NYAB Event - "Artist & Artifact: Re|visioning Brooklyn's Past" Discussion

"Artist & Artifact: Re|visioning Brooklyn's Past" Discussion

BRIC

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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 Historical Society.

Meredith Bergmann is a New York-based poet and sculptor who frequently works in bronze and marble to create powerful figurative works of monumental scale. Bergman’s evocative public sculpture is exemplified by her Boston Women’s Memorial in Boston and her Memorial to Countee Cullen, now permanently installed in Harlem in the Countee Cullen branch of the New York Public Library.

Stanley Greenberg is a photographer known for his stunning black-and-white shots of infrastructure and architecture including the depths of New York City’s water system. With a knack for gaining access to the hidden guts of the city, Greenberg has brought fascinating tunnels and other hidden structures to light for the rest of us. Greenberg’s photographs are included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Nora Herting‘s staged studio portraits call into question what constitutes a portrait and ironically play with the manner that people are represented by traditional posed portraiture, brilliantly combining humor and tradition. Brooklyn-based Herting will examine the multitude of historical portraits in the Brooklyn Historical Society’s collection to further examine the aesthetics and social constructs of the practice of commercial portraiture.

Andrés Vera Martínez is a comic book artist, writer, and illustrator residing in Brooklyn who completed the Masters of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in 2007. Vera Martinez’s poignant illustrations have appeared in the Washington Post and the New York Times; he also worked on the animation in the 2006 feature film A Scanner Darkly.