NYAB Event - "Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle" Exhibition

"Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle" Exhibition

Queens Museum of Art

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Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle is the fifth edition of the Queens Museum of Art’s biannual survey of artists living and working in the borough. The 31 artists featured this year are based in Astoria, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Long Island City, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and Ridgewood, and comprise a multi-national and cross-generational group.

We found many artists working in forms of abstraction and collage, while many others were telling fantastical stories that layer the here and now with other spaces and times. Together, they seemed to be combining the rational and the emotional, searching for worlds beyond our own, from the midst of a daily life permeated by information technology.

These ideas are woven throughout the museum’s first-floor galleries. One gallery focuses on humble materials, basic forms and energies, and their discovery in everyday life. Another suggests possible journeys into the future and past, deploying symbols from traditional cultures, science, and mathematics. A third contains artworks that turn inward towards home and the spiritual. In addition to the works on view, three artists’ workshops are scheduled to explore these ideas in real time.

The exhibition subtitle originates with French Surrealist René Daumal’s unfinished novel Mount Analogue (1944), in which eight explorers use scientific knowledge and metaphysical powers to search for a magical mountain invisible to the human eye. In this spirit, embark on your journey through the exhibition.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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