QCC Art Gallery/CUNY

QCC Art Gallery/CUNY The QCC Art Gallery of the City University of New York is a vital educational and cultural resource for the Queensborough Community College, the Borough of Queens and the surrounding communities.
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The Gallery is housed in the historic 1920's Oakland Building, formerly the Club House for the Oakland Country Club. Since 1966, the QCC Art Gallery has been an integral part of the College's educational program. The QCC Art Gallery was founded by the first Chairman of the College's Department of Art and Photography, Priva B. Gross, and was maintained largely through the support and vision of this department. On October 25, 1981, after five years of planning, the Gallery opened to the public with its first exhibit in its present facility, the historic Oakland Building, the oldest permanent structure on the campus. The design for the gallery was generated through a student competition, in a design class in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Design Drafting. Ms. Marsha Narowlansky, winner of the competition, as part of the award, joined the QCC Office of Campus Planning to supervise the execution of her architectural plan. Contributions from the Queensborough Student Association and Department of Art and Photography financed the renovation.

Mission: Housed on the grounds of the College, the QCC Art Gallery/CUNY reaches out to contribute to the educational and cultural vitality of the College and surrounding community. The Gallery's mission is to collect and preserve; present and interpret; educate and motivate; and stimulate new art production.

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All this snow is reminding us of Alaska, and is bringing us back to an exhibit held in 2017, Carving Life from the colle...
02/02/2021
Carving Life: Walrus Ivory Carvings from the Bering Sea

All this snow is reminding us of Alaska, and is bringing us back to an exhibit held in 2017, Carving Life from the collection of Eleanor Imperato.

The exhibition highlighted various walrus ivory carvings from the indigenous people who live around the Bering Sea in Alaska.

Carving LifeWalrus Ivory Carvings from the Bering SeaHosted at the QCC Art GalleryOctober 18, 2017 through January 17, 2018The Carving Life exhibition showca...

10/16/2020
Quintana Martelo - Memoria

In honor of Latino/Hispanic heritage month, we are taking a look back at a special exhibition Memoria.

November 20, 2009 - February 12, 2010

10/06/2020
norman gorbaty

It's with great sadness that we inform you that artist Norman Gorbaty passed away on September 26th comfortably and peacefully. The Gallery offers our sincerest condolences to the Gorbaty family.

We had the pleasure of sharing the Norman's work with the community in 2009. In celebration of Norman's incredibly talented life, we present the video walkthrough for "Works of a Modern Master."

In 1954 Norman Gorbaty was a promising young artist whose work was included in a modest show of American printmakers at New York's Museum of Modern Art. At A...

QCC Art Gallery / CUNY is nominated for Queens' favorite Art Gallery in Bethpage's annual "Best of the Boro" competition...
09/30/2020
Best of the Boro Voting - Best of the Boro

QCC Art Gallery / CUNY is nominated for Queens' favorite Art Gallery in Bethpage's annual "Best of the Boro" competition for 2021!
Vote for the QCC Art Gallery under Arts & Entertainment
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The Bethpage Best of Queens voting period is now closed.

09/25/2020
"A Brief History of Aviation" by David Henderson

Featured Film Friday!
We’re taking a look back to one of the Gallery’s special installation featured in the exhibition “A Brief History of Aviation!”
This exhibit was held in the QCC Art Gallery from July 1 - September 25, 2010.

Follow the link to watch an interview with artist David Henderson as he unveiled his site-specific installation inspired by the unique fan vaulting of Bath Abbey Chruch in England.

An interview with Artist David Henderson discusses unveils his site-specific installation inspired by the unique fan vaulting of Bath Abbey Church in England.

09/14/2020
Rudy Ernst presents... Dada Action Painting at the QCC Art Gallery

The Gallery is known for our unique and engaging programming. We look forward to reopening in the Spring to continue bringing quality exhibitions and performances to the Queens community.

Rudy Ernst: Action Painting at the QCC Art Gallery of April 21, 2009 Life is too short to worry about Wall Street's financial derivatives in the amount of "F...

CC Yang's interactive performance, 1000 years, invited the audience to create a human sculpture using materials that are...
10/07/2019

CC Yang's interactive performance, 1000 years, invited the audience to create a human sculpture using materials that are non-biodegradable bringing attention to the waste created by humanity.

09/19/2019
Invisible Love and Beauty (CC Yang)

CC Yang's performance "Invisible Love and Beauty" during the opening reception of "Reclaiming the Vision" is now available for viewing on YouTube! Yang's' exhibition is on view through October 11! Visit us today!!

Invisible Love and Beauty By CC Yang Performance held at the QCC Art Gallery September 5, 2019 Music "Psychedelic Crater" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Lic...

10/16/2018
TaiWonderful (Performed by Natural Kind Inspiration Garden at the QCC Art Gallery)

Now available on YouTube, the special performance held in conjunction with the exhibition WOW Taiwan titled TaiWonderful!

A dynamic interpretation of Taiwan, the performance is a combination of modern dance, aboriginal singing, a magic show and animated video. The interactive performance will illustrate the evolution of Taiwan from its initiation focusing on both the culture and natural landscape of the country.

Performers of TaiWonderful posing with the installation - X-Land from the exhibition WOWTaiwan! This exhibition is on vi...
10/10/2018

Performers of TaiWonderful posing with the installation - X-Land from the exhibition WOWTaiwan! This exhibition is on view until October 14th.

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07/16/2018

QCC Art Gallery/CUNY's cover photo

07/12/2017
Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art

The video walk through for Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art is now available on Youtube! Check it out!

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art Curated by Luchia Meihua Lee Faustino Quintanilla Fangling Tseng Amy Winter Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan March 24 - Ju...

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Huang Wen-Ying　黃文英:Huang Wen-Ying graduated from Cranbrook ...
05/02/2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Huang Wen-Ying　黃文英:

Huang Wen-Ying graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1993 with a concentration in fiber arts. She currently teaches at Tainan National University of the Arts, and continues to produce art using textiles. Starting in 2001, Huang has studied and practiced computerized Jacquard hand weaving, and since that time she has continued to develop this artistic form and explore its expressive possibilities.

Episode 1 evokes the impermanence of life, the heartlessness of nature, and the fragility of human civilization. In this work, Huang Wen-Ying weaves a piece of cloth using three pictures; when viewed in three different ways-under ordinary light, UV light, and in darkness-the three different images in the work are revealed in turn, and bring to mind the ceaseless contention, dependence, contradiction, and conflict between heaven, earth, and humankind.

Huang Wen-Ying 黃文英
Episode 1 插曲 1
Cotton, luminous yarn, spun polyester, 2012
UV light, timer for light switch, computer Jacquard hand weaving
Private Collection

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Poyen WangBorn in Taichung, Taiwan and based in New York, P...
05/01/2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Poyen Wang

Born in Taichung, Taiwan and based in New York, Poyen Wang has a background in Graphic Design. He received an MFA in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Fine Arts in Taiwan, and is currently pursuing a second MFA in Computer Art through the School of Visual Arts in New York. Wang is a conceptual media artist interested in experimental animation and video art. His work has been shown at museums, galleries and film festivals nationally and internationally, including National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and Sapporo International Art Festival in Japan, FILE: Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo, Screengrab International Media Arts Award in Australia and Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial in China.

The work "Construction of Intimacy," refers to the process of developing the cognitive self, which is partially shaped by the opinions, reactions, and evaluations of others. For this piece, Wang scanned his body. Gathering images from multiple cameras at various angles, he generated a 3D model from the composite data. Though the final digital 3D model is complete, each individual image captured from a single camera at a specific angle is incomplete.

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Hui-Lin Chuang:Chuang Hui-Lin was born in Kaohsiung in 1979...
04/20/2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Hui-Lin Chuang:

Chuang Hui-Lin was born in Kaohsiung in 1979. Chuang earned her degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts of Taipei National University of the Arts, and currently lives and works in Banqiao. Chuang specializes in mixed media sculpture and installation art, and her work is inspired by her urban experiences and impressions. She uses images, materials, and spaces to express her subtle mental reactions to the environments in which she finds herself. Using man-made products, Chuang Hui-Lin variously portrays the creation of nature, and calmly and painstakingly expresses the dependence, coexistence, conflict, and destruction that characterize the relationship of humans and the natural world.

The artist has given commonly-seen industrial source material new life as biomorphic objects, and uses them to relate the interdependent relationship of man-made objects and nature. People consume natural resources in their pursuit of more convenient material life, but in their spiritual worlds, they long to return to nature and revere the myriad things of nature. In this contradiction, "biomorphic" is an indispensable aspiration.

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Catherine Lan:Lan lives and works in Queens, NY; she was bo...
04/11/2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Catherine Lan:

Lan lives and works in Queens, NY; she was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1980. Currently a doctoral student in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, she obtained an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University (2007-2009), an Artist Diploma from École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts in Paris (2003-2006), and Bachelors in Oil Painting from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (1999-03). She is a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts Grant for Individual Artists (2015), and received the Andrea Frank Foundation Sanyu Scholarship from Yale University (2008-2010).

Lan explores esoteric new possibilities utilizing fashion and new media and materials such as synthetic fur, painting on plastic, video, glass sculpture, and performance to address themes including feminism and individuality. In her series of faux fur "relief paintings" she cuts fur to form relief-like “paintings” of undulating surfaces with modulated texture begging to be touched. Much like ink painting, the process is spontaneous and irreversible. The surface of the fabric changes color and texture with the motion of viewer and as the fabric is stroked the light projects different scenery.

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Wei-Lin Yang:Yang received a MFA from the Graduate Institut...
04/05/2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Wei-Lin Yang:

Yang received a MFA from the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts. Yang currently teaches in the Department of Material Arts and Design at Tainan National University of the Arts. She has participated in numerous international fiber art exhibitions, including Japan's 2013 Setouchi Triennale, and received an award of excellence in the 4th National Craft Awards.
Recently, she has directed the "Taiwan Fiber Art Research Project," and has engaged in numerous large-scale public fiber art projects and exhibition planning efforts. Yang's artistic themes commonly revolve around memory, time, communication, and writing. She uses a wide range of materials and techniques, including weaving, vegetable dying, paper-making, and book-binding.

The exhibition features Yang's work titled: Stream of Consciousness from the Collection of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Lulu Meng:Meng lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. She re...
04/04/2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art - Featured Artist of the Day - Lulu Meng:

Meng lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. She received a BA in drama and theater from National Taiwan University and an MFA in Imaging Arts, Photography and Related Media from Rochester Institute of Technology. Meng has participated as an artist-in-residence at venues such as Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn), Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute (Berkeley), DordtYart (Netherlands), and WARP Artist Village (Belgium). Her works have been exhibited in Cuchifritos Gallery (New York), New York Hall of Science, Queens Botanical Garden, Power Plant gallery (Durham), Berkeley Art Center, William Harris Gallery, and National Taiwan University. She is currently participating in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

The work exhibited in the exhibition Rewoven: Threshold - explores the formation and relationships of individual and social identities. Elongated sleeves have been constructed from different white cloths from white dress shirts. Sleeves—familiar objects relating to the human body—are deconstructed and transformed into arrays of hanging pieces. They aggregate into tall and flexible structures with a conspicuous human-shaped opening. The viewer can interact with this piece by speculating which of the three openings would accommodate him. Consideration of whether and how to adjust himself to the opening recapitulates the individual’s negotiation with the social environment. It is noteworthy that the fabric of society, represented by the woven cloth, rebounds and returns to its original state after disturbance by the individual. #Rewoven #QCCArtGallery #TAAC

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04/03/2017

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Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art is now on view! Visit us today!
04/02/2017
New Fiber Art Exhibit at QCC

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art is now on view! Visit us today!

An exhibit at Queensborough Community College uses some unconventional materials to teach people about fiber art.

03/21/2017
Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art at QCC Art Gallery/CUNY installation- Day one

Please join us on March 30th from 5-8pm opening reception for Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art. Have a look at the installation progress through a video made by FiNi (Ildikó Balogh Bathó).

Thank you to FiNi (Ildikó Balogh Bathó )for making this wonderful video - Rewoven first day installation at QCC Art Gallery/Cuny. The exhibit will have an op...

12/24/2016

The QCC Art Gallery would like to wish everyone a very Happy Holidays! Thank you for your support throughout the year!

Visit the Gallery today, and check out From Land to Sea by American artist Mara Sfara. The exhibition will be on display...
12/01/2016
Mythological Fantasy Exhibit At Queensborough College

Visit the Gallery today, and check out From Land to Sea by American artist Mara Sfara. The exhibition will be on display through January 20, 2017.

“In the Gardens of Mount Olympus” is a modern mythological fantasy that recreates the world of the Greek mythological gods, goddesses, and creatures, turning them into modern day fables through visual arts, dance and music. This installation piece is part of the exhibit, “From Land...

Jules Allen Photography
10/24/2016

Jules Allen Photography

Mark the Date -- Marching Bands Book Signing Event -- Saturday, 11.12.16 from 3-5pm, Steven Kasher Gallery, NY, NY

10/18/2016
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Vote for the QCC Art Gallery for the Queens Courier's Best of the Boro competition. Please follow the link below and select "Art Gallery".

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05/06/2016

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Joint us tomorrow for our inaugural Literary Arts Salon with special guests Jonathan Galassi, Maria Lisella, Kimiko Hahn...
04/30/2016

Joint us tomorrow for our inaugural Literary Arts Salon with special guests Jonathan Galassi, Maria Lisella, Kimiko Hahn and Eleanor Imperato!

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02/08/2016

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