Another Coup for the QCC Art Gallery

Rosemarie Koczy's amazing work has an honored place in the QCC Art Gallery Collection, as do her memoirs published under the auspices of the QCC Art Gallery Press.

You can purchase her memoirs or the book that accompanied her recent exhibit at QCC by clicking here.

8 Years of Highlights

If you've ever doubted the majesty of what takes place inside the QCC Art Gallery, or if you've missed any past exhibits, check out the review pages below for an eye-opener.

2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006

The KHC at QCC

Yet another prime location for discovering art on the QCC campus is the Kupferberg Holocaust Center.


The KHC always has a full calendar of events and exhibits, but also has some amazing work on permanent display, some of which has been previously featured at this blog and its sister MOJO blog.


Works like David Schwab's "Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" are currently on exhibit, but to get an idea of the breadth and depth of things past and things to come, visit the KHC site.

Better yet, visit the KHC in-person!

The Kupferberg Holocaust Center, just inside the main gate to QCC-CUNY,
not far from the QCC Art Gallery, the Sculpture Garden, and the Art & Design Department.

QCC AG Highlights: 2013

Holocaust survivor Rosemary Koczy's work is part of the QCC AG Permanent Collection
and the QCC AG Press has published all three volumes of her memoirs.

It isn't every gallery that can claim it had three exhibits of vast cultural significance on display within one calendar year. In fact, very few could claim one. But the QCC Art Gallery achieved this distinction in 2013, thanks to the bravura efforts of its Executive Director, Faustino Quintanilla.

Click pics to view more.

QCC AG Highlights: 2011

2011 was another banner year for the QCC Art Gallery, displaying works both varied and of exquisite quality. Modernism, Pop-Art and Fantasy predominated, expressed in a range of media and motifs, it is a year worth remembering.

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Architecture: KHRCA

View of the KHRCA past this profile of Despair

The Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archive(KHRCA) at QCC-CUNY is one of the finest institutions of its kind, and to add allure for scholars, as well as for any with refined aesthetic sensibilities, it is housed within an intriguing building near the main gate on campus.

The terrace at the KHRCA, for moments of reflection

QCC Art Film Fest: Koczy as Witness

Rosemarie Koczy was a tortured soul. But having survived the Holocaust, who could blame her?

What is more important, she overcame her horrors by becoming a great artist, responsible for sensitizing millions who might never have been so touched had it not been for her gifts.

Her recent exhibit at the QCC Art Gallery was a great triumph, as was the publication of her memoirs by the QCC Art Gallery Press.

Enjoy the short videography below.

QCC Art Gallery Diversity

Click the flags below to gain some appreciation of the diversity encompassed and embraced by
the QCC Art Gallery's collection and visiting exhibits.

QCC Art Film Fest: Samuel Bak

The work of Samuel Bak is distinctive for its beauty, as well as its richly contrived world of despair and angst.


His colorful, yet unsettling, work was in full force at the QCC Art Gallery not long ago, and luckily enough, you can relive it below.

Enjoy the short videography below.

Don't Forget Rosemarie

This impressive totem carved by Rosemarie Koczy
stands in the foyer of the KHRCA.

Just a few short years ago, the QCC Art Gallery presented an extensive retrospective of the art of Holocaust survivor Rosemarie Koczy, much of whose work is part of the permanent collection of the QCC Art Gallery.


Alas, as commodious as it may be, there's only so much space within the confines of the QCC Art Gallery. Thus, much of the work is no longer on display.


Luckily though, one of Rosemarie's largest and most impressive woodcuts is always viewable upon entering another venerable cultural institution at QCC, namely the KHRCA, which is always worth a visit when you find time.


Additionally, if you want to feel even closer to Rosemarie or her work, you might also consider buying her three volume memoir published under the auspices of the QCC Art Gallery Press.

A Sad Anniversary

A detail from Sam Bak's Collective as it appeared in a recent QCC Art Gallery exhibit.

As the anniversary of that terrible incident known as “Kristallnacht” approaches, consider a visit to the KHRCA. Once there, educate yourself and your students regarding the various depravities to which our species seems prone, so that atrocities may become aberrations of our distant past.

QCC Art Gallery Video One-Stop

Some of the most impressive and useful content posted on this blog is the video accompaniment for QCC Art Gallery exhibits, but this content would not even exist without the stellar efforts of the Office of Marketing and Communications at QCC-CUNY.

Providing readers with a glimpse of exhibits is an art in itself, requiring many hours of shooting and editing, as well as assuaging the interests of both artists and the Director. It's not an easy job, but they do it well.

And now, you can view much of their work related to the QCC Art Gallery via a newly created YouTube Playlist found here.

Art of Despair

They are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and friends. They are workmates, peers and colleagues. They constitute roughly half of the human race(probably the more compassionate and decent half), and yet they suffer in disproportion to their numbers. Whether in Belarus, Guatemala, Kurdistan, Romania or any place else you might name, this is typically the case.

Explore the depths of their suffering by visiting the KHRCA today. And bring your students if you can. Perhaps, if we have the courage to face the truth, we can build a world with less suffering and sadness.

Koczy Memoirs Complete

All three volumes of the Rosemarie Koczy Memoirs are now available,

thanks to the the QCC Art Gallery Press.

Click any volume above to inspect it further.

Laughing at Dictators

Though I'm sure that Bono's recent testimony before Congress does not constitute a workable strategy for minimizing the impact of Terror in our time, his point is well taken: Dictators are misguided fools who inspire allegiance and fear in those who grant them the privilege. Laugh at their vanity and megalomania, but ignore them at your own peril.

For a lesson, stop by the KHRCA on Wednesday, May 11th at 12:10 PM 

to view a screening of Charlie Chaplin's Great Dicatator.

Let Us Now Remind Ourselves

In his The Life of Reason, Santayana wrote:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 

With the help of great art, imbued with that immediacy so necessary to ignite our imagination and compassion, may we never forget the horror and depravity of past generations.


Enjoy two videos of outstanding exhibits that reminded us to remember.

To expand any video's proportions, merely click the icon in its lower right-hand corner.

Maria Hupfield Speaks

Though currently based in Brooklyn, artist Maria Hupfield is a member of Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario.

She is a recipient of the 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and has show at the New York Museum of Art and Design, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the International Performance Festival in Toronto. She has participated in the 2014 AIM Program Bronx Museum and Winter Workspace Program Glyndor Gallery Wave Hill 2013. And her three-part performance intervention “Artist Tour Guide” was originally commissioned by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NYC).


Best of all, she'll be visiting the QCC-CUNY on Tuesday, March 29 to deliver a Visiting Artist Talk. Won't you join us? For details click, Maria Hupfield Talk at QCC.