Exhibitions

Curator Cheryl McGinnis worked with artists to create a unique exhibition that draws on the instincts and curiosities of children-how they are naturally fascinated with different kinds of media, textures, colors and compositions of contemporary art and curious about the processes by which they are created.

This exhibition explored the emerging styles, significant themes, and latest trends of contemporary Chinese painting, sculpture, and installation art.

Presented in association with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Behring Center collections, and private collectors. "With or Without Strings" celebrates the art of puppetry. This rare showing encompasses marionettes, bunraku, shadow, rod, and hand puppets of all descriptions from Sesame Street's one-and-only Oscar the Grouch to Jerry Mahoney, Rose the Dog, Petrushka and the work of New York's leading contemporary puppet artists.

Daily: 12 noon - 5pm An exhibition of the work of selected visual artist members of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts. $5/FCCA members free

An exhibition of contemporary art and traditional folklore celebrating the Mexican Festival of Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead.

A radiant celebration of warmth, light and beauty in contemporary art is the theme of this special exhibition. Daily 12 noon - 5pm

A new generation of Queens artists takes charge in a youthful coup d'etat of digital, performance, and installation art. Curated by William Corwin. Gallery is open daily 12pm - 5pm.

Artists and architects look into the future! What will Flushing look like in 100 years? Who will live here? What language(s) will they speak? How will people get to work? What will they do for fun? What about global warming? Also features "Visions of the Future" - new art created by special guest artists from Taiwan.

FAVORITE IMAGES: The Work of Photographer Richard Schwarzchild, taking place in the Main Gallery of Flushing Town Hall from August 10-September 2, 2007, is an exhibition of 29 of the photographer’s favorite color photographs, selected from his vast collection. The show spans almost thirty years of work, much of which was taken abroad. But, whether the photographs are from Thailand, Namibia, Italy or Jones Beach, they display a sense of peace and order, informed by an eye for detail and punctuated by an ironic wit.

An oasis is an isolated area of vegetation, a small bit of relief, a green area in an otherwise barren landscape. As our lives become more and more scheduled, busy, and fragmented, artists are responding by looking to nature. Tuesdays through Sunday, Noon to 5PM

Contemporary Chinese art has become hot in the global art market. However, most Chinese artists are men with teams of assistants working for them. While technology plays an important part in the trendy art scene, there is a small but strong group of Chinese women artists in New York who create their art differently ?with their own hands. They use age-old methods, traditional materials and objects found in nature to give substance to their dreams and imaginings, making a connection with the natural world. The rules they find embedded in nature reappear in their artwork in a multitude of ways, speaking passionately with visual impact but with a contemporary touch that is both subtle and natural.

Delicate and detailed hand-carved wood frames and latticework transformed ordinary windows and doors into works of art, which added beauty and pleasure as well as function to the historic Chinese home. This exhibit, on loan from the private collection of Thomas Chen, president of Crystal Window & Door Systems, brings to life the development of Chinese windows and doors as architectural elements, infused with ancient culture, philosophy and symbolism.

Seven artists from Latin America and New York spend two weeks in Flushing to take the multi-cultural temperature of the community and create new works of contemporary art in response to their experiences here. Art making will take place in the Main Gallery, affording us the opportunity to explore the process from conceptualization to realization with them.

The exhibition gains in significance when one considers that women street painters have had a difficult time being accepted into the world's notion of who should paint the urban environment. Five women bravely take to the street to formulate their own unique visions of the metropolis.

Artists are invited to bring in an original work of art to show and discuss. Each artist is given 5 minutes to speak, followed by questions and answers.

By bus and/or subway, we visit the studios of artists whose work is in "The Aesthetics of Diversity." Meet at Flushing Town Hall.