Teacher Pursuits // Exploring Queens Through Design

CROSSCURRENTS: Queens College CUNY MFA Group Exhibition

NY Studio Gallery, 154 Stanton Street

March 23, 2011 through April 2, 2011

Reception: Friday March 25 7-9pm

Curated by Omar Lopez- Chahoud

Patty Harris, our InDesign Instructor, will be showing her work in a group show at the NY Studio Gallery.

A “crosscurrent” is defined as a current flowing into or across another current. The works in this show represent Queens' cultural and ethnic diversity through creative processes.

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.

Learn from Patty in her InDesign class here and learn more about CROSSCURRENTS here.