The Queens Museum and The Cooper Union School of Art to Cohost a Talk by Artist Ulrike Müller, 4/29

Ulrike Müller, The Conference of the Animals, (detail of mural), 2020. The Large Wall at the Queens Museum. [Image Description: Monochrome photograph of a large-scale mural comprised of lots of geometric outlines of animals, somewhat abstract in form, there is a handrail in the foreground.]

Wednesday, April 29, from 7 to 8pm EST, via Zoom 

The Queens Museum and The Cooper Union School of Art are cohosting an artist’s talk by Ulrike Müller, The Cooper Union School of Art’s Fall 2019 Alex Katz Chair in Painting, on her new commission for the Queens Museum’s Large Wall. For her mural The Conference of the Animals, Müller draws on histories of public art and muralism before and after World War II, while also referencing the Panorama of the City of New York permanently on view at the Queens Museum. Müller is collaborating with curator and critic Amy Zion, whose project 120 Years of Children Drawing New York City will coincide and overlap with her mural. 

In her enamel paintings, woven wool rugs, and works on paper, Müller’s seemingly abstract vocabulary of colors and shapes is emotionally and politically charged, and encourages figurative readings. For the Queens Museum, she foregrounds the painted wall and presents giant animal-like shapes. Their muted palette and monumental scale draws on 20th century histories of public art and muralism, while also making reference to the expansive miniature at the heart of the Queens Museum: the Panorama of the City of New York. 

You can sign up for Queens Museum mailing list and get the zoom call information here.