BRIC Blog
Member Spotlight: Bethany Patterson
Monday, August 28, 2017 - 10:30AMThis is Bethany Patterson’s first summer as a BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Seat-Pass Member. Read why she’s glad she joined the Friends program.
The Vijay Iyer Sextet Celebrates New Album at BRIC JazzFest
Friday, August 25, 2017 - 10:15AMKeyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer has spent years performing and recording to international praise. Today he releases the first album from The Vijay Iyer Sextet, called Far From Over, along with horn players Graham Haynes, Steve Lehman, and Mark Shim, and rhythm partners Stephan Crump and Tyshawn Sorey.
Member Spotlight: Alfonso Pastor
Monday, August 21, 2017 - 4:30PMGate-pass member Alfonso Pastor has participated in the Friends program for five years. Read on to see why he keeps coming back to the Bandshell.
BRIC Announces Its ArtFP Awardees
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 11:45AMBRIC is pleased to announce the complete list of artists awarded its new ArtFP commission. With the award, BRIC will support 15 Brooklyn and New York City-based visual artists in creating and presenting exhibitions and/or immersive installations in spaces throughout BRIC House in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.
Featured Artist: Rita Leduc
Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 2:15PMBrooklyn-based Rita Leduc is a multimedia artist who uses installation, photography, collage, and drawing to examine the impact of place. Taking a democratic approach in her selection of location, each series embodies what the artist refers to as the “sensorial fingerprint” of each space. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in such places as Trestle Gallery, Public Access Gallery, and The Skirt, all Brooklyn; Wells College, Aurora, NY; and the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Art, Nizhny Tagil, Russia, among others. She has held residencies across the country, and is currently an adjunct professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and at Ramapo College.
Laolu's Artwork At The Bandshell All Summer Long
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 2:00PMThroughout the week leading up to his performance at the Bandshell, Nigerian-born artist, musician, and activist Laolu worked on an original painting, commissioned by BRIC and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. Over the course of several days, Laolu and his team created and painted the piece, which is now on display by the BRIC Info Tent at the Bandshell. Come by to see this amazing painting at the next BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival show.
Artist-in-Residence: Katya Grokhovsky
Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 12:00PMNow in its fourth year, the BRICworkspace Visual Artist Residency program gives visual artists the space, resources, and support to take their work further and explore new directions. Katya Grokhovsky, a Ukraine-born, Brooklyn-based, multidisciplinary artist who explores themes of migration, female experience, and matriarchal lineage, is currently one of those artists-in-residence.
Hallie Ayres, who is currently assisting BRIC’s Contemporary Art program, recently visited Katya at her residency studio to learn more about her current projects.
Featured Artist: Hai-Hsin Huang
Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 5:45AMBrooklyn-based Taiwanese artist Hai-Hsin Huang works in painting and drawing to express life's underlying banalities and absurdities. Through a lens of humor, she interprets her own experiences of cross-cultural migration in an effort to unearth the ridiculousness and hedonism inherent in human interaction. Her most recent body of work, A Museum Show (2016-2017), focuses on the experience of major cultural institutions, where museum patrons are equally as compelling as works of art on display. This summer, Huang is an artist-in-residence at PILOTENKUECHE in Leipzig, Germany.
Hallie Ayres, who is currently assisting BRIC's Contemporary Art program, recently conducted an interview with the artist.
Nels Cline Performs Lovers on BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Stage
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 11:45AMFor Nels Cline, home is where the guitars are. "I have about a billion guitars here," he says of his Brooklyn home, where he's relaxing for a day in between gigs. And not just any gigs—Nels just returned from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and will soon be on a plane to Tokyo.
He will be back in Brooklyn soon enough, headlining a show at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival on August 5. Unpredictable folk revivalist Sam Amidon will open the show and Nels will perform songs from his 2016 album Lovers, an instrumental double-disc of originals and re-arranged versions of "Great American Songbook" standards. Learn more about Nels in this blog post!
BRIC Helps Bring Mural Art to DeKalb Market Hall
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 11:15AMFood options in Downtown Brooklyn just got elevated. Way elevated. The new DeKalb Market Hall, located in the City Point building in Downtown Brooklyn, boasts a high-end, artisanal food court experience, featuring over 40 vendors including iconic New York names such as Katz's Delicatessen, Ample Hills Creamery, Arepa Lady, Fletcher's BBQ, and more. Given the focus on the local food scene, highlighting a diverse group of local, Brooklyn-based visual artists became very important. BRIC is proud to have worked with City Point and Anna Castellani, the co-founder of Foragers in Brooklyn, who helped to create the new food hall, in the creation of several murals within the Market space. Here's some information about the new murals and artists involved, Tatiana Arocha, Cern, and Olalekan Jeyifous.
