6 @ 30

March 9th - April 22, 2007
Gallery open daily from 12pm - 5pm

6 @ 30: Right Here, Right Now

6 @ 30 is a mini-cosmology of what is happening right here – in Queens, right now – in the lives of six young artists. There is a past: a body of work, stylistic traits and media choices. The future is discernable but not yet predictable.

Queens has long held place in New York City as a locus of freedom and creativity. In 1971, Alanna Heiss founded P.S. 1, an outpost of edgy contemporary art in Long Island City, introducing Queens’ potential as a hotbed of new artistic ideas. MoMA’s all-too-brief sojurn here focused attention on that potential. Recent exhibitions, Greater New York at P.S. 1 and The Queens International at the Queens Museum of Art, brought this potential to fruition.

While 6 @ 30 charts the development of six artists, it does not limit them to a single style or genre. While neither academic nor historical, we do see the artists exploring traditional issues of composition, color and subject matter alongside an investigation of the paradoxical philosophies of random accidents, self-propagating art and works that actually respond to the presence of the viewer. Although the work is slippery and in transition, it is emblematic of the paths these young artists are following.

William Corwin
Guest Curator

Artists featured in this exhibition are William Corwin, Elise Co, Clara Fialho, Tommy Mintz, Shervone Neckles, and Nik Pashenkov.

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