Contemporary Art Exhibition Schedule

2012-13

Season overview:The final season of exhibitions at BRIC Rotunda Gallery will focus on foundational areas of the visual arts: – Sculpture– Design– Photography– Painting– Arts education

Each year, BRIC presents an exhibition of promising, emerging artists selected exclusively from its online Contemporary Artist Registry. This, the fifth edition of the Registry show will focus on artists pursuing a wide array of three-dimensional formats. Working with abstraction, these artists create forms that act to transform and activate the physical space around them.

September 12 – October 20, 2012

8 Artists Making Sculpture, The 5th Annual From the Registry exhibition

Guest curated by Jamie Sterns

Jamie FeltonAbove:

Four, 2012Plaster, acrylic, plastic98 x 26 x 18 in.

Right:

Your Mother’s Shoes, 2012Plaster, acrylic, satin, and faux leather shoes 18 x 18 x 156 in.

Carolyn SalasStanding Sculpture, 2012Aqua resin, fiberglass, plaster, and pigment72 x 76 x 4 in.

Jong OhBetween Two Doors (Element 7), 2012Metal and nail1/8 x 17 x 9 in.

November 7 – December 15, 2012 On Purpose: Art & Design in Brooklyn, 2012

Guest curated by Risa Shoup

On Purpose will feature work from Brooklyn-based designers and artists working in all disciplines whose projects address the environmental challenges of contemporary urban living. The work in the exhibition will combine a focus on sustainability with a desire for beauty in our social, domestic, and professional spaces.

Justin Stewart System of Knowing 05, 2009Dimensions variable

One in a series of installations involving design systems and sculptures made from zip ties. The sculptures are 3D representations of the drawings; the drawings are 2D representations of the sculptures.

596 Acres was organized by a group of activists, designers, and lawyers. Working with public data, they have catalogued all of Brooklyn’s publicly owned green space. They work with citizens and organizations to license use of these spaces for such purposes as community gardens, event spaces, and play spaces.

FreelandBuckSlipstream, 2011

A study in material and technique by Brooklyn-based architectural firm FreelandBuck. Inspired by the illustrations of artist Lebbeaus Woods, Slipstream explores the use of triangulated construction to make curved surfaces. The firm’s experiments with materials and techniques allow low-cost materials to be used in innovative architectural forms.

January 9 –February 23, 2013

En Foco: New Works/Crossing Boundaries (working title)

Curated by Elizabeth FerrerDirector of Contemporary ArtIn collaboration with En Foco

En Foco, dedicated to cultural diversity in photography, sponsors an annual New Works program. The award has stimulated the creation of work that moves beyond the boundaries of traditional and even unconventional forms of the photographic medium. This exhibit will include work by some 10 photographers demonstrating the significance of this award in extending their artistic practice.

Don AntonFrom the series The Arc of MemoryPhotographed printed on copper plate and reliquary

Jaishri AbichandaniWe Were Making History, 2012Leather whips, wire, nails, and paint11 x 7 ft.

The artist drew from photos posted on Facebook of women protestors in Tahrir Square, Cairo.

Collette FuFort MifflinPop-up book made from archival pigment inks, mounted onto card stock, and bound in newspapers and paper, 36 x 53 in.

Wendel WhiteManifest seriesColor photographs 22 x 27 ½ in, each photograph

Objects are from the Historical Society, Eatonville, MD. These objects reflect the history of local residents including Zora Neale Hurston.

January 10 – February 23, 2013

INTER. Act, Reci Procity in the Media2012/13 Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Exhibition

Guest curated by Changhak Choi

Through the ubiquitous spread of personal media devices and social media systems, the daily interactions between people, their physical environments, and technology are expanding and changing. INTER. Act will explore these changes through work by four artists, all of whom allow the audience a way to reflect upon the new media-driven world we increasingly inhabit.

Dongik Shin and Manuela Donoso Wallight, 2011Human conductive lighting experience

Hwayong JungDigital Threads, 2009Interactive installation

March 13 – April 20, 2013

Elastic Notion:Contemporary Abstract and Representational Painting

Curated by Christian FullerAssociate Director of Contemporary Art

A painting exhibition on the relationships between abstraction and representation, and the sometimes blurred area between the two. Artists will be paired together, one abstract and the other representational, through comparisons of their work in composition, technique, palette, and materiality.

Angela DufresneRuysdael Constabily, 2011Oil on canvas28 x 36 in.

Vincent ContarinoAltar, 2011Acrylic on canvas20 x18 in.

Nicole EisenmenGuy with Yellow Background, 2009Oil on canvas18 x 14 in.

Ron GorchovOil on canvas

Maya HayukElephant, 2010Acrylic on canvas12 x 16 in.

Nora Jane SladePatina of Love, 2009Oil on canvas48 x 58 in.

March 14 – April 20, 2013

Cultural Fluency2012/13 Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Exhibition

Guest curated by Erin Gleason

This exhibition focuses on the “place” of present-day New York; the city as a built form that houses public and personal activities. Five Brooklyn-based artists, all originally from other cities and countries, will dissect the social role of the spaces that they have come to inhabit. These works will go beyond depictions of the city and society, to altering places through artistic intervention, presence, and observations.

Martin McCormackThe Great Map ProjectMaps collected from across New York five boroughs 6 x 8 ft.

Mark ReigelmanStair Squares, 2007The stairs were installed on the front steps of Brooklyn’s Borough Hall in the summer of 2007.

Our final show at BRIC Rotunda Gallery prior to relocating to BRIC House, our organization’s permanent, expanded facility, will be the 25th annual Contemporary Art Student Exhibition. We will celebrate 25 years of student art and shows!