Traveling photo exhibit comes to Queens

In celebration of over 70 years of displaying public art, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation’s (HHC) Art Collection presents New York City: IN FOCUS.
The exhibit is comprised of color and black & white prints that focuses on iconic imagery associated with the city, including landscape, people and culture found throughout the five boroughs.
The exhibition, supported by the Bronx Council on the Arts and Fourth Street Photo Gallery is currently on exhibit at the Queens Hospital Center’s main lobby, located at 82-68 164th Street in Jamaica.
As part of the HHC’s first ever traveling photographic exhibition, the gallery first opened up in Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan on October 9, 2008, moving onto Jacoby Medical Center in the Bronx on October 26, 2008, finally landing in the Jamaica-based hospital.
Although it’s slated to only be open until December 2, Gregory Mink, HHC art administrator, said that it may prolong its stay at Queens Hospital Center depending on how many people turn out.
Mink also stated that another photo exhibition might take place during Black History Month in 2009.
Among the artists featured is James Van Der Zee, the famous African-American photographer who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the early 20th century. He also photographed entrepreneur and journalist Marcus Garvey and American poet Countee Cullen.
Marilyn Nance, another featured artist, is the recipient of numerous awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, the Art Matters Fellowship, and the Sheroes Among Us Award for Accomplishments in the Field of Art.
The event offers the opportunity for numerous museums, galleries, educators and the general public to become familiar with the HHC Art Collection.
For more information you can go to the website www.nyc.gov/hhc.