About

Marina Garde and Dolly Bross Geary, Co-Chairs

Dr. Fernando Delgado, President, Lehman College

Sara Bamber

David Bicks

Virginia Cupiola

Susan Ebersole

Geraldine Hayes

Yolanda F. Johnson

Red Grooms

Elisabeth Lorin

Dr. Cecilia Mandrile

Dannielle Tegeder

Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Charina Foundation

Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation

Special funds from the Community Foundation of Utah at the request of the

Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation

Fidelity Charitable

Medora Bross Geary and John Geary Family Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation

Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation

Robert Lehman Foundation

The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation

New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund

Programming supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council

Lehman College Art Gallery is grateful for the support of New York City Council members Eric Dinowitz and Kevin Riley

New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

Founding director Nina Sundell established Lehman College Art Gallery (LCAG) in 1984 as an art center to play a significant role in the cultural life of the Bronx.  Today, the Gallery reaches out to the Bronx as well as the greater New York area, offering to Lehman students and to the public the work of contemporary artists, and an understanding of the social and cultural context of the art of our time.  Within the setting of a building originally designed by the renowned architect Marcel Breuer, completed in 1960, visitors are treated to informative and visually exciting contemporary art exhibitions, public programming, and art education programs.

Architect Marcel Breuer’s first buildings in New York City were completed in 1960 on the western edge of Hunter College’s uptown campus (today, Lehman College).  In dramatic contrast to the college’s original 1930s neo-Gothic structures, the current Fine Arts Building, which houses the Gallery, was originally the College’s library. Breuer wrapped the building’s shoebox shape in a curtain wall of glass, flooding the rooms with light and he designed the interior space to be unobstructed, except for two rows of massive columns.  From their unusual capitals, spreading out and up, are broad inverted umbrellas or calyxes, which joined edges and braced one another to form the Gallery’s remarkable undulating ceiling.  Since each umbrella is formed from plates curved in the self-supporting shape of the “hyperbolic paraboloid,” Breuer was able to mold them of extremely light, thin-shelled reinforced concrete, using only six columns to support the 160 by 180-foot ceiling.