LIC-A/Long Island City Artists, Inc., presents its SPRING SHOWCASE of the work of 43 of its artist-members from April 12 – May 11, 2017 at the Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46th Ave. Long Island City, NY. Coinciding with the LIC FLEA MARKET’s weekend openings, the work will be on view Saturdays and Sundays from 12-5 pm. Visitors can also attend on Thursday evenings between 6:30-9 pm when LIC-A’s popular Life Drawing Workshop is held. Fee for the Workshop is $10. The SPRING SHOWCASE is open to the public for free. Artists will be present to talk to visitors and to give tours of the exhibition.

Opening reception for Spring Showcase will be held Wednesday, April 12, from 6-9 pm. There will be refreshments and live music by the Gimagua Brothers, Guillermo and Gabriel Ariza, Queens residents who play rumba, flamenco, Cuban, and South American folk style music on guitar.

About the Plaxall Gallery: The new Plaxall Gallery, LIC-A’s present home location in Long Island City, has been open since Fall 2016, presenting exhibitions, performances and new play readings, as well as Drawing workshops. There is a series of consecutive exhibitions planned through September 2017 which includes a May exhibition coinciding with the LIC ARTS OPEN, a summer invitational, EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER, and a juried exhibition in August, MAKING CONNECTIONS, funded in part by an Access Grant through the Queens Council on the Arts.

43 ARTIST EXHIBITION WORKS:

Eduardo Anievas, Amanda Barker, Lynn Berg,Indrajeet Chandrachud, Jason Cina, Ann Cofta, Marilee Cooper, Kathleen Cornell-Berman, Carol Crawford, Adrian DiMetriou, Jaime Fournier, Eric Friedmann, Estsud Fungcap, Nancy Gesimondo, Michelle Goguen, Sandra Gorman, Raul Gracia, Jean-Marie Guyaux, Brett Harvey, Paula Heisen, Theresa Kennedy, Hilma Krla, Jiyoun Lee-Lodge, Gilly Lugo. Nancy Macina, Kristen Martin, Miwa Neishi, Steven Palermo, Alexander Puz, Linda Rufo, Theo Sahos, Lori Sanford-Ross, Elinore Schnurr, Jacqueline Sferra-Rada, Helaine Soller, Ellen Stedfeld, Clare Stokolosa, Preston Trombly, Yelena Tylkina, Arthur Volper, Sandra Vucicevic, Marji C. Wollin, Siu Wong Camac