LIC-A Program History 1985 – 2025
2025
Contemporary Prints - Traditional to Digital, curated by Essye Klempner , June 12 - July 12, 2025, Reception: June 12, 5-8pm
Different Worlds, Wagner Secondary School of Art & Technology, curted by Rasheda Brown, May 29 - June 6, 2025
LIC Arts Open 12, 2025
LIC Arts Open Closing Party & 10 x 10" Silent Auction Fundraiser, 6:30pm - 9:30pm - Closing Party & 10 x 10 Silent Auction / Dance Performance / Music, 43-01 21st St. Suite #123 with Music by DJ Raphael Guzman & Dance Performances by Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre
Drawing Workshop - Cuerpos de Nopal - by Manuel Hernandez - Create your own Cactus Character at Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 47th Ave, LIC, NY, May 18, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Puppet workshop led by artist Daniel Valle / outdoor area Focal Point Brewery (all ages welcome) (more details)
Performance by Jana Astanov Teaching AI to be Me, part of the "Memory" exhibition at 43-01 21st St, Suite #123, 5pm, May 18
PaintCan Studios Group Exhibition, organized by Michele Bonelli, 10-10 44th Ave 3rd Floor Long Island City, New York 11101, 12pm - 6pm, May 17 & 18, 2025
Visual Fantasy - Deconstruction of Sculpture by Jim Schutte, Vital Art Studios, 50-14 Skillman Ave. New York, NY 11377
Sunnyside Arts, Friends of Sunnyside Arts, 45-18 Skillman Ave, Sunnyside NY 11104, 9:30am - 6:00pm
Arcana Crawl Tarot Parade: Creek to River - Gotham Point South to Gantry and back, LIC NY, 7:30pm - 9:00pm with Dance performance by Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre @ The Gantry (Parade organized by Sally Beauti Twin and Heather Rose Piper.
Show & Tell Artists Lecture Series, New York Irish Center, 1040 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, May 17, 3-5pm
Open Studios (multiple Venues found on the (festival map), May 17 & 18, 12pm - 6pm
Ceramics Workshop - with Brickhouse Ceramic Artist Jacob Reinstein hosted by @ Trends LIC, 27-25 44th Drive, LIC NY
Cuerpos de Nopal - A Solo Exhibition by Manuel Hernandez at Culture Lab LIC,
Bard High School EC Queens Student Artworks at 43-01 21st Suite #104
Barkus Artikus, Bark Frameworks Annual Group Exhibition at 43-01 21 street Suite #104
Anima, an Interactive Outdoor Experience, presented by The Blue Bus Project & LIC Arts Open, 46-16 Vernon Blvd., LIC NY
The Roving Artist: Visual Voyages . Artworks by Bonnie Astor at The Local, 1302 44 Avenue, Long Island City, NYC
Ann Cofta Solo Exhibition curated by Raluca Anchidin at Aubergine, 49-22 Skillman Avenue, Woodside, NY
The Space and The In Between - A group exhibition by Brickhouse Ceramic Art Center at 43-01 21st Suite #123
Memory curated by Carolina Penafil at 43-01 21st Suite #123, Long Island City, NY Suite #123
The Good Neighbor, curated by Raluca Anchidin at 43-01 21st Suite 123
Cosmic Concrete: An Urban Oasis, curated by Yvette Hidalgo at Trends LIC, 27-25 44th Dr. LIC, NY
Infinite Resolution, Linda Bradford, Wills III Building, 43-49 10th Street, Studio #308, LIC, NY
into the microverse - Micrographia- an experimental sci-art installation by Shae Nadine / Subtleflux, Diego Salazar Studios, 43-32 22nd St., LIC NY, Studio #102-1B
Interwoven Landscapes presented by LIC Arts Open at The Experimental Space, 43-01 22nd St. LIC NY, Suite #300
LIC After Dark, a group exhibition. 43-42 12th Street, Long Island City, NY
LIC Arts OPEN KICKOFF Party, May 14, 6:30pm - 9:30pm - The Local NYC - Music, Dance, Refreshments, 13-02 44th Ave, Long Island City, NY with Music by Sunshine (aka Samantha) & A Spring Dance by Blissin Out (Nika Antuanette & Jeremy Cone)
Points of Transition, curated by Sherwin Banfield, May 7 - 24, 2025, Reception: May 7, 5-8pm
Puppet making Workshops, May 3,4,10 & 11, 2025, 12noon - 6pm at The LIC-A Art Space
Reveal the light, New Work by Queens College and Kingsborough Community College Students, curated by Steven Harris, Feb 5 -26, Reception: Feb 5, 5-8pm
Dreams Can Be Memories, Feb 12 - March 15, 2025 at Trends LIC, Adrien Marcais & Dareece Walker
Wagner High School January 2025 (Large Gallery at The Factory LIC)
Worlds Aglow, curated by Caroline Voagen Nelson, January
2024
March 5th – March 23rd, 2024, LICA @ Atlantic: Spring 2024
March 13 - May 1, 2024, “Drawing Beyond the Surface”, curated by Jorge Posada
March 23, 2024, Artists Talk for LIC-A @ Atlantic Gallery:LIC-A Artists, Kirsten Borror, Xan Cambeiro, Liz Foulks, Roxanna Gheorge, Steven Harris, Nina Hellman, Laura King, Gail Meyers, Shae Nadine, Rebecca Sherman
April 25, 2024, “Seeing and Feeling”, Reflections on drawing, its evolution, its power, its possible future. A talk moderated by curator Jorge Posada, & LIC-A artists Laura King & Peter Depelchin
March 13 - May 1, 2024, “Drawing Beyond the Surface”, curated by Jorge Posada
Summer Members Showcase I & II, (July & August 2024)
September/ October
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, & Blue?"- curated by Ellen Fagan (Odetta Gallery)"
November - Ceramic Exhibition - curator TBA (Artist Talk & Curator talk)
Nov 5 - December 14: Holiday Art Fair Off the Wall @ Culture LAb LIC- (curated by Norma Homberg & Nancy Bruno)
Dec 13, 2023 - Feb 7, 2024, “Drawing into Sculpture” curated by Matt Nolen
2023
Dec 13 - Feb 7, 2024, “Drawing into Sculpture” curated by Matt Nolen
October 12 - November 22, 2023, "Abstract/Abstraction", curated by Marilee Cooper and Michele Bonelli
September 26, 2023, Unlock the Magic of Polaroid Emulsion Lifts with Artist Natali Barbee
July 26 - September 27, 2023, "To Darken, Lightly", curated by Audra Lambert
June 8 - July 12, 2023, “Truth Tellers” curated by Karen Gormandy, Issa Ibrahim & Boo Lynn Walsh
April 22, 2023, Wax Art Workshop - Molybdomancy Group Ritual led by Artist Nazli Efe
April 6 - May 24, 2023, ActionReaction, Curated by Marie Anine Møller
March 5th – March 23rd, 2024, LICA @ Atlantic: Spring 2024
March 23, 2024, Artists Talk for LIC-A @ Atlantic Gallery:LIC-A Artists, Kirsten Borror, Xan Cambeiro, Liz Foulks, Roxanna Gheorge, Steven Harris, Nina Hellman, Laura King, Gail Meyers, Shae Nadine, Rebecca Sherman
Feb 8 - March 22 , 2023, A Larger Idea, Curated by Jorge Posada & Alexis Mendoza
2022
Off The Wall Holiday Art Fair at Culture Lab LIC, November 5 - Dec 18, 2022
LIC-A @ Atlantic, April 12 - 30, 2022
2021
Heritage @ Queens College, March 5 - April 5, 2021
LIC-A @ Atlantic, April 22 - May 8th, 2021
May 21 - June 12, 2021 Outside/Outsider - Artists confronting Mental Illness, curated by Fountain House's Karen Gromandy & Issa Ibrahim at Local Project, 11-27 44th rd., Long Island City, NY 11101
Panel Discussion (online only): Saturday May 22nd, 4-5pm
Family Workshop with Gail Meyers, June 6, 12pm - 2pm
Film Festival: June 11 @ 7:30pm (In person & Live Stream), Local Project, 11-27 44th Rd, Long Island City, NY 11101
2020
Astoria Music Project Presents, 2020 VISION, Part of the Music She Wrote Season 2019-2020 Season, Dec 6th & 13th (Online!)
LIC-A @ Atlantic 2020, November 12-14, 18-21, 27, 28, 2020
Someone Will Remember Us, even from another time, curated by Lis di Donato, September 17 - October 17, 2020
Life Interupted curated by Orestes Gonzalez
Six Perspectives curated by Chuck Baker
Dreamscapes, a solo exhibition by Carol Crawford funded by the Queens Council on the Arts
Opening reception on January 18th, 7-10pm with live music by Carolyn Weller is a singer/songwriter, performing her original jazz with Oliver Glynn on keys, a diverse jazz musician and composer.
Claytopian New York curated by Matt Nolan, Feb 15 - March 20th, 2020 (cut short due to covid)
Back to the Table, curated by Nancy Bruno and Puneeta Mttal, Feb 15 - March 20th, 2020 (cut short due to covid)
LIC-A's First Online Members Spring Exhibition
ONLINE DRAWING EXHIBITION DRAWINGS IN A TIME OF SOCIAL DISTANCING - curated by Jorge Posada - June 2020
2019
Creative Mosaic, Artists Working in Queens curated by Osman Can Yerebakan
Closing Reception for Crashing the Party
CreArt Music Festival CreArt Box Concert
Romeo and Juliet, Rude Rooms Theatre
Opening Night for Crashing the Party, Rinascimento Femminile, Unbridled
Crushing Baby Animals, Dirt [contained] Theater
Photo Talk: Urban Dance
Opening Night for Urban Dance, Summer Salon 2019,Welcome to the Multiverse
Peace, a Massacre, and the Umbrella,Theatre
Sew Buttons On Ice Cream, Chessa Metz and Jay William Thomas Theatre
Opening of LIC-A Members Showcase
Painted Alice Original Musical Theatre
Opening Reception for Faces, Drink Me, Taste Me, PS/IS78 Middle School Showcase
LIC(K) - Drag & Burlesque Show
Panel Discussion Inside/Outside Inside/Outside Exhibition
The Tempest Production, The Secret Theatre
Rebirth Workshop
One Big Opening 4 Exhibitions Inside / Outside, ...dream again, Women in Art, Rebirth
Wine Pairings, Junko Yamada and Gary Hulton
Pairings Artists in Conversation Exhibition Talk
Opening for Pairings Exhibition
2018
Off the Wall, Holiday Market & Opening for Off the Wall Exhibition
LIC Arts: Past and Present, Queens Library’s Queens Memory Program Community Event
Twelfth Night, Rude Rooms Theatre
Opening Brunch - The Politics of Space, The Sculptors Guild
Carnival Macabre - Halloween Ball, Manipulated Life & LIC Fear Returns Fundraisers for Community Organizations
The Witch of Edmonton, Rude Rooms Theatre
Horror Film Festival Mordus band, Tessa, and Jason Film
FARMED: A Live Podcast Album, George Orwell's Animal Farm
Opening Receptions for Manipulated Life & LIC Fear Returns
Opening Receptions for My White Dress, Fever, & Unnatral Selection
Much Ado About Nothing , Unhealthy at Battalion Theatre Co Theatre
Yours, And Always, Only Yours , Stripped Scripts Theatre
Opening Reception for Rock, Paper, Scissors
Opening Reception for Spring Members Showcase & LIC Arts Open
Closing Reception for A Fresh Civility
NON: (Teach Me How To Dance), A Fresh Civility Dance workshop
Waggle It! -Earth Day Dance for the Honey Bee! Salt Tree Art, Community Event
Common Thread, Queens College CUNY MFA Workshop
Opening Reception for Escape Velocity & A Fresh Civility
Sound Meditation, Healing Arts Sound Practitioner
Opening Reception for Then She Did, Eileen Coyne, Women in Art 2018
3rd Annual Fat Tuesday Crawfish Boil, Rockaway Brewery Community Event
2017
New Year's Eve Funky Formal, LICA Fundraiser
Workshops for Children and Families, Michelle Goguen
Opening Reception, Winter Sculpture Show & Masks Of The Quotidian
Opening Reception for Art From the City's Hearts & Hundred Year
Opening Reception for LiC-A Fall Salon Show
Halloween Masquerade Ball, LICA Fundraiser
Opening Reception for LIC Fear
Horror Themed Film Festival, LIC Fear
Video Screening Beach Elements IV Film
Cotton Candy and Cocaine, Theatre C
Opening Reception for Making Connections
Garden of Delights Live Theatre
Opening for Garden of Delights Fine Art Exhibition
Insitu Site-Specific Dance Festival
Opening for Walk with Light Fine Art Exhibiton
Opening for Spring Showcase Fine Art Exhibition
Opening for Over the Bridge LiC-A @ Atlantic gallery, Chelsea
Opening for 8 LOVES Fine Art Exhibition
Opening for ART from Our City
Stripped Scripts Reading
2016
LIC Fall /Spring Arts Open @Plaxall Gallery
2015
LIC Fall/Spring Arts Open
Open Studios 7 large Group Exhibitions
2014
Bridging the Gap, Queensborough Community College; Artists Talk
May 2014 Open Studios in conjunction with LIC Artists member exhibitions at:
Studio 34, LIC: May:Open Studios group show
Falchi Building, LIC, May: MEMBERS’ GROUP SHOW
Community Cases, Citigroup, May: MEMBERS’ GROUP SHOW
Paintcan Studios, LIC, May: Open Studios group show
2013- 14
Bridging the Gap,3-venue Traveling juried exhibition funded by QCA, curator Amy Winter,
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College/CUNY
President’s Gallery, La Guardia Community College, Artist Talk
Flushing Town Hall, a Smithsonian Affiliate, Artists Talk; Family Workshop: Sun Printing by Artist Mary Pinto
Qcc Gallery, Queensborough Community College,/CUNY
2012
Sterling Bank Exhibition Series 2012 -13 LIC Artists members showcase Summer Show Series
Sterling National Bank, 30-30 47th Avenue, Long Island City; June Show 1: June 4 - July 14; Show 2: July 16 - August 18
May 2012 Open Studios in conjunction with LIC Artists member exhibitions at:
The Clocktower Building, 29-27 Queens Plaza North, ground floor
Eleven-11 Lofts, 11-11 44th Road, Long Island City
PaintCan Studios, 10-10 44th Avenue, LIC Artists hosts the Unity Stage performances of "MUSEUM" a play by Tina Howe
Words Become Air, December 28 - April 17, 2012 at Space Realty Group Gallery and Holiday Inn Manhattan View
2011
Open Studios, May 21 - 22, 2011 in conjunction with LIC-Artists
without studios exhibition at PaintCan Studios
In the Eye of the Beholder, February 24 - May 25, 2011 at Space Realty Group Gallery and Holiday Inn Manhattan View
Armature of an Idea, December - February 22, 2011 at Space Realty Group Gallery and Holiday Inn Manhattan View
Catalogue to commemorate LIC Artists 25th/Silver Anniversary
2010
Light and Dark, October 1 - December 14, 2010 at Space Realty Group Gallery a
nd Holiday Inn Manhattan View
The Voice of Fire, May 27 - August 25, 2010 at Space Realty Group Gallery and Holiday Inn Manhattan View
LIC Artists Open Studios, May 22 - 23, 2010
ArmoryFest 2010, at Space Realty Group Gallery, Holiday Inn Manhattan View and Clocktower
Silent Auction to benefit the Floating Hospital, March 5, 2010 at PaintCan Studios, 10-10 44th Avenue
The Badge Building Exhibits - 12 artists were selected, one per month, to exhibit in The Badge building lobby, 10-55 47th Avenue
2009
LIC Artists Open Studios, May 30 - 31, 2009
Trans-Positions Along the Queensboro Bridge, May 28 - July 31, at the Clocktower Building, Holiday Inn,
Packard Square Lobby and Space Realty Group
The Armory Show 2009, LIC Artists Exhibition, March 5 - 8, 2009, at PaintCan Studios, 10-10 44th Avenue
Change, March 7 - April 26, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
Visible/Invisible, at Space Realty Group Gallery and Holiday Inn Manhattan View
2008
LIC Artists Open Studios/11101 Exhibitions, May 17 – 18, 2008
Juvenal Reis Studios, Diego Salazar Studios, RealArt, Mittman I.S. 1, Bliss Street Studio Gallery
Celebrate, 5-46 50th Avenue, Long Island City
Art-O-Mat, 46-46 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City www.licweb.com/artomat
Citigroup Atrium, One Court Square, Long Island City
La Vuelta Bistro, 10-43 44th Drive, Long Island City
Juvenal Reis Studios Experimental Space, 43-01 22nd Street, Long Island City
2007
QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College Bayside
Long Island City Artists Open Studios
2006
Long Island City Artists 20th Anniversary Open Studios
QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College Bayside
Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building, Jamaica, NY
P.S. 1, Long Island City
Citibank, Court Square, Long Island City
Catalogue - commemorating - 20th Anniversary
2005
Long Island City Artists Open Studios
Citibank, Court Square, Long Island City
2004
Long Island City Artists Open Studios
Long Island City Arts Weekend
LIC Artists, Members Exhibition, Queens Theatre in the Park
2003
LIC Artists, Inc., Open Studios
Citibank, Court Square, Long Island City
2002
LIC Artists Open Studios at LIC Artlofts and other art studios in LIC, NY
Citibank, Court Square, Long Island City
2001
LIC Artists Open Studios During Art Frenzy 2001: LIC Artists Open studios
Citibank, Court Square, Long Island City
Catalogue - commemorating - Art Frenzy
2000
LIC Artlofts, Small Works Holiday Exhibition, Long Island City, NY
1999
Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building, Jamaica, NY
Landscape- Urban to Outback, at Queens Council on the Arts (QCA), Forest Park, NY
1998
Henry DeFord III Gallery, From Our Side of the River, Court Square, LIC, NY
Citicorp Community Showcases, Court Square, LIC, NY
1997
LIC Artlofts, Small Works Holiday exhibition & Open Studios
Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Holiday exhibition
1996
Henry De Ford III Gallery, East Bank Artists, Court Square, LIC, NY
Citicorp Community Showcases, Court Square, LIC, NY
Catalogue - East Bank Artists Exhibition
1995
Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building, Jamaica, NY, LIC Artists
LIC Artlofts, Tenth Annual Open Studios
Catalogue - commemorating - 10th Annual Open Studios
1994
Citicorp Community Showcases, Small Works, in conjunction
with LIC Artists Ninth Annual Open Studios
1993
Le Triophe Gallery, LIC, NY
LIC Artlofts, Eighth Annual Open Studios
1992
Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center
Citicorp Community Showcases, Court Square, LIC, NY
1991
Citicorp Community Showcases, 3 x 6 Artists, Court Square, LIC, NY
Quinn Gallery, LIC, NY
Catalogue - Long Island City Artists
1990
East Bank Artists, Henry deFord II Gallery, Citigroup,
LIC: May: juried exhibition funded by a grant from QCA; catalog
1989
Flushing Arts Council, Selected Long Island City Artists
1988
Third Long Island City Open Studios
1987
Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY
LaGuardia Community College, LIC, NY
Catalogue - Ten Artists
1986
LIC Artlofts, LIC, NY, First Anniversary Exhibition
LIC Artlofts, LIC, NY, Inaugural Exhibition
1985
First Annual Open Studios and group exhibition at
LIC ARTLofts, Inc.,
headquarters for LIC-A until 2008