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2009-2010
The Poetics of Transculture
September 9 - October 30, 2009
The Poetics of Transculture is two site-specific installations:Universal Language: Installation by Franca Marini
A site-specific installation, Universal Language is inspired by the shape of the Queens College Art Center gallery, the importance of written language for human knowledge, and the metaphor of space in libraries. Franca Marini, from Siena, Italy, is a multimedia artist whose work plays with the dimensions of urban lines, landscapes, and transculture. Marini has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally, and her work is in many collections around the world.
ASTORIA in Poetry and Images: Exile/People/Places: Installation by Nicos Alexiou
Since the 1960s Astoria, Queens, has been home to the largest Greek community outside of Greece. Alexiou’s work speaks to the poetics of Astoria and its influences on Greek American identity. Photographer Sophia Vourdoukis and other Greek American artists parallel Alexiou’s poetry through their own personal documentation of Astoria’s people and places. Nicos Alexiou teaches in the Department of Sociology and The Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College. This exhibition is cosponsored by The Center for Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies.
2008-2009
The Fairfield Porter Reading Room
May 5 - 22, 2009
The Fairfield Porter Reading Room, an installation by Tara Mathison based on American painter Fairfield Porter's syllabus when he taught at Queens College. The Reading Room is open to the public from 12 pm - 5 pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from May 5 through 22, 2009. Reference and online services will be available.
Jonas Angelet and Drew Malcolm: Strange Games: RJA vs. ALM 2
April 2 - May 2, 2009
Features new paintings and prints from Jonas Angelet and Drew Malcolm, two artists interested in different, but similar threads of social issues and contemporary technology culture. Opening with reception and artist talks on April 2, 2009, 5 – 8 PM.
In House: Brouhaha Ritualsy Business
February 19 - March 30, 2009
An Installation by the LLC. The LLC. is collabortively composed of Kassie Asmann-Teng, Erin Jones, Tara Mathison, Jessica Wilson. Other members include Jenny San Martin.
Re:Rebus (Non Verbis Sed Rebus!): Selections from Queens College Art Library Special Collections
March 9 to April 7, 2009
Rebuses received notoriety from the puzzles composed by French clerks at carnivals for satirical current event commentary. Voltaire was said to have exchanged rebuses with Frederick the Great. In approaching rebuses as a means of communicating with other visually-curious people "Re:Rebus" is curator Tara Mathison's response to Muniz's MoMA Rebus, using the permanent special collection of the Queens College Art Library.2007-2008
Anna Matoušková: Places: Abstract Paintings, Drawings and Glass Sculpture - Homage to Leo Kraft
Wednesday, April 9 – Thursday, July 10, 2008
In Places, the Czech artist Anna Matoušková uses painting, drawing and sculpture to give an objective form to her inner reflections on music by the American composer Leo Kraft. The project began to take shape five years ago, after Matoušková, a Czech artist, and Kraft, an American composer, musical theorist, author and educator, a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, met in Prague. The two spent hours talking about art and music. Through a continuing dialogue, they discovered that while their media and backgrounds differ, their artistic concerns and creative processes are aligned. In discussing and sharing their work, Kraft and Matoušková developed an artistic friendship that bridges age, gender, nationality and artistic discipline. Their mutual appreciation has enriched and inspired each of them.
White Landscape : Drawings by Jin Lee
Thursday February 7- Friday March 28, 2008
In White Landscape, Jin Lee plays with the idea that life forms develop in unexpected ways. Her intricate, semi-abstract paintings and drawings—often composed from thousands of tiny, dot-like marks—appear to be growing and changing as one observes them. Simultaneously microscopic and cosmically huge, these imaginary biomorphic structures suggest undiscovered plants and animals.
Brush with Nature: Installation Art by Barbara Roux
Monday November 5 – Friday December 21, 2007
Barbara Roux is an ecology-based artist and conservationist whose work is influenced by her efforts to protect habitats and record incidents in natural history. She is inspired by her father (a pharmacologist who did research in the Amazon), her own stays in wilderness areas around the world, and her interactions with scientists on plant-related research, natural history and contemporary art . Her installations/pieces employ symbolism and anthropomorphism to evoke a sense of mystery, freshness and recognition, drawing the viewer in by metaphor.
