Exhibition Details
Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido, chronicles the artist’s years-long engagement with people at the Queens Museum and its neighborhood, Corona. Adapted from the popular Vincente Fernández song “Mexico, Lindo y Querido”—translated in English to “Mexico, Beautiful and Beloved”—the exhibition title highlights Nisenbaum’s personal and artistic relationships to the sitters and their environments, with careful attention paid to expressions of what people value, as expressed through material culture.
Artist Details
Aliza Nisenbaum portrays human stories. With her magically exuberant color palette, she paints people, individually or in groups, with their countenance, posture, and immediate surroundings organically composed to depict their humanity.
The artist’s involvement with Corona, Queens residents started in 2012 when she volunteered for Immigrant Movement International. Led by artist Tania Bruguera, this hyper-local, multi-year project was created in collaboration with the Museum and Creative Time to engage the neighborhood’s largely Spanish speaking community members. Mexican-born and New York-based, Nisenbaum taught a feminist art history class there as a way of teaching English to students, and that experience led to a series of portraits of the students and their families.
The artist’s involvement with Corona, Queens residents started in 2012 when she volunteered for Immigrant Movement International. Led by artist Tania Bruguera, this hyper-local, multi-year project was created in collaboration with the Museum and Creative Time to engage the neighborhood’s largely Spanish speaking community members. Mexican-born and New York-based, Nisenbaum taught a feminist art history class there as a way of teaching English to students, and that experience led to a series of portraits of the students and their families.
Location
Queens Museum
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Long Island City, NY 11368
Image: Detail from Aliza Nisenbaum, “Pedacito de Sol (Vero y Marissa)”, 2022 / photo by Thomas Barratt