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I will be participating in this group show at Flushing Town Hall with a piece from my Griffins’ Tales: Stories from Jackson Heights series, featuring an oral history excerpt from my former city councilman Danny Dromm about the first pride parade in JH. See above image.
Opening Reception: November 7, 2024
Exhibition: November 7 – 25, 2024
Gallery is open 7 days a week from 12:00pm – 5:00pm
The World’s Borough Exhibition showcases a diverse collection of artwork that captures the multicultural spirit and rich history of Queens, a borough celebrated for its distinctive neighborhoods and global influence.
I will be showing two recent collages in this Art in Fall benefit for the Hovnanian School in NJ, taking place on November 16 and 17.
Here’s a link to the press release.
This is a proposal I developed for the Museum Parc Newark project through the Newark Museum of Art in early 2024. Though I did not win the commission, I enjoyed developing this proposal. The black silhouetted forms are based on vessels from the Museum’s collections, in particular the Steuben Glass collection. The color palette, including the use of some iridescent colors, was also inspired by this collection. I created totem-like arrangements on the right wall, while using the windows as shelves on the left wall.
I was honored to be one of the 26 artists who participated in the Paseo Park mural project in Jackson Heights, Queens, this spring 2024. I painted this granite cube with a futuristic design inspired by totems, altars, and street signage and architecture. It is located on the 34th Ave open street and 82nd street.
I was delighted to meet the multi-disciplinary artist Marie-Christine Katz recently, who after seeing my work, asked me to participate in an ongoing blog she maintains called “My Favorite Grandmother.” I contributed some text and images, see here.
Happy to be included in Vellum Art Zine’s Issue #28 Winter 2023.
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Available digitally or printed via magcloud or at art fairs.
I’ll have a few of my Extinct Alphabet towers on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island this fall. Opening on October 7.
I participated in What Now? Six Women Answer, a public art project organized by artist Carla Lobmier, involving sandwich boards positioned in front of local businesses in Jackson Heights, Queens. My art work, titled When One Door Closes, Another One Opens is a mix of local architecture punctured by bits of sky, suggesting the possibilities that life presents to the waves of immigrants who have passed through the neighborhood. Media is ink and watercolor.
I showed one of my recent collages in the Queens Rising show at Culture Lab in LIC this summer. More info here.
I’m honored to be named a finalist for the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant. When my son was born, 15 years ago, there were barely any supports for parent-artists. Now, largely because of this foundation, the landscape is improving. More details here.
I showed a new iteration of Uncontained Consumption upstate, with floor and wall elements.
Mother-In-Law’s Presents:
UNCONTAINED CONSUMPTION
by Linda Ganjian
with: Joanne Ungar, Marianna Peragallo
Reception Sat, May 27th, 5-7pm (I’ll be there!)
May 20th-July 16th, 2023
Saturdays, 12-5, and by appointment
140 Church Avenue, Germantown, NY
Mother-in-Law’s is proud to present, “Uncontained Consumption,” by Linda Ganjian, with Joanne Ungar, and Marianna Peragallo. The artists in “Uncontained Consumption” work with materials used in packaging, shipping and used ubiquitously throughout the world nowadays.
Linda Ganjian’s tabletop sculptures composed of hundreds of individual elements evoke Middle Eastern and American Craft traditions. The sculptures Uncontained Consumption, and Consumerist Mandalas were inspired by the infrastructure surrounding the massive container ships that supply us with cheaply manufactured products.
Ganjian became aware of accidents, in which piles of containers fell into the sea, and she imagioned these manufactured products forming beautiful but horrific landscapes, adding to the pollution that is already accumulating. Ganjian collects throwaway plastic packaging from consumer goods and uses it as molds to cast plaster forms. These miniature forms which are arranged into a landscape, surrounded by models of sinking container ships and computer networks. Some of the plaster objects retain traces of the items that they had acted as packaging for, while others are thoroughly unrecognizable.
More details here.
I participated in LIC Open Studios on May 20-21 (for the first time!), along with my five talented studio mates, including instrument maker Bill Hampton.
This event is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.
I had a mixed media collage in the Off-Brand show which opened on December 10, 2022 at Art Retail Therapy (A.R.T.) in Jackson Heights, Queens. The show ran till January 28, 2023. This exhibit, which I organized with the JH Art Talks team in collaboration with A.R.T., features 27 site-specific artworks integrated into the retail environment.
My piece Totem riffs off of my Future Monastery series of drawings. Materials are watercolor, acrylic, metallic paper, ink, dressmaking patterns on museum board.
These two reliefs were included in Invisible Attraction at the Undercroft Gallery at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in NYC in Sept.-Oct. 2022. Curated by Mike A. Lee of the Artist Lecture Series.
