Alumni Debra Zechowski & Joyce Chan in Are You a Summer at Academic Gallery, Long Island City, Queens

Are You a Summer? 

curated by Melissa Walker

June 12- July 3, 2015

Opening Reception 

June 12, 2015

6-9pm

Participating Artists:

Joyce Chan

Kelly McCafferty

Anne Spurgeon

Debra Zechowski

Academic Gallery

47-39 35th Street, 2nd Floor
Long Island City, NY 11101
218-56-LEARN

Directions: 7 to 33rd St.

http://academicnyc.com/

The title, Are You a Summer?, comes from a make-up color system that identifies a person’s pigmentation by season naming them a winter, spring, fall or summer. It is likened to finding out a zodiac sign assigning rules to personality as well as defining what colors look best on you. This system assumes that one will be looked at and judged aesthetically. All four artists in this show have decided for themselves what they like and how they like their work to be looked at.

Kelly McCafferty’s works are aura laden, diary-like paintings that display more like shrines. Each object that is carefully attached to a work commemorates extremely intimate events for the artist while re-igniting viewers personal memories.

With a scavenger’s eye Anne Spurgeon creates self-defined trophies after “hunting” for objects on the street. She completely transforms her objects so that they visually pendulate from repurposed materials to animal-free hunting trophies.

Joyce Chan’s work investigates what Chinese-American identity can be, through her personal interactions, travels, and memory. Unsolicited interactions experienced in her day-to-day life record unfiltered experiences and become reframed as part drawing part photograph in her Sketchbook Series.

Debra Zechowski re-examines her family and herself in a monumental way by painting photographs from candid shots of daily life. The largest work of her two works in the show measures 7 by 8 feet and while both are not quite photorealistic they do not abstract the content, which is unavoidable and working class.

Photos from the Reception: 

Young Curators You Should Know About

New kinds of curators are emerging in the art world. Traditionally, curators have been concerned with presenting the works of a museum or gallery in relation to the institution's perspective. These 15 curators are instead focused on pushing boundaries to explore the digital and physical world in ways that challenge our assumptions and anxieties. They work to expand art as a practice and have put together shows that imagine what art could be. Young and disruptive, they will inspire you to see the world more clearly. Here are 15 Young Curators You Should Know About.

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2014/06/young-curators-you-should-know-about/

Joyce Chan(QCMFA '12) in The Intuitionists at The Drawing Center. July 10-August 24, 2014

Combining sculpture, drawing, and conceptual practices, Joyce Chan is interested in the inherent contradictions with her materials and ideas. She received an Master of Fine Arts ('12, Painting & Mixed Media) from Queens College CUNY and a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from Manhattanville College ('01). 

She will be participating in a group exhibition titled, The Intuitionists, at The Drawing Center, from July 11-August 24, 2014.

Reception: Thursday, July 10, 2014. 6-8pm

The Drawing Center35 Wooster St.New York, NY 10013

http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/20/events/21/public-programs/831/opening-reception/

PROJECT LUZ: the classroom, Art for all.

by Sol Aramendi

October 7th - 18th 10am-7pm

Opening; October 15th 5-8 pm

Klapper Hall Gallery, Queen College

(see directions below)

Sol Aramendi presents for her MFA Social Practice Thesis show, Project Luz: The Classroom Art for All. A series of classes and workshops for the College's members of the cleaning and custodian teams. All classes are free and open for the whole duration of the exhibition and have been designed to fit Queens College's staff members' schedules, their breaks, and changing shifts. 

Ms. Aramendi will lead photography classes for all levels and her fellow MFA classmates will teach Studio Art to collaborate with the project during the show. The exhibition consists of a series of spaces that present the processes, actions, together with their results, at the free temporary art school for the custodians of the College. Also on display is an installation including a selection of Ms. Aramendi's recent works developed outside (but intrinsic to) Project Luz.

Project Luz started at the artist's studio as a response to the need for change in her most immediate community. As Ms. Aramendi realized the lack of opportunities that both immigrant men and women (and even their families) had to access culture and the urban system, she organized workshops and classes for them. These events took place mostly in the evenings and weekends. Project Luz then started offering these classes at several cultural institutions, hospitals, and public libraries, among other places.

Ms. Aramendi is in constant search for opportunities to create an open space in which to discuss the role of the artist not only as an educator but also as a catalyst for social cooperation and change for the disempowered. The key is how artists and educators can provide anyone and everyone with access to information, culture and training in different disciplines, and make a difference. Based in Long Island City, Queens, Ms. Aramendi is the first Masters graduate of Fine Arts in Social Practice exclusively developed as a collaboration between the Queens Museum and Queens College.

Special Events:
Decolonization at Birth

Fridays, October 11 and 18 : In collaboration with Yaocihuatzin, who holds a PhD in Education focused in the opportunity of freedom and independency from the moment of birth. Both Fridays will include a session of free portraits for pregnant and breastfeeding women and women circles talking about education.

Students and teachers are invited to participate in every way and be part of or hold classes in the gallery and make collaborative projects.

How to get there

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Queens College MFA Show - Spring 2013

                                                                                                                                         Postcard design by: Qi Zhu

Shared Spaces

Queens College, CUNY

MFA Exhibition 2013

Curated by Liz Park

Opening Saturday March 23, 6–9pm

March 23 – April 2, 2013

ONE ART SPACE, TRIBECA

23 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007

646.559.0535

info@oneartspace.com

www.oneartspace.com

Complimentary catalogue available at the exhibition.

Artists:

  

Pablo Alvarez

Sol Aramendi

Seth Aylmer

Barrie Cline

A. Coffey

Chris Esposito

Christie Farriella

Kristie Hirten

Marthe Keller

Henry Kielmanowicz

Thea Lanzisero

Lauren Nickou

Liz Pasqualo

Jose Serrano-McClain

Amanda Shea

Kara Szemelynec

Asia Sztencel

In urban design, the term “shared space” refers to an area where demarcating features such as traffic signs, road markings and curbs are removed in order to heighten the awareness of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians of each other’s presence. By increasing the sense of uncertainty, those who enter a shared space tend to become more attentive to others. A shared space necessitates an ongoing negotiation.

The 2013 Queens College MFA exhibition takes its title from this idea that those who enter a shared space must acknowledge the presence of others with different practices, vehicles, speeds, and methods of working. This exhibition similarly recognizes and highlights the distinct bodies of work that each artist has developed over the course of their time at Queens College.

Working alongside one another, the artists have developed affinities and share mutual concerns. For instance, Sol Aramendi, Seth Aylmer, Barrie Cline, and Jose Serrano-McClain create a social space – a shared space of a different kind – through events, workshops, classes, and community outreach and organization.  Another group of artists, Chris Esposito, Kristie Hirten, Kara Szemelynec, and Asia Sztencel explore elements of their urban environ or man-made structures in juxtaposition with the natural environment. Pablo Alvarez, Henry Kielmanowicz, Thea Lanzisero, and Liz Pasqualo are interested in picking up the material detritus of their urban fabric in order to provide commentary on socio-economic conditions or on the ecology, or to reflect on their individual connections to these materials. Yet another group of artists, A. Coffey, Christie Farriella, Marthe Keller, Lauren Nickou, and Amanda Shea explore a more intimate subjective relationship with the materials and the media in which they each work.

Within a shared space of interactions, there is always the risk of collision and rift. The exhibition acknowledges the limitations of shared spaces. The artists create work that may not sit comfortably beside one another. Nonetheless, they share a site of learning. In so doing, they must necessarily look around in order to navigate their way through many such shared spaces.

Special thanks to the office of the President of Queens College for their generous support.

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Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/355200754588704/

Photos from CAA/Hilton Intervention

Take a look below at a few images from our intervention in a Hilton hotel room during CAA.   For a two-day, self-produced, flash-mob type of exhibition it was fairly successful.  The amount of visitors we received surprised everybody.  Seems the word got out among the conference-goers.  We guess there are only so many art panels you can participate in before you actually want to see some art! 
 Among the notable art world guests were Hans Haacke, Carol Becker, Antoni Muntadas, and Carin Kuoni.  In the middle of a conversation with Hans Haacke about art censorship, security paid us a visit and shut down us down for having too many people in the room.  Perfect!

 More photos here.

Hotel Practice: Intervention at the Hilton

Hotel Practice
Intervention at the Hilton

A hotel room group installation by Queens College MFA artists during the College Art Association conference.

Room #_____  (to be announced in the Hilton second floor promenade on the days of the exhibition February 14 and 15)

Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
6th Avenue at 54th Street
New York, NY 10010

Opening: Thursday, February 14, 5-10pm
Friday, February 15,  12-5pm
Closing: February 15,  Friday,  5-10pm


Entering a hotel room, you find yourself in a familiar arrangement: the bed, the television, the bathroom with travel-size toiletries. Its appearance is generic, but only because there is a systematized logic that determines what constitutes a neutral living space. At a hotel, you have no responsibility to the space; you are not expected to think about the labor and the mechanism behind the maintenance and the operations of the hotel. It is ideologically loaded in order to appear free of ideology.

For the MFA students at Queens College, Hotel Practice is an examination of the customary performance involved with inhabiting such a site of contradiction – a space for respite and escape, and potential depravity and unexpected convergences. Furthermore, organized in time for the CAA conference, where the field of art is actively charted through debates and discussions, the artists in Hotel Practice consider how to discursively situate their own work in relation to these continually constructed sites of art. Self-organized and -produced, Hotel Practice can be more accurately described as a demonstration of the artists’ practice, rather than as an exhibition. It invites you to a collective questioning of established methods of conducting oneself within a systematized field of social activities – whether that field be understood specifically as the hotel, or more broadly as the field of art.

To see more from these artists, please note their upcoming annual MFA show at One Art Space (23 Warren Street, NY, NY 10007).   Opening March 23, and on view from March 24 to April 3.

More info at: cunyqueenscollegemfa.blogspot.com

QCMFA Open Studios:Sunday, October 14, 2012

Sunday, October 14, 2012
11:00 AM -5:00 PM

The CUNY Queens College MFA Program will have Open Studios for Alumni Weekend. There will be a group show of the MFA students' work in the gallery on the fourth floor of Klapper Hall. MFA students will also have their studios open to the public on the 6th floor.

Directions to Queens College: 
Quickest: E/F to 71/Continental to Q64, towards Jewel Ave. Get off at Kissena. 
7 to Main St to Q25/Q34/Q17, towards Jamaica. Get off after LIE.
LIE: Exit 24 Kissena Blvd. Free Street Parking on Reeves Ave. behind the school.

Matthew F. Greco (QCMFA'11): Resident at the Museum of Arts & Design

Congratulations!

Matt Greco is one of the current resident artists at

The Museum of Arts & Design Open Studios 2012

 

http://madmuseum.org/programs/open-studios

Start your visit in the Open Studios to talk with artists about their processes, materials and concepts. The Open Studios is an educational space that fosters dialog between artists, designers, and the public. Every day, the Open Studios hosts artists and designers as the produce their work in a public environment. The Open Studios supports the development of original works through special projects and residencies.

Open Studio Hours

Tuesday - Sunday: 11:00 am – 1:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Thursday and Friday: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Matt's hours: Sundays 2:30-5:00pm 

August 8, 2012: One Night Only! Super Hot!!! Drawing Salon 2012

6:00-9:00pm
20 Jay Street, Suite M10
DUMBO Brooklyn, NY 11201

Including work by: 
Aaron Schraeter ('12)
Antonia Perez ('10)
Joyce Chan ('12)
Karen Cintron ('12)
Liz Pasqualo ('13) 
Glenn Goldberg

ONE NIGHT ONLY DRAWING SALON. A one night drawing Salon next 

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 from 6 - 9PM. 

Questions: aplupiani@gmail.com

Joyce Chan('12) in First Street Gallery 2012 Juried Exhibition, by Dore Ashton

Reception: Saturday, June 23, 3 - 5 PM 

First Street Gallery is pleased to present the 2012 National Juried Exhibition, juried by Dore Ashton, renowned art critic and author. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, mixed media and sculpture by 31 artists from all parts of the country, working in diverse styles. 


 The Artists: Deborah Adams (NY), Matt Ballou (MO), Kathleen Bennett Bastis (NY), Jamie Bowman (MA), Brandon Matthew Briggs (OH), Joyce S. Chan (NY), Christina Ciacci (CT), Linda Hess Conklin (PA), Isabelle Day (CT), Christopher Dolan (DC), Tom Driscoll (NH), Elana Hagler (CO), Ed Heins (NY), Kinuko Imai Hoffman (NY), Sassoon Kosian (NJ), Ryosuke Kumakura (NY), Bernard Mangiaracina (PA), Christina Massey (NY), Anthony Heinz May (OR), Claudine Metrick (MA), Armin Mühsam (MO), Frederick Ortner (LA), Shilo Ratner (CA), William G. Richardson (NC), Stacy Rosende (FL), Åsa Schick (NY), Ty Smith (AL), Gabriella Soraci (OR), Cliff Tisdell (NJ), Kimberly Trowbridge (WA) and Junko Yamada (NY).

Gallery hours: 11 am - 6 pm, Tuesday through Saturday

526 West 26th Street, Suite 209, New York, New York, 10001
646-336-8053 • 646-336-8054 fax

TrustArt (Jose Serrano-McClain & Seth Alymer) Geodome Trial-run, Klapper Hall

Kim Sheridan ('10) in "Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients Exhibition" June 7, 6-8pm

Exhibition of 2011 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Program Recipients Opens at CUE Art Foundation

June 7 - July 28, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, June 7th, 6pm - 8pm


CUE Art Foundation
511 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212 206 3583
www.cueartfoundation.org


Summer Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
Saturday, 11am - 5pm

The Joan Mitchell Foundation, in collaboration with CUE Art Foundation, is pleased to announce an exhibition of its 2011 MFA Grant Program Recipients.  From June 7 - July 28, the 15 recipients will be showing current artwork at CUE Art Foundation.

The annual MFA Grant Program was created in 1997 to assist painters and sculptors who are receiving their MFA degrees. With these grants the Foundation aims to further the recipients' artistic careers and to aid, upon graduation, in the transition from academic to professional studio work. A complimentary catalogue, available at CUE's gallery, has been published on the occasion of this exhibition. The catalogue features works and bios for each artist and essays on their work by three writers: Kareem Estefan, Megan Hoetger, and Wendy Vogel.

2011 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients and their MFA Programs:   

Sarah Awad, University of California, Los Angeles

Marissa Lee Benedict, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Jason E. Carter, Cranbrook Academy of Art

David Finegan, Hunter College, CUNY

Narangkar Glover, University of California, Berkeley

Jacqueline Gordon, Stanford University

Daniel Jackson, University of Delaware

Daniel Luchman, Carnegie Mellon University

Carmen Niichel, Indiana University

Aay Preston-Myint, University of Illinois at Chicago

Luis F. Ramírez Celis, Stony Brook University

Jerome Reyes, Stanford University

Jonathan Runcio, California College of the Arts

Kim Sheridan, Queens College, CUNY

Samantha Wall, Pacific Northwest College of Art

   

This year's MFA Grant Recipients Exhibition marks the tenth year of the Joan Mitchell Foundation's collaboration with CUE Art Foundation. CUE's generous contributions toward this partnership have enabled us to annually showcase the work of all MFA recipients.

The MFA Grant Program:
Each recipient received an MFA Grant in the amount of $15,000. To date the Joan Mitchell Foundation has awarded over 190 MFA Grants. These grants are given in recognition of artistic quality to artists chosen from a body of candidates put forth by nominators from the academic art community across the United States. In 2011, over 60 graduate programs were asked to nominate their top students. The nominated candidates' images were viewed for grant consideration through an anonymous process by a jury panel of artists and curators.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation:   

The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in April 1993 as a not-for-profit corporation following the death of Joan Mitchell in October 1992. The Foundation celebrates the legacy of Joan Mitchell and expands her vision to support the aspirations and development of diverse contemporary artists. We work to broaden the recognition of artists and their essential contributions to communities and society.

Additional programs undertaken by the Foundation include free art classes for New York City youth, an annual grant to painters & sculptors, and grants to artists and arts communities in need of emergency support after a disaster. The Foundation has established the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, which will be starting an artist in residence and currently offers programming that engages the local community.

For further information about the Foundation and the MFA Grant Program please visit www.joanmitchellfoundation.org

Contact: Allison Hawkins at 212.524.0100 or ahawkins@joanmitchellfoundation.org

BFA/BA Senior Group Show/ Ceramics Club Dumpling Party

Glenn's Shoes

Debra Priestly & Glenn Goldberg

N.E.W.

Matchy Matchy MFA's

Min Tian, 2012 Senior Award Recipient

Glenn Goldberg, 2012 BFA/BA Senior Advisor

Edith Jr.

Teaching Assistant Joyce

 

Sin-Ying Ho