Lawrence Dorsey Collection of Works by Noted Black Artists Is Shown at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus
- Galleries also to feature sculpture by Gail Goldsmith and Mayan photographs -

Brooklyn, N.Y.—Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus honors the legacy of art patron and collector Lawrence Peter Dorsey, mentor to several generations of African-American artists, with an exhibition of art works from his collection. It includes notable black artists, such as Ernest Chrichlow, Tom Feelings, Otto Neals, James Denmark, Leo Carty and Ann Tanksley.

Described as a “High Priest of the Arts," Dorsey passed away on October 7, at the age of 88. His Dorsey Art Gallery is the oldest, continuously active, black-owned art gallery in New York.

The exhibition, “The Legacy,” runs from mid-November until December 18 at the Campus’s Salena Gallery in downtown Brooklyn. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Running concurrently, in the Campus’s Humanities Building Gallery, is an exhibition of ceramic sculpture by Gail Goldsmith. Goldsmith has been creating figurative clay sculpture for more than 20 years.  Her subject matter has sources in children's toys, portrait faces and in memory.  She has exhibited extensively in New York and New England.

Also from November 12 to December 18, in the Campus’s Resnick Gallery, is an exhibition of images, “La Pervivencia de los Mayas,” by Guatemalan photographer Enrique Bauer. His lens captures the vivid colors of the Mayan forests, the warmth of the Mayan people, the richness of their traditions, the beauty of the landscape and some of the imposing monuments of ancient Mayan civilization.

Hours for the Salena and Resnick galleries are from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; the Humanities Building Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; closed weekends. Admission to the galleries is free. For more information, call Gallery Director Nancy Grove at (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. 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.