Together, Ris Aguiló-Cuadra (fruit bat & the flesh), Eugenie Y.
Becoming Unbound is a celebration of the process of 14 MFA candidate artists coming into their own voices. It is often a balancing act between grasping at the deepest reaches of one’s ambition and allowing for inspiration to touch us.
The process of committing to making art is one that can feel like an unmooring. Queens College CUNY MFA Annual ExhibitionĮxhibition on view May 4-28 during gallery hours: Thursday & Friday, 5-9pm, and Saturday & Sunday, 2-9pm. One of those treasures is the piece titled Gravitas, which is part of the show. There was always something interesting to find, and usually it was quite rusty.” My wife (artist Diane Hendry) and I would find things and bring them home with the intention to one day do something interesting with them. “LIC was a wonderfully deserted place with trees, grass and wild dogs. The show also includes history from the pre-development of the LIC waterfront. He added that as far as anyone can remember, this is the largest ever neon show in NYC. When his brother Ronnie Rose contacted me to get advice about how to value his deceased brother’s equipment and art, I suggested auctioning his work to benefit Culture Lab, and being part of the exhibit,” Kenny said.
I had helped him set up a gallery show so I had taken photos of his art that is currently in our show. “Gerry and I began as neon artists at the same time and kept in touch throughout the years. To make neon, electricity is introduced into glass tubes filled with gasses such as helium or krypton that bang around and give off light in a sustainable process, Kenny explained.Īlso in the show, neon works by the late Gerry Rose - a former Sunnyside resident and the last neon tube bender for Artkraft Strauss - will be auctioned to benefit Culture Lab. “Owning a piece of neon art is like owning lightning captured in glass,” as Tess described the process of creating neon. The show was curated by Tess Howsam, Artistic Director, and Kenny Greenberg, the owner of Krypton Neon and a long-time LIC resident. But fortunately Culture Lab LIC specializes in the unusual, and through May 21 you can see over 70 neon works from 30 artists presented in Luminous: The Art of Neon. Neon signs can be overwhelming walking down the street in Times Square, so they aren’t the first thing you’d expect to see in an art gallery.
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