A: Is for art that gives back!

It is artist that make the world go round and give us a sense of balance. I'd like to do a follow up on an artist we featured earlier. Grimanesa Amoros believes that communities should reflect beauty and give back a sense of potential energy that expands. Inspired by a the group of four women who founded Hudson River Community Health Center in the 1960s and are still active in the community. Their time and dedication had Grimanesa creating a project about them. "I admired their determination and accomplishment and feel it as motivation for my own work." Thru Nov. 17th at 161-01 Jamaica Avenue, in Queens a video is projected on the façade of the North Fork Bank. The juxtaposition of faces with images of flowing water is suggestive of the movement within the community, the merging of people from all imaginable origins on the vibrant sidewalks of Jamaica Avenue. The fusing, transforming, and scattering of these same faces forces the viewer to interrogate the nature of individuality, and how a shared identity can be forged out of dissimilarity. This project is part of the on going effort to revitalize the neighborhood. Now this is one artist who gives back to the community at large. Amoros becomes inspired by the world around her and creates beauty. We should become inspired by her and that is a F.A.C.T.