Visual Arts
Exhibition & Event Schedule
Priscila De Carvalho, (IN)VISIBLE CITIES
Exhibiton Dates: June 24 - August 21, 2010
Opening Reception - Thursday, June 24; 6-8pm
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Press Release
"From one angle to another, the invisibility of these cities seems to continue, in lights, ‘in perspective, multiplying its repertory of images: but instead it has no thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side, which can neither be separated nor look at each other.’ "
- Priscilia De Carvalho, excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
(In)visible Cities is a site-specific installation for the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning gallery. In our era of globalization and technical advancement, the stratification between the rich and the poor is ever increasing and global poverty is often hidden by the glorious spectacles and futuristic prospects of media. De Carvalho’s project points out the ever growing poverty on the global level and raises the question of what to do. The installation consists of a few large-scale paintings of mixed media and an installation of bridge structures that connects the paintings together. The bridge structures, built from wood, depict winding, irregular paths and stairways, referencing the ever-present stairways in the slums of Brazil. The mixed-media paintings are made of recycled materials, wood, house paint, and collaged photographs taken in Queens. Upon entering the gallery, visitors are confronted by a chaotic, complex and paradoxical world where finding your way can be simultaneously treacherous and stimulating.
This exhibition is made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.
JCAL's Workspace Program is supported with public funds provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and the Puffin Foundation.
Jamaica Flux'10: Workspaces & Windows
April 10 - June 12
Heng-Gil Han, Project Director/Curator
Events and Public Programs : Selected Artists : Press Release : Site Map
Events and Public Programs
Exhibition
April 10 – June 12, 2010:
Site-Specific Exhibition
Location: Various indoor/outdoor sites along and off Jamaica Avenue
Gallery Exhibition
Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Gallery
161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
Video Slam
Location: Jamaica Performing Arts Center
153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
Events and Public Programs
April 10, 2010:
Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
10:00 am –11:00 am: Opening Remarks
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Theatre
11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Guided exhibition tour reviewing all site-specific art
works on Jamaica Avenue.
11:30 am – 9:00 pm: Video Slam
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Artist Talks
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
11:30 am – 6:00 pm: Performance Art – various times through out the day
on Jamaica Avenue.
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Opening Reception
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
Selected Artists
Site Specific Installation & Performance Art
Hyong Nam Ahn
Jennifer Andrews
Bandwagon
Jesse Bercowetz
Elaine Gan
Ilona Granet
Alicia Grullon
Jayson Keeling
Lily & Honglei
Jongil Ma
Robert Morris
Lia Perjovschi
Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone
Damon Rich
Ryan Roa
Freddy Rodríguez
José Ruiz
Shane Aslan Selzer
Hyungsub Shin
Chad Stayrook
Kyoeng Sub Yue
Video Slam
damali abrams
Nobutaka Aozaki
Chris Bors
Tsz Man Chan
Jay Critchley
Robert Ladislas Derr
Murray Dwertman
Willum Geerts,
Kanene Holder
Andrea Juan
Dana Kash
Jae Kyung Kim
Mayami Komuro
Ellen Lake
Sujin Lee
Jeannette Louie
Mayumi Nakazaki
Shani Peters
Elizabeth Riley
Linda Stein
Bradly Dever Treadaway
Christopher Udemezue
Anthony Cannon Walker
Veronica Winters
Ina Wudtke
 Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Council Korea, and Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.
  
JCAL's Curator is participating in NYC State of the Art Conference
On March 6th, Heng-Gil Han, curator for Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning will be a panelist at the NYC State of the Art conference.
"NYC: State Of The Art" is the first-ever art industry conference focused on New York City's emerging artists. NYC:SOTA 2010 will feature a full day of investigation and solutions from stakeholders: artists, non-profit galleries, charitable foundations, art collectors, developers, auction houses, galleries, museums, and government officials.
For more information and to register visit NYC State of the Art's website.
CONUNDRUM EXPRESS
Exhibiton Dates: February 3 - March 20, 2010
Opening Reception - Wednesday, February 3; 6-9pm
AHL Foundation present CONUNDRUM EXPRESS at JCAL, as a part of their annual exhibition program.
Curated by Shinnie Kim, CONUNDRUM EXPRESS challenges viewers to expand their frame of reference and look beyond the initial visual appearance of an art piece. Instead of indulging in the breakdown of the visual, the work itself becomes the reflective maze wherein the answer resides. Drawn in, the viewer becomes actively involved in deciphering complex composition and diverse perspectives.
Acknowledging the multiplicity of cognitive modes of connecting ideas, the exhibition deliberately avoids didactically presenting a singular discourse of master narrative.
The exhibition works as a medium of engagement that invites viewers to explore a range of enigmatic and intricate reasoning models as if it were a brainteaser game.
Conundrum Express will feature the art work of Humberto Duque, Eun Hyung Kim, Zaun Lee, Jaye Moon, and Dario Solman.
Artists’ Bios:
Humberto Duque has studied Graphic Design and Visual Arts in Mexico and Germany. His works were shown at such venues as MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico and Ramis Barquet, New York. He has been in numerous visual arts residency programs, including International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York; Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Norway; and IASK Changdong National Art Studio, South Korea.
Eun Hyung Kim, a recipient of an AHL Foundation Visual Arts Award, is based in New York, Chicago, and his hometown Seoul, South Korea. He holds an MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Seoul National University, South Korea. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in France, Finland, Germany, USA, Japan, and South Korea. An upcoming solo show will be organized by Gallery 400 in Chicago in April 2010.
Zaun Lee received BA in Philosophy from Alfred University and BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. Lee was a recipient of AHL Foundation Visual Arts Award and Han Yang Cultural Foundation Fellowship. Her group exhibition venues include Gallery Satori, Gana Art Gallery, Chashama Gallery, New York; KORUS house, Washington DC; SQFT Gallery, Nashville; and Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea.
Jaye Moon holds a MFA degree from Pratt Institute. She has previously exhibited at Newman Popiashvili Gallery, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, Dumbo Arts Center, White Columns, Artists Space, New York; Daegu Art Center, Daegu, South Korea; and Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain. Gallery, Spain. She was awarded grants from Pollock-Krasner Foundation, AHL Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts.
Dario Solman’s work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia; Gallery MC/The Doors Art Foundation, New York; Liquidacion Total, Madrid, Spain; Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Centre Place, Melbourne, Australia; Space Lab, Cleveland; and Alexandria Biennale, Alexandria, Egypt. He has also participated in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency, New York; the P.S.1 Studio Program, New York; and the residency at the Cimelice Castle, Czech Republic.
This project is presented in collaboration with the  .
John L. Moore, Paintings and Drawings
Exhibiton Dates: September 16, 2009 - January 16, 2010
Artist Talk & Opening Reception - Wednesday, September 16; 6-9pm
Artist bio
Press Release
Abstractionist, John L. Moore will exhibit select pieces from his body of work at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Moore works with a deliberately limited palette of colors and simple shapes. His art is a very personal way of interpreting a variety of events and can convey a wide range of emotions. They are beautiful and compelling and yet he has said ‘one can read them any way one wants.’ The exhibit will explore recurring ideas, shapes and themes in his body of work. |
