Brooklyn, N.Y. – Six artists working within the framework of the simplest of art forms — drawing — provide a view of their interior world at an exhibition at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Presented by the Campus’s Art Department, the drawing exhibition, titled "Sleight of Hand," will take place from April 1 to April 30 in the Campus’s Salena Gallery. An opening reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, April 3, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

"Drawing has generated a lot of interest in recent years among artists and the public because it is more immediate, in contrast to art that relies on technology," said artist Mitchell Marco, who organized the exhibit, "People have always liked drawings — they are handmade and intimate."

In a preface to the exhibition brochure, critic Nick Muellner says, "Drawing is not only a traditionally transitional form — a way-station between idea and accomplished artwork — it is also a medium of escape."

The artists in the exhibition deploy the medium’s inherent transitional qualities through a range of styles, scales and subjects. Marco’s works recall fashion sketches and commercial illustrations. Rosie Cutler’s compositions depict rooftop utilitarian architecture. Angela Dufresne renders celebrities as mythical ancestors. Joy Feasley draws images of adolescent girls. Elizabeth Kley makes repeated renderings of Salvador Dali, and Jihyun Yu visualizes unidentifiable creatures.

In another exhibition, titled "March of the Living 2000: Auschwitz to Birkenau," professor Jeff Lambert will display his photographs of the Holocaust Memorial in the Campus’s Health Sciences Gallery, from April 21 to May 2. The exhibit is based on his experience in Poland when he accompanied students and Holocaust survivors to concentration camps there.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday,11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on the exhibit, call (718) 488-1198.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.