Art Calendar January NOGUCHI MUSEUM 9-01 33rd Road 718-204-7088 “Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center” On view through Jan. 7, 2018 February 19, 2017, marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the notorious wartime directive that authorized the internment of Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese heritage living in the Western United States. This exhibition explores Noguchi’s extraordinary decision— despite being exempt from internment as a resident of New York—to enter the Poston War Relocation Center, in the Arizona desert, hoping to contribute something positive to this forcibly displaced community, to which he had never felt more connected. In Noguchi’s words, “Thus I willfully became part of humanity uprooted.” 52 January 2017 i LIC COURIER i www.qns.com SculptureCenter 44-19 Purves Street 718-361-1750 “Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Congolese Plantation Workers Art League)” On view through March 27 Creating sculptures with cacao as a primary material, the artists that comprise the CATPC are plantation workers who harvest primary material for international companies. In the Congo, as elsewhere, plantation workers are grossly underpaid for their contribution to global industry, whether to the $100 billion chocolate industry or to the production of palm oil, broadly used in common household products. The Congolese plantation laborers cannot actually afford to live off of the wages they receive for their work and survive without basic amenities such as clean water and electricity. By using material sourced from cacao plantations worldwide instead to make artworks, the members of CATPC can occupy another place in the global value chain, one normally reserved for middle class artists. Dorsky Gallery 11-03 45th Avenue 718-937-6317 “Disarming Geometries” On view through March 26 Artists have used geometric abstraction since ancient times to make sense of the world around them and record their stories. Artists are also employing geometry, without representational imagery, to allude to spiritual concepts in an effort to understand our existence. Others are attempting to forge connections to the natural world by finding common patterns and symmetry in our surroundings. Several artists in “Disarming Geometries” choose to interrupt images with geometric patterns, cutting away, reconfiguring, and engaging materiality as a way of addressing the instability of our times.
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