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Saturday, May 21, 2011

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Spring 2011: Queens College CUNY MFA new Website!

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

matt greco thesis exhibition

Opening Reception Friday May 13th 2011 6-9pm
Klapper Hall Gallery
Queens College

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

March 25, 2011. 7-9pm: QCMFA Group Exhibition at NYStudio Gallery

Crosscurrents:
Queens College MFA Group Exhibition at The NY Studio Gallery
Curated by: Omar Lopez-Chahoud

Opening Reception: Friday, March 25, 2011 from 7-9pm
M FA Creative Writing Reading: Saturday, March 26, 2011 *time TBA*
Exhibition: Wednesday, March 23 through Saturday, April 2, 2011

NY Studio Gallery
154 Stanton St.
@ Suffolk in the LES
JMZ or F trains to Delancey / Essex
New York, NY 10002
www.nystudiogallery.com
212.627.3276

The Queens College CUNY MFA Program presents “Crosscurrents,” an exhibition of nineteen Master of Fine Arts degree candidates. The show will be on view from March 23 to April 2, 2011, and the Opening Reception will be held on Friday, March 25, from 7:00- 9:00pm. Embracing methods of drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video, the works of these emerging artists reflect the innovative and interdisciplinary spirit of the Queens College CUNY MFA Program.

Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, the exhibition showcases work by Lisa Candage, James Cassidy, Joyce Chan, Pansum Cheng, Karen Cintron, Becky Franco, Matthew F. Greco, Patty Harris, Osaretin Ighile, Kaitlin M. Kelty, Henry Kielmanowicz, Thea Lanzisero, Matthew Palmer, Antonia A. Perez, Aaron Schraeter, Kim Sheridan, Willliam Steinman, Joanna Sztencel, and Debra Zechowski.

A “crosscurrent” is defined as a current flowing into or across another current. Similarly, the artists at Queens College represent a culturally and ethnically diverse group working within one of the most cosmopolitan areas within the United States. Their wide-ranging approaches in art-making, coupled with a strong interest in the neighborhood’s local communities, allowed them a unique opportunity in their creative processes – processes that occur at the intersection of the profoundly new and the traditional, that invert the private and domestic space into the public sphere, and that reconstitute and transform cast-off materials.

For example, Osaretin Ighile's industrial debris collected from garbage dumpsters morph into beautiful sculptures such as the portrait of President Obama. Antonia A. Perez's assemblages of everyday consumer products transform into formal, delicate, abstract works. Artists such as Joyce Chan and Karen Citron explore traditional materials such as paper through weaving and collage. Becky Franco's haunting paintings of domestic spaces blur the line between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Indeed, the Queens College location is a fertile ground for these artists to emerge.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Access Restricted: Gregory Sholette, March 9, 2011

“Make History Now”

Seaport Museum New York, 12 Fulton Street

RSVP goes live Tuesday, March 1, 12PM

A conversation between Greg Sholette, artist, author, activist, co-founder, REPOhistory and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College, New York, and John Kuo Wei Tchen, public historian, dumpster diver, co-founder of the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas and Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Gallatin School, New York University, moderated by Frederick Kaufman, Professor at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.

How can local history become a tool to reclaim time and space from master narratives? When is the process of forgetting convenient for urban development? And how has history itself become a hip marketable means of gentrification? This evening’s conversation will touch upon REPOhistory’s Lower Manhattan Sign Project (1992) and Tchen's "below the grid" history of the intermingled and creative port culture of Mannahatta, informing a discussion of the politics of public space. The Seaport Museum attic space once housed the old Fulton Ferry Hotel.

Outstanding NYC area MFA Faculty Exhibition @ NYAA

Professors Arthur Cohen, Tyrone Mitchell, and Maureen Connor in
"Put Up or Shut Up"

February 10-March 6, 2011
Reception: Wednesday, February 9 6-9pm

Wilkinson Gallery, NY Academy of Art

Sunday, January 30, 2011

The QCMFA Club Presents: Tania Bruguera, February 1st

The QCMFA Club Presents:

Tania Bruguera

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
4:30pm
Klapper Hall 672

Performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera will be working with the Queens College Studio Art department over the course of the next year. This collaboration is in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art and Creative Time. Tania is creating a project about immigration and the borough of Queens