BRIC - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for BRIC. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Suné Woods “Aragonite Stars”
A five-channel video installation by Suné Woods, this immersive constellation utilizes scenes of waterscapes to speak about such broad concepts as existence, intimacy, healing, and aquatic ecology, viewed...More »
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Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira “The mountain I am, Urku ñuka kani” and Athena LaTocha “In the Wake of…”
BRIC Contemporary Art invites you to the opening of Athena LaTocha: In the Wake of… and Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira: The mountain I am, Urku ñuka kani. Working on the floor of an immense studio, Athena...More »
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“Present Bodies: Papermaking” Exhibition
BRIC in partnership with Dieu Donné presents Present Bodies: Papermaking at Dieu Donné, a group exhibition organized by BRIC Curator, Jenny Gerow. The exhibition will present the work of eight Brooklyn-based...More »
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“BRIC Biennial: Volume III, South Brooklyn Edition” Exhibition
Curated By Elizabeth Ferrer & Jenny Gerow During this time of political turmoil, the 2019 BRIC Biennial offers a look at how artists envision “The Impossible Possible.” Rather than reflecting our...More »
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Penelope Umbrico “Monument”
Penelope Umbrico’s new exhibition, MONUMENT, explores the monolithic state of current technologies in relation to their obsolescence. Starting with the idea that all technologies are “black boxes” to most...More »
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Jon Henry “Stranger Fruit”
In response to the endemic murder of African-American men at the hands of authorities, Jon Henry’s photographs turn to the mothers of the communities, to the women who must endure the senseless loss and...More »
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Mary Mattingly Exhibition
CURATED BY: JENNY GEROW Brooklyn-based artist Mary Mattingly creates photographs, sculpture, and large-scale public art projects addressing climate change by drawing connections between the social...More »
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Juanli Carrión “Memelismos - Memories from the Other Side”
CURATED BY: Jenny Gerow Memelismos is a collaborative, community-specific project by artist Juanli Carrión that uses sculpture to address popular memory and personal meanings embedded in everyday objects....More »
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“Bronx Now” Exhibition
BRONX NOW explores the community of Bronx-based artists creating remarkable work outside of traditional spheres. Curated by Laura James and Eileen Walsh, who work under the name BXNYCreative, BRONX NOW...More »
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“Alchemy” Exhibition
Alchemy is a group exhibition of work by seven Brooklyn-based artists dedicated to using unconventional materials to create visually layered statements about the body, gender, race, the environment, the...More »
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Sophia Narrett “Certain Magic”
BRIC presents a solo exhibition of Sophia Narrett in the Project Room of BRIC House. Sophia Narrett creates complex embroideries that express the power of intimacy and desire in the digital age. By casting...More »
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“Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas” Exhibition
CURATED BY: Abigail Lapin Dardashti, Franco-Dominican Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and specialist in postwar Latin American art. Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic,...More »
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“Brooklyn Photographs” Exhibition
Curated by BRIC’s Elizabeth Ferrer, the show features work by Yolanda Andrade, Stefanie Apple, Nelson Bakerman, Leigh Davis, Russell Frederick, Max Kozloff, George Malave, Meryl Meisler, Patrick D. Pagnano,...More »
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Sam Messer Exhibition
BRIDGES is a solo exhibition of work by noted Brooklyn-based artist Sam Messer. The exhibition reveals the breadth of Messer’s body of work and includes large-scale paintings of New York City’s iconic...More »
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“Public Access/Open Networks” Exhibition
In the late 1960s, visual artists experimenting with the new medium of video saw the potential of public access television to act as an open and uncensored platform for the creation and dissemination of...More »
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“Cafe Mural: Olalekan Jeyifous” Exhibition
A “high-fidelity” interpretation of the De Stijl art movement’s iconic combination of geometric forms and primary colors, Olalekan Jeyifous’s café installation is palpably playful. With bright, elementary...More »
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Exhibition
In Not Going Anywhere, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh brings street art indoors with wheatpasted portraits of American artists and activists. Directly challenging the xenophobic and misogynistic rhetoric now dominating...More »
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“Look up here, I’m in heaven” Exhibition
Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Vice President, Contemporary Art, and Jenny Gerow, Assistant Curator Look up here, I’m in heaven is a group exhibition of unconventional portraits featuring paintings,...More »
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“Whisper Or Shout: Artists in the Social Sphere” Exhibition
Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer Whisper Or Shout features the work of nine artists who engage with a range of critical contemporary social and political issues. Each of the artists will bring different...More »
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Juan Sánchez “¿What’s The Meaning of This?”
Curated by Elizabeth FerrerMore »
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“Handmade Abstract” Exhibition
Co-curated by Elizabeth Ferrer and Jenny Gerow Handmade Abstract will bring together 13 emerging and mid-career artists who are dedicated to the visual language of abstraction and whose work emphasizes...More »
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“OPEN (C)ALL: THE ARTIST’S STUDIO” Exhibition
OPEN (C)ALL: The Artist’s Studio will be presented in the Gallery of BRIC House and is open to all members of BRIC’s online Contemporary Artist Registry or to those artists who join the BRIC Artist Registry...More »
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“The BRIC Biennial: Volume I, Downtown Edition”
In fall 2014 BRIC will launch a major new initiative, the BRIC Biennial. These exhibitions will present the work of emerging and mid-career visual artists working across artistic media, with each edition...More »
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“Transcommunality” Exhibition
BRIC presents Transcommunality: Laura Anderson Barbata, Collaboration Beyond Borders, an exhibition that documents the work of Mexican-born, New York-based artist Laura Anderson Barbata; focusing on the...More »
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“The air we swim in” Exhibition
BRIC presents The air we swim in, its first Emerging Curator exhibition to be presented in BRIC House. On view in the Project Room of BRIC House, the exhibition is curated by Kelly Schroer, the 2014 recipient...More »
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“#InstaSelfieParadise: The 26th Annual Student Art and Media Education” Exhibition
BRIC’s Annual Student Exhibition showcases the work completed in BRIC’s public school residencies in which professional artist teachers are sent directly into the classroom, where they use visual art ...More »
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“Expanded Practice: A Survey of Work by BRIC’s Teaching Artists” Exhibition
During The 26th Annual Student Exhibition, BRIC will also highlight the work of its Teaching Artists in the Project Room as well as other parts of the main floor of BRIC House. The exhibition is meant...More »
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“Small Solos” Exhibition
Accompanying and complimenting The 26th Annual Student Exhibition will be small solo shows by artists Vandana Jain and Melissa Godoy Nieto, set up on the outside walls of the gallery at BRIC House. These...More »
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“The Art Into Music” Exhibition
The Art Into Music exhibition is devoted to artists whose work is inspired by music, a fitting theme given Brooklyn’s international prominence as a magnet for both visual artists and musicians. The exhibition...More »
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“Former Models: An Exhibition”
Former Models: An Exhibition is a group show in the gallery of BRIC House that, under the direction of David Levine, was conceived as both an independent exhibition and as a scenic element for WOW, an...More »
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“Housewarming: Notions of Home from the Center of the Universe” Exhibition
This inaugural exhibition at BRIC House will act as a celebratory “housewarming” of the new gallery, as well as an exploration of notions of home from broad vantage points. The exhibition will feature...More »
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Nyeema Morgan "Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use To Make"
BRIC Arts presents an installation of Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use To Make, a series of 47 text-based digital drawings by interdisciplinary Brooklyn artist Nyeema Morgan. The drawings,...More »
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"Cultural Fluency: Engagements with Contemporary Brooklyn" Exhibition
BRIC Arts presents Cultural Fluency: Engagements with Contemporary Brooklyn, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery that brings together six artists whose creative engagements with the city embody its culture....More »
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En Foco "New Works/Crossing Boundaries"
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents an exhibition in collaboration with En Foco, the Bronx-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to nurturing and supporting photographers of diverse cultures. Curated...More »
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Public Program: Lecture by Don Gregorio Antón
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents a lecture in conjunction with the En Foco: New Works/Crossing Boundaries exhibition. Revered Chicano photographer Don Gregorio Antón who is currently a professor of photography...More »
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"On Purpose: Art & Design in Brooklyn, 2012" Exhibition
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn announces the second show of their 2012-13 exhibition season, On Purpose: Art & Design in Brooklyn, 2012. Building upon BRIC’s rich history of presenting design-focused exhibitions,...More »
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"8 Artists Making Sculpture" Exhibition
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents 8 Artists Making Sculpture: The 5th Annual Registry Exhibition, the first show of the 2012-13 contemporary art exhibition season. The exhibition will focus on artists...More »
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"I Am You <--> You Are Me" The 24th Annual BRIC Contemporary Art Student Exhibition
I Am You <--> You Are Me features artwork made by Brooklyn public school students, pre-K through high school, participating in BRIC’s in-school contemporary art residency program. The exhibition,...More »
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"Mystics" Exhibition
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents Mystics: A Blessed Rage for Order, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery that brings together the work of eight artists whose work is deeply process oriented and can...More »
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"So to Speak" Exhibition
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents So to Speak, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery. Each work in the exhibition weighs the difference between these two forms of expression, reflecting on the faults,...More »
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"Figured" Exhibition
The exhibition Figured explores how artists undertake representation of the figure without using a physical form. Deliberately moving beyond the meaning of direct portraiture, the exhibition focuses on...More »
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"The Bricoleurs" Exhibition
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...More »
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"The (S) Files: 2011" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-11-10 - 2012-01-07
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn and El Museo del Barrio present the final installment of The (S) Files: 2011 at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton St. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad Fombella, and Elvis...More »
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"30: A Brooklyn Salon Celebrating Thirty Years of Contemporary Art" Exhibition
30: A Brooklyn Salon has been organized to celebrate BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s status as Brooklyn’s oldest continuously operating contemporary art space and to offer a look back at the wealth of artists who...More »
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"INvent/ONsite, 23rd Annual BRIC Contemporary Art Education" Exhibition
This annual exhibition presents student work created over the course of the academic year under the auspices of BRIC Contemporary Art Education’s in-school residency program. Art on view will reflect widely...More »
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"Chat Room" Exhibition
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents "Chat Room", a group exhibition curated by Krista Saunders. Saunders is the spring 2011 recipient of the Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellowship, a program that fosters emerging...More »
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"Water Water Every Where" Exhibition
"Brooklyn, NY – BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents Water Water Every Where", a group exhibition examining water’s ubiquity – its presence in our everyday life, in geopolitical reality, and in transcendent...More »
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"Neo-nomads: What travels with you?" Exhibition
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn opens 2011 with Neo-nomads: What travels with you?, a group exhibition that poses a question addressing the transient nature of contemporary life in the 21st century: What does...More »
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"Artist & Artifact: Re|visioning Brooklyn's Past" Discussion
This discussion will feature the work of four artists in Artist & Artifact: Re|visioning Brooklyn's Past. The panel discussion and gallery talk will take place at BRIC Rotunda Gallery and Brooklyn...More »
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"Artist and Artifact: Re|Visioning Brooklyn's Past" Exhibition
Artist and Artifact: Re|Visioning Brooklyn's Past explores the relationship between Brooklyn's contemporary cultural heritage with its historical roots. Seven artists, two writers, and one musician were...More »
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"Real Nonfiction" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-09-15 - 2010-10-23
The 3rd Annual Artists from the Registry Exhibition Curated by Baseera Khan & Jon Lutz Real Nonfiction brings together work by damali abrams, Becca Albee, Alisa Baremboym, Ben Coonley & Dr....More »
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"INvent/ONsite" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-05-20 - 2010-06-12
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents INvent/Onsite: The 22nd Annual BRIC Contemporary Art Education Exhibition of student artwork. The exhibition is curated by Hawley Hussey, BRIC’s Director of Contemporary...More »
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"A Wild Gander" Exhibition
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents A Wild Gander: Artists from the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, a group exhibition curated by Baseera Khan , BRIC’s Assistant Curator for Contemporary Art. The...More »
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"the no place" Exhibition
the no place features the work of six contemporary artists who conjure utopian and dystopian environments in distinct ways to explore such issues as geo-political conflict, human rights, urban development,...More »
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"Accented" Exhibition
With people, culture and information circulating globally at accelerating rates, it might be said, that our day-to-day interactions are increasingly accented. The accent is the surplus of such cross-cultural...More »
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"Revelatory Tension: New Assertions on Divine Form" Exhibition
Revelatory Tension: New Assertions on Divine Form is a proposition for a theological aesthetic in contemporary art. The exhibition highlights the work of six artists who work with a variety of media to...More »
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"Status Report" Exhibition
Status Report presents work by contemporary Mexican and Latino artists, highlighting the varied ways that artists have examined the themes of immigration, the U. S./Mexican border, and work. Exhibiting...More »
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"Human Craters" Exhibition
An oblique exploration of the human figure, the works in Human Craters hint at the human form by placing it at the edge of the frame, removing its details, or presenting only its imprints. Approaching...More »
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"A New Deal: Art and Currency" Exhibiton
A New Deal, Art and Currency highlights relationships between American presidents and the economy, while observing how these relationships affect art-making. This exhibition takes its name from the social...More »
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"In/Formation" Exhibition
The artists in In/Formation employ widely varying media and representational approaches to examine the radically changing nature of information systems and vehicles in the digital era. Leslie Alfin, Louisa...More »
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"A Wrinkle in Time" Exhibition
Madeline L’Engle explained her writing philosophy: “If I have something that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.” In her much contested and beloved 1962...More »
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"Grotesque Histories" Exhibition
Grotesque Histories presents the work of three artists — Enrique Chagoya, Aaron Johnson, and Miguel Luciano — who deploy iconographies based in history, both ancient and recent, to address the current...More »
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"Kids Day" Event
Don’t miss KidsDay, a day-long celebration for artists of all ages. Held on the Brooklyn-Queens Day school holiday, KidsDay features free events throughout Brooklyn Heights, presented by BRIC Rotunda Gallery,...More »
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"The 16th Annual KidsArt" Exhibition
16th Annual KidsArt Exhibition is a celebration of art created by New York City students participating in the Gallery’s education programs during the 2007-2008 school year. Curated by Education Director...More »
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"Ethnographies of the Future" Video Screening
Sara Reisman curates a screening of related film and video works by Pedro Barateiro, Lene Berg, Nao Bustamante, Katia Kameli, Grace Ndiritu, Sriwhana Spong, and other artists.More »
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"Ethnographies of the Future" Exhibition
Ethnographies of the Future takes into account the vast geographies impacted by colonial rule by bringing together artists whose works present a critical relationship to post-colonial identity politics....More »