2020 Southeast Queens Biennial – WRITING HOME:
Literacy. Identity.
Environment
Curators: Margaret Rose Vendryes & Molaundo Jones
Dates: February 14–April 17, 2020
Press Reception with
Curators: February 21, 2020, at
1PM starting at York College Fine Arts Gallery and at 2:30PM continuing to
the Miller Gallery at the Jamaica Arts Center
Programming: March 27—York College Fine Arts Gallery, 6–9PM
/ April 16—Miller Gallery, 6–9PM RSVP
Opening on Valentine’s
Day, the second Southeast Queens Biennial will be a nine-week
group exhibition at the York College Fine Arts Gallery and the Miller Gallery
at the Jamaica Arts Center. Molaundo Jones and Margaret Rose Vendryes, the
curators who are also visual artists have invited ten Queens-based artists to
address literacy, identity, and the environment with work that investigates how
their creative practice contributes to the life of the borough. Statistics
document the remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity of Queens, but relay
little about what is it like to live/work/play within culture-fluid communities
that are still becoming "home" for many of its residents. Through
painting, book arts, installation, photography, doll arts, performance, and
interactive constructions, the 2020 SEQ Biennial artists reveal what can be
“read,” in more ways than one, through the visual arts. Definitions of
literacy, identity, and environment remain open-ended as these Queens artists
compliment, and complicate, NYC life through visual narratives that are like
WRITING HOME.
For participating
artists, location details, and general RSVP visit: www.seqbiennial.com
For more information
contact: 2020seqbiennial@gmail.com
The SEQ Biennial is co-hosted by York College, City University of
New York and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
