Lehman College Art Gallery presents Young Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art—Feb 8-May 2.

Reception: Wed., Feb. 26, 5-8 p.m.

African American artists are enjoying a surge of influence as their work is now highly sought after by both museum curators and private collectors. Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have previously lent pieces to museums and welcomed visitors in into their home for private tours, but this is the first time this traveling collection, of artists such as Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, has been presented as a stand-alone exhibition.