Thursday, February 13, 2020

2020 Southeast Queens Biennial: February 14–April 17, 2020



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 contact2020seqbiennial@gmail.com

The SEQ Biennial is co-hosted by York College, City University of New York and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.

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