Beginning January 2005 African Art: Highlights from the Gallery's Permanent Collection. Queensborough’s Permanent Collection of African art includes masks, figures, household and ritual objects, body décor, ceremonial costumes, and textiles from the Western Sudan, the West Atlantic Coast to Central Africa, and East and Southern Africa.

Febrauary - March 2005 Painting With Fire - Carole A. Feuerman Sculptures. Feuerman's sculpture combines breathtaking super realist technique with a humanist approach to their subjects. The work in resin, cast marble, bronze, and other materials, often painted-ranges from early erotic reliefs through full-scale sculptures of athletes and nudes.

April 2005 Artists & Patrons in African Art. The sculpture in this exhibition comes to Queensborough Community College via the collection of Gary Schulze, who began studying African objects during his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone during the early 1960. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Schulze has gathered an impressive selection of traditional African sculpture in a variety of media.

Beginning Spring 2005 Marlene Tseng Yu. Selected works will be exhibited in the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery.

Exhibitions History

Each year, the Gallery presents a variety of political, historical and educational exhibits. Themes for specific exhibitions come from a variety of sources, both within and outside the College community. Over the years, faculty of the Art and Photography Department have maintained a close association with the Gallery and its programs. As artists and scholars with wide-ranging interests and contacts, they have generously shared their expertise and suggested areas which warrant exploration; artists whose work merits exposure; or scholars, critics and curators to serve as jurors for the annual art competition. Often, exhibitions are planned in conjunction with other campus events and activities. Some of the most notable past exhibits include:

October 2004 - January 2005 An American Odyssey, 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism]. The exhibit will examine American art post World War II and its relationship to moernism and competing art movements including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Post-Painterly Abstraction, the New Realism, Assemblage and Environments, and Minimalism.

2000 Rascal in La - La Land, featuring the works of the Ecuadorian Hugo Xavier Bastidas. AMSA2000: American Medallic Sculpture Association millennium exhibit. Perspectives, by Queens artist Constance Del Vecchio/Maltese, celebrating the achievements of women.

1999 Ruth Leaf Studio: Thirty-Year Restrospective, of the work of this prolific Queens artist, author and gifted teacher. Angelo Filomeno, drawings and sculptures made possible by the Comune di San Michele Salentino, Brindisi ( Italy ). Charles Schucker 1908-1998: An American Master.

1998 Valentin Popov: Works from the Czech artist, made possible by the Minister of the Czech Republic ; Danny Lyon: Memories of the Student Southern Civil Rights Movement, featuring photographs from the period by Danny Lyon, and Queens of Yesteryear: A Photographic Documentation. Historic presentation celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Boroughs of the City of New York .

1997 Africa 's Legacy in Mexico , featuring photographs by Tony Gleaton; A Celebration: 30 Years of Collecting, honoring President Kurt R. Schmeller's 30 years of fostering the arts at Queensborough Community College; Roy Euker, featuring work by the renowned architect; and Painting on Light, by the French artist André Girard. Made possible by the Girard Atalier in Paris, France .

1996 Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer, a photographic essay by internationally recognized photographer Bruce Talamon; Broadway, featuring Cuban artist Randy Barcelo, who is known for costume and set designs; and Dos Epocas y Algo Mas, a retrospective of work by Colombian artist Silvio DelaCruz. Made possible by the Colombian Consulate in New York and Medellin 's Borough Hall , Colombia.

1995 Multimedia Harlem Renaissance, celebrating a flowering of black literary, theatrical, visual and musical arts in America ; John Hawkins: Woodcuts, 1970-1995, celebrating Hawkins 25 years as artist and educator at QCC; and Collection/ReCollection, a look at Roxanne WolanczykI's childhood experiences through audio recording and video projection onto fabric membrane within a tire swing.

1994 Modern Martyrs, Anthony Scaricolal's series of socially- and religiously-oriented sculptures; 3 Women Painters, featuring artists Marguerite Fuller, Pamela Smilow and Emily Maxwell; and Puerta 10: Latinoamerica 1995. New Colombian Art in New York.

1992 Labyrinth, the work of Margot Lovejoy; an exhibit of work by Wallace Putnam 1993 Jules Allen: Hats and Hat Nots, which reflected the human experience, dreams and disappointments of Harlem 's African-American community; Brother Thomas Bezanson: Recent Gifts of Porcelain, the work of renowned potter Brother Bezanson; and Metamorphosis of the Human Mind, featuring award-winning graphic designer Henry Lewis.

1991 Thornton Dial: Strategy of the World, which presented the work of Thornton Dial; Women Printmakers: An Intimate View, which surveyed the development and understanding of printmaking as a medium; and Ecuador : Arte y Tradicion, an inaugural celebration commemorating the 500th year of the discovery of America , featuring such artists as Carlos Viver, Arturo Constante, Estuardo Maldonado and Enrique Tabara.

1990 Black Photographers: 1840-1940, documentation of black involvement in the arts, politics, religion, domestic life and human struggles; and American Women Artists: The 20th Century, which included 48 of the century's most influential women artists, such as Peggy Bacon, Theresa Bernstein, Neil Blaine, Dorothy Dehner, Claire Moore, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O'Keefe.

1989 Signals, which presented nine artists whose manipulation of technology led them to examine deeper socio-political implications of technologies they use. Featured artists included Suzan Kaplan, Bill Bell, and Terry Berkowitz.

1988 The Politics of Gender, which drew together the work of 13 women artists to answer the question "What is a woman if she is defined by culture?"

1987 Romanticism and Classicism, which reflected the legacy of romanticism and classicism during the late 20th century, and included artists Sol LeWitt, Muriel Castanis and April Gornick.

1986 Art and Photography Faculty Exhibit, featuring artwork of Queensborough Community College Faculty.

1985 The Parodic Power of Popular Imagery, which explored ways in which popular imagery has entered the visual arts. Artists included David Stolz, Karen Shaw, Ed Paschke and Les Levine.

1984 Politics in Art, an examination of the relationship between politics and art, which featured work by Jack Levine, Marisol, Picasso, Rockwell Kent.

1983 The Walls of the 70s, an overview of art production in the 70's, featuring work by Frank Stella, Nancy Spiro, Alice Neel, Milton Resnick, Alan Kleiman and Leon Golub.

1982 The Four Arts in the Baroque, a print exhibition celebrating the Baroque.

1981 Andre Girard (1901-1968), a retrospective celebrating the artist's work and achievement.