BRIC ARTIST ALUMNI NEWS: May – July 2018

These past BRIC Media Arts Fellowship recipients and BRICworkspace Artists-in-Residence have work on view in exhibitions across New York City and around the world. Check out these exhibitions if you are able.

IN NEW YORK CITY:

CHLOE BASS (2018 Media Arts Fellow)

• The Knockdown Center, NYC, April 21- June 17, 2018

The Book of Everyday Instruction, an exploration of one-on-one social interaction. It includes eight major projects by Bass, created from 2015 to 2018.

SARAH E. BROOK (2018 Media Arts Fellow)

• Re: Art Show, NYC, May 26-June 17, 2018

Re: Art Show (21) curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell featuring fifty-four artists in the Brooklyn space.

LUBA DROZD (2015 Media Arts Fellow)

• Re: Art Show, NYC, May 26 - June 17, 2018

Re: Art Show (21) curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell featuring fifty-four artists in the Brooklyn space.

  MACON REED (Spring 2018 BRICworkspace Artist-in-Residence)

• Teachers College at Columbia University, NYC from April 1 - May 31, 2018.

Unleashing is an exhibition that explores the thought of philosopher Maxine Greene.

• Kaplan Gallery, NYC, from May 23 - July 1, 2018

Power Forward, A Non-Zero Sum Game: Sports, Art, and the Moving Image Series is an exhibition exploring the political aspects of sports.

KEISHA SCARVILLE (Spring 2018 BRICworkspace Artist-in-Residence)

• Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC from April 20 - May 20, 2018

Elegy: Selections from Mama’s Clothes is a solo exhibition featuring photographs of Scarville wearing her mother’s clothing, exploring themes such as loss and grief.

• Baxter St. at The Camera Club of New York, NYC, from June 7 - July 7, 2018

The Placelessness of Echoes is a solo exhibition that features work created during their 2017 residency at Baxter St.

• Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, from June 2 - June 30, 2018

Carry Out: New Voices From the Global African Diaspora curated by Kalia Brooks with funding through Africa’s Out.

KATHERINE TOUKHY (Summer 2017 BRICworkspace Artist-in-Residence)

• Old Stone House, Brooklyn, from April 19 - June 24, 2018

Home Front exhibits the work of six artists that explore acts of resilience by women in times of social and political upheaval.

OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY:

LAYLAH AMATULLAH BARRAYN (2015 Media Arts Fellow)

• The Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, from March 28 - July 15, 2018

Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion, and Resistance features photographs focusing on the Sufi Muslim order of Baye Fall, Senegal.

JEMILA MACEWAN (2018 Media Arts Fellow)

• Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland from May 26 - June 3, 2018

Birds of Passage 1998-2018 - Assembly is an exhibition that focuses on prior artists-in-residence at Skaftfell.

KEISHA SCARVILLE (2018 BRIC Residency)

• The Institute of Contemporary Art: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Ongoing exhibition through August 12, 2018.

The Last Place They Thought Of curated by Daniella Rose King, this exhibition explores how geographical, ideological and spatial paradigms determine and reproduce uneven social relations.

JAKOB KUDSK STEENSEN (Summer 2016 BRICworkspace Artist-In-Residence)

• Click Festival 2018, Helsingør, Denmark from May 19-20, 2018

Aquaphobia is a virtual reality project that is a one-to-one copy of the Louis Valentino Jr. Park and Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This virtual piece aims to explore our relationship with water in an area that will be greatly impacted by climate change.

• Zabludowicz Collection 360 Space, London, UK, from May 3 - June 3, 2018

Presenting their Aquaphobia, the virtual reality project that explores a one-to-one copy of the Louis Valentino Jr. Park and Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

TAHIR CARL KARMALI (Summer 2016 BRICworkspace Artist-in-Residence)

• The Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, from February 3, 2018 to June 14, 2020.​​​​​​​

Immigrant Artists and the American West is an exploration of how art relates and responds to personal and political issues regarding migration.

COMPILED BY NICOLE HALLEY & ERIN McDONALD