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NEW SHOW
The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens
Museum of Art
Featuring Tamar Hirschl Paintings |
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Show runs from November 20,
2005 through February 26, 2006 |
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Tamar Hirschl will have several of her works
featured in a new exhibition opening November 20 at the Queens Museum of
Art (QMA) in Flushing Meadows, NY. Called “The Gift: Building a
Collection for the Queens Museum of Art,” the show highlights recent gifts and acquisitions for the museum’s
permanent collection.
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 Valerie
Smith, the QMA’s Director of Exhibitions, explained that she paired the
work of Ms. Hirschl in this show with that of William Sharp, whose
political drawings captured the rise of the Nazi regime, Cold War
tensions and the drama of major trials including those of Alger Hiss and
Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann. “The work of the two artists, while
vastly different in style and separated by some 60 years of history,
flow together naturally since both use visual images to express views on
world politics, current events and social issues,” she said.
 Tamar explores the fractured nature of world events and social issues
through her large scale, mixed media works, which address the state of
conflict using a pastiche of abstract expressionism and mass media
images. Her mixed media piece
Fall (2003) expresses shock
at the Columbia space shuttle disaster and her vision of an afterlife
for the astronauts. Another
Cultural Alarms (2005) reflects the fragility of
the global environment in the race to keep pace with population
expansion and world hunger.
“The Gift” also features 16 of Tamar’s
small
drawings and a painting
Storm I (1998) from the Museum’s permanent
collection.
The Queens Museum of Art is located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park,
adjacent to the Unisphere. The museum is open Wednesday through Friday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and weekends from noon to 5 p.m. Suggested
admission is $5 for adults and $2.50 for seniors and children.
Information is at 718-592-9700 or
www.queensmuseum.org |
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 Alongside
Tamar’s large mural, “Cultural
Alarms”
(2005) |
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 Some
participating artists in “The Gift”,
including Richard Avedon and Jenny
Holzer |
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