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#StopAsianHate
Friday, March 19, 2021 - 5:30PMThe recent surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is rooted in the systemic normalization of nationalism and xenophobia that seeks to destroy our vision of a better world. At BRIC, we celebrate our beloved community of artists, creators, teachers, neighbors and friends. We believe we are enriched by the diversity of this community and will raise our voice against those that believe otherwise.
BRIC House Rules for COVID-19 Safety
Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 11:30AMIf you're considering visiting BRIC during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we ask that you review the following rules and guidelines to ensure the safety of our staff and other visitors. BRIC Media Center, Cafe, and Stoop remain closed to the public at this time.
Artist Opportunities: January 2021
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 12:00PMA curated selection of open calls, residencies, and exhibition opportunities for visual artists.
Artist Interview: Caitlin Cherry
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMCommon thematic concerns of Caitlin Cherry's work orbit around female subjectivity and the Black woman’s experience. “Not everyday women,” Cherry views her subjects through the lens of technology where they become beautifully superhuman, glossy, misunderstood, and disfigured.
Artist Interview: Zachary Fabri
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMZachary Fabri works across the mediums of sculpture, video, and performance. Inspired by both the visceral and material world, his video and performance work captures his body engaging with a site’s built environment, Black identities, and his Brooklyn neighborhood.
Artist Interview: Christophe Roberts
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMChristophe Roberts is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting, design, and installation work. His practice explores complex masculinities, rebel origin myths, and the commodification of identity through meditations on mass culture iconography.
Artist Interview: Joiri Minaya
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMWorking across the mediums of painting, sculpture, performance, and photography, Joiri Minaya navigates landscapes between the global north and south, to engage with themes around the body, domesticity, and gender roles into a site of unlearning and decolonizing larger institutional systems.
Artist Interview: Michelle Segre
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMWith a career that spans over three decades, Michelle Segre is known largely for an improvisational form of sculpture. Her works, often created with such materials as yarn, paint, metal, and thread, represent a meeting of both accident and intent.
Artist Interview: Kambui Olujimi
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMKambui Olujimi is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His work has included large-scale sculpture, painting, installation, photography, video, and performance. Olujimi is equally influenced by and often combines such abstract, scientific realms as cosmology, multiverses, physics, and quantum forces with the intimacy of mundane objects like vernacular photographs and hand-me down furniture.
Artist Interview: Erwin Redl
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMErwin Redl creates outdoor public installations through the repetition of light, movement, and color. His work is inspired by his upbringing in the Austrian countryside as well by such pioneering land artists of the American West as Walter De Maria and Nancy Holt, Redl is renewing and updating the land art tradition of transforming urban landscapes into works of art.
