welcome to what we took from is the state
The interior of a home including, a small kitchen, a dining table, a shelf, a second story office space, and a couch. In each area of the interior, common household items have been placed on the surfaces, like a pitcher of flowers, books, a stand mixer, and a purse. However each item in the space is flat and stylized.
Exhibition 2015

Catalyst: New Projects by Meredith James, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Casey Tang
Twelve painted portraits of Chairman Mao Zedong arranged in a grid of four by three. Each portrait captures his likeness but something about each representation is distorted. Features appear in the wrong place, are fragmented, he is interacting with an object in the composition, or has a new feature like a mustache, animal ears, and pigtails.
Exhibition 2015

Zhang Hongtu
An exposition poster of an illustration depicting a coastline made up of a cityscape and a collection of pavilions, separated by a freeway. Towering above the pavilions is a bridge connecting the two stretches of land, holding an inlet. In the water are a number of boats. In the bottom left corner is a rectangle with the date “1933”, “A Century of Progress”, and “Chicago” written in it.
Exhibition 2015

Designing Eye: Exposition Posters from 1893 – 2000
Three framed portraits of Black elderly women. They are each dressed elegantly and smiling against colorful patterned backgrounds. The framed portraits are sitting on a black, blue, and gold floral background.
Exhibition 2016

Engaging Artists: A selection of works from More Art’s 2015 Engaging Artists Residency
A black and white photograph of a white male, magician. He is standing on a platform and dressed in a tailcoat. In one hand he has a magic stick pointing towards his other hand, holding a top hat. In the background is Queens and the pavilions for the New York Fairs.
Exhibition 2014

Behind the Curtain: Collecting the New York Fairs
A two-story mural made up of collaged images from the natural environment, evoking mostly green and blue tones. Layered over these images is a thick, white crosshatch (x shape) pattern. Descending from the top right is a twisting flight of stairs. At the bottom is an empty museum floor.
Exhibition 2015

Mickalene Thomas
Untitled
Two rows of five full-length photographed portraits of first-generation migrants from Queens. The subjects of each portrait range in age, racial background, and gender. They are photographed in varying indoor and outdoor settings throughout Queens.
Exhibition 2015

Bordr
What Border Have You Crossed?
A photograph of an interior space with peeling, cracked wall paint and de-tiled floors. The wall paint is a warm yellow, with swashes of red and blue. On the furthest wall is an entryway leading to another room. On the left wall is another entryway that leads outside and a window. Sunlight is casting into the interior from both the window and entryway.
Exhibition 2015

inToAsia: TBA Festival 2015 – Architectural Landscapes: SEA in the Forefront
An exhibition room with white and gray walls. Starting on the left wall is a block of exhibition text, the featured artist’s name, followed by the show title; “Robert Seydel, The Eye in Matter”. Following the wall text is a series of framed and matted collages that wrap around three walls. On the exhibition floor are two white display cases.
Exhibition 2015

Robert Seydel
The Eye in Matter
An exhibition space with artworks on the perimeter walls. At the center of the space is a set of four-sided, white blinds raised to reveal a section of hardwood floor embedded into the exhibition floor.
Exhibition 2015

After Midnight: Indian Moderns and Contemporary Indian Art
An exhibition room with large, two-dimensional artworks and sculptures hanging from the walls. On the exhibition floor is a sculpture of a dark blue, four-legged animal. The animal’s face is covered by a blue Tostitos chip bag.
Exhibition 2015

2013-2015 Studio Program Exhibition
Graffiti art, of stylized green vegetation, different colored flowers, and a blue bird against a white wall. The wall is torn on the edges, revealing a brick wall underneath.
Exhibition 2015

Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara)
Respectfully Yours
A cream text slide that reads “An Inclusive World” in green, san serif font. Paired with the text are three nude female figures. The figures have long, black hair and their bodies are made of collaged newsprint. Layered over their bodies and hair is bright, colorful paint and lettering.
Exhibition 2015

An Inclusive World
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