NYAB Event - "CROSSCURRENTS: Queens College CUNY MFA" Exhibition

"CROSSCURRENTS: Queens College CUNY MFA" Exhibition

NY Studio Gallery

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The Queens College CUNY MFA Program presents “Crosscurrents,” an exhibition of nineteen Master of Fine Arts degree candidates. 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.

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 Cintron 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.

Curated by Omar Lopez- Chahoud

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Photography
• Sculpture

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