A wide shot of artist Pauline Shaw leaning on the second floor balcony at Queens Center Mall, overlooking the Center Court. Under the balcony is her commissioned mural. The colorful installation features blue, purple, pink, and pink hues, combining extracted landscapes of birds and flowers with abstracted images of cells and tissues found in the human body.

Image: Pauline Shaw at Queens Center. Photo by Michael Violago, courtesy Queens Center.

Black text on beige background that reads News, Queens Museum x Queens Center Mall, Pauline Shaw at Queens Center, Jan 21 2023 and ongoing

Artist Pauline Shaw is standing in Queens Center Mall with her commissioned mural visible in the background. She has long black hair and is wearing a white turtleneck. Her colorful mural features blue, purple, pink, and pink hues, combining extracted landscapes of birds and flowers with abstracted images of cells and tissues found in the human body.

Visit Queens Center to discover Pauline Shaw’s newly commissioned vinyl artwork in the mall’s Center Court.  Shaw employs a variety of craft-based techniques, such as weaving and felting, to create sculptures, textiles, and installations, that examine her own personal history against the backdrop of centuries-old artistic traditions passed down through generations. For her Queens Center commission, she pulled imagery from paper cutouts found in Chinese folk art as well as ancient Chinese wall tapestries currently in museum collections across the United States.

Visite Queens Center y descubra la nueva obra en vinilo de Pauline Shaw en el patio central.  Shaw utiliza diversas técnicas artesanales, como el tejido y el fieltro, para crear esculturas, telas e instalaciones que analizan su propia historia personal con el telón de fondo de las tradiciones artísticas heredadas de generación en generación durante siglos. El imaginario de este encargo del Queens Center procede de recortes de papel procedentes del arte popular chino, así como de tapices chinos antiguos que se encuentran en colecciones de museos de todo Estados Unidos.

Discover / Descubrir

Join us for Lunar New Year 2023 as the New York Chinese Cultural Center (NYCCC) returns to Queens Museum with its signature program. Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with folk dances, Lion Dance, Kung fu demonstrations, and traditional arts and crafts. The event will feature a 45-minute performance program, a hands-on Chinese calligraphy and ink brush painting workshop for kids and adults, and all-ages art-making workshops in English, Spanish, and Mandarin.

¡Venga a celebrar con nosotros el Año Nuevo lunar de 2023! El Centro Cultural Chino de Nueva York (NYCCC, por sus siglas en inglés) regresa al Queens Museum con su característico programa. Celebraremos todxs juntxs el Año del Conejo con danzas tradicionales, la Danza del León, muestras de Kung fu y manualidades típicas. El evento incluirá un programa de actuaciones de 45 minutos, prácticas de caligrafía china y un taller de pintura en tinta con pincel para niños y adultos, y talleres de manualidades para todas las edades en inglés, español y mandarín.

Celebrate / Celebrar

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Black text on yellow background that reads feb 22 to 24 2022, 12 to 3pm, Winter Break Workshop, Adventures in Sculpture, On site

A group of children are standing in front of a black in white mural at the queens museum that features bouncing cartoon-like illustrations and the word Me. The children are holding up artwork they created at the Museum.

How can non-traditional materials become art? What would happen if you sculpted with something other than clay? Join us for a three-day art-making workshop for children ages 7-11 celebrating the artistic approaches of Charisse Pearlina Weston and Xaviera Simmons. Aligned with Black History Month, we will explore the galleries to learn about ways that artwork can be restructured, and create exciting works using a variety of materials in new and different ways.

¿Cómo se pueden convertir en arte los materiales no tradicionales? ¿Qué pasaría si realizamos esculturas con algo que no sea arcilla? Venga a nuestro taller artístico de tres días para niñxs de entre 7 y 11 años para celebrar los enfoques artísticos de Charisse Pearlina Weston y Xaviera Simmons. En línea con el Mes de la Historia Negra, exploraremos las galerías para aprender cómo se puede reestructurar el arte y crear obras emocionantes con diversos materiales de formas nuevas y diferentes.

Register / Registrarse

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The Queens Museum is housed in the New York City Building, which is owned by the City of New York.

The Museum is supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Mayor Eric Adams, the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, and the New York City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne E. Adams.

Major funding is generously provided by the Booth Ferris Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Jerome Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Lambent Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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