BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn Presents The Bricoleurs, the 4th Annual Artists from the Registry Show
December 15, 2011 - Colleen J. Ross
BROOKLYN, NY – BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents The Bricoleurs, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery featuring a range of Brooklyn artists who embrace the practice of bricolage and construct visual works from discrepant elements, creating new forms and imagery. Curated by Christian Fuller and Risa Shoup, the exhibition opens Wednesday, January 25 at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton St, and will be on view through March 3, 2012. Admission to the gallery is free.
The opening reception is Wednesday, January 25 from 7 to 9 p.m.
All artists in the show were selected from BRIC’s Contemporary Artists Registry, the oldest registry of visual artists in Brooklyn with more than 16,000 digital submissions from 800 artists living or working in the borough. Founded in 1983, the Registry is open to artists living or working in Brooklyn; visit registry.bricartsmedia.org to view a range of artists’ work.
Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of sometimes seemingly disparate things; a person who engages in bricolage is called a bricoleur. The range of work in this show includes: video, painting, collage, assemblage, sculpture and digital printing.
According to the curators: “We have chosen artists for the exhibition who pull together styles and materials that might otherwise appear disparate and unattractive save for the artist’s ability to combine them into one cogent, integral whole… With The Bricoleurs, we turn our analytical gaze more to the practice of creating bricolage less than the product, the bricolage itself.”
Artists featured in the exhibition are: Man Bartlett, Andrea Burgay, Danielle Durchslag, Alana Fitzgerald, Joseph Gillette, Max Greis, Cooper Holoweski, MaryKate Maher, Christian Maychack and Troy Michie. Images from the exhibition are viewable at bricartsmedia.org
Special Program: Bricolage LIVE, Saturday, March 3, 8 – 10 p.m.
BRIC will host a closing reception for The Bricoleurs featuring artists from the exhibition. Cooper Holoweski will perform a live score to his animation piece, Nebuchanezzer's Dream, with the accompaniment of his brother Doc Holoweski, and Joseph Gillette performing his ongoing “Neo Media So-Real-ism” project, PARTY FOOD. This event is free to the public; light refreshments will be served.
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