April 9th Sunday at 3 PM – 6 PM
Queens Museum
Queens Museum New York City Building Flushing Meadows

Everyone is invited to gather at the Queens Museum to celebrate the opening of an exciting slate of spring exhibitions:

• Marinella Senatore: La Piazza Universale/Social Stages

With a practice that includes video, installation, performance, photography, and drawing, Marinella Senatore fosters the creative power of crowds to produce works that initiate a dialogue between history, culture, and social structures. Curated by Matteo Lucchetti, this exhibition introduces the multifaceted practice of Senatore by looking at a range of important recent projects created in Spain, France, Italy and the US between 2009 and today.

The public performance “Protest Forms: Memory and Celebration: Part II”, kicks off at 4pm inside the Museum and flows outside in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. This performance, which includes the participation of a range of creative figures from spoken word artists, to a Caribbean band, to a LGBTQ symphony orchestra, to a chorus made up of union members–and many other groups–is dedicated to the past and present civic struggles of New York City communities. “Queens Anthem”, an original music score composed by Emiliano Branda, is based on an open call to Queens residents to submit sonic memories of their borough and the protest songs related to their communities. It will premiere as part of the larger performance.

This exhibition is made possible by Annette Blum, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.

• Nine: 2017 Studio Program Exhibition

Marking the fourth year of its Studio Program, the Queens Museum presents an exhibition featuring the works of nine artists who have occupied studios at the Queens Museum from 2015 to 2017. Participating artists include ruby onyinyechi amanze, Andrew Beccone, Chris Bogia, Gloria Maximo, Ander Mikalson, Karolina Sobecka, Alina Tenser, Tuo Wang, and Bryan Zanisnik.

This exhibition is made possible by The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Social Practice Queens programming is supported by Surdna Foundation and The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Special thanks to our collaborators at Queens College.

• Anna K.E.: Profound Approach and Easy Outcome

The third iteration in a series of site-specific commissions by women artists on the Queens Museum’s Large Wall, K.E.’s Profound Approach and Easy Outcome playfully renders a complex reflection on artistic production, feminism, power, and the role of institutions.

Commissions for the Large Wall Series at the Queens Museum are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ferriday Fund Charitable Trust, and The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Support for Profound Approach and Easy Outcome is provided by Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis, Jennifer Vorbach, and Simone Subal Gallery.

• Ronny Quevedo: no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime

Featuring large-scale and cross-disciplinary works that incorporate wide-ranging graphic references from sports field diagrams to Andean heraldic codes, Ronny Quevedo’s site-specific project visualize the ethos of global migration and displacement of peoples and cultures.

This exhibition is made possible by the Jerome Foundation, celebrating its 50th anniversary.

• Commonwealth: Water For All

Two recently acquired portfolios of prints developed by the justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, “We Are the Storm” (2015) and “Wellspring” (2016), are presented with a selection of materials developed for the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota on loan from Interference Archive. “Commonwealth: Water For All” is the third in a series of exhibitions that features contemporary expressions about water, its utility, and its preservation and consumption in dialogue with the Museum’s long-term display of the Relief Map of New York City’s Water System, a sprawling WPA project commissioned for the 1939-40 World’s Fair.

There will be a shuttle from the Mets-Willetts Point station on the 7-train from 2:30-6:30pm.

Exhibitions at the Queens Museum receive significant support from Ford Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, and The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Major funding for the Queens Museum is generously provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Lambent Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, The Kupferberg Foundation, and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.