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BRIC Rotunda Gallery 2008 Live & Silent Auction
The auction will be held at Steiner Studios during BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s annual Gala on Tuesday, October 14. An auction preview of all artwork will be held for Gala guests at BRIC Rotunda Gallery on Tuesday, October 7. All proceeds from the auction benefit BRIC Rotunda programs in the 2008–2009 season.
AUCTION: Tuesday, October 14
PREVIEW: Tuesday, October 7
To set up an absentee bid contact Johanna, 718-875-4047 x11.
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Auction Artists
All works courtesy of the artist unless otherwise listed. (S) = Silent Auction | (L) = Live Auction.
CAMMI CLIMACO (L)
Untitled, Clothes Piles Series, 2005, Gouache on paper, 11 x 15 in.
Brooklyn-based Cammi Climaco works in sculpture, painting, drawing, and video. She received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1998 and has gone on to show at such venues as Silo, GARDENfresh, and the Cranbrook Art Museum. She describes her work as “a collection of the hopeful and miserable possibilites,” and “idealism tempered with escapism.” Climaco exhibited at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in the fall 2007 Exposure exhibition.
MELANIE FISCHER (S)
Growth, 2007, Color photograph, 16 x 20 in.
The artist notes that as a society, we put on our headphones and walk around in our own personal pleasure pods; we lose ourselves in the Internet and with virtual experiences. “My artwork responds to this phenomenon, she states, “by creating my own natural retreats that create ambiguity between what is real and what is fantasy. I make installations that are derived from nature, generally made from embroidered fabric sewn over frames of wire and piping. I use materials that would not exist without technology such as astro turf and printed fabrics to expresses feelings of childhood, a time when the world is playful, exciting, and yet scary. By then photographing these installations, I am returning them back to the virtual world, asking my viewers to question what is genuine. Fischer has exhibited at such galleries as Metaphor and Gallery 718 in Brooklyn, and New York Studio Gallery in Manhattan. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in 2000 from Brooklyn College.
GERMáN HERRERA (L)
Interface Options, 2006, Pigment print, 16 x 20 in.
Trained as a photographer and musician, Herrera creates digital photomontages that reflect subconscious thought, memory, and spiritual philosophies. Many photographers working with constructed imagery or photomontage do so with a keen sense of intentionality, as a means of conveying a specific statement or idea. Herrera, in contrast, relies greatly on intuition and emotion, more interested in the possibility of locating meaning outside the arenas or pure intellect and reason. Born in Mexico, Herrera is now based in the Bay Area. He was the recipient of an Artist Residency at the de Young Museum, San Francisco. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions at such major institutions as the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; the Chicago Cultural Center, and the De Young Museum, San Francisco.
AARON JOHNSON (L)
Black Stars Supermodel, 2007, Ink, acrylic, and china marker on paper, 24 x 19 in. Courtesy of the artist and Stux Gallery, New York.
Brooklyn-based Aaron Johnson incisively critiques contemporary American society, from politics to religion, by applying a filter of eastern mysticism to expose garish portrayals of legendary western icons. Combining gruesome and psychedelic forms, Johnson’s innovative technique of reversed painting, construction debris netting, and thickly coated layers of acrylic polymer achieve chaotic compositions of materiality and form. Johnson’s work was included in BRIC Rotunda’s summer 2008 exhibition, Grotesque Histories, and he will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the prestigious Stux Gallery in Chelsea. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other public and private collections.
LISA KERESZI (S)
Records with curtain, Galapagos, Bklyn, 2000, C-Print, 11x14 in. Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Brooklyn-based Lisa Kereszi works in photography and is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Photography at Yale, where she earned her M.F.A. She had a solo show in the Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. Kereszi has been in group shows at the Whitney Museum, the Paul Morris Gallery, and the Bronx Museum of Art, among others. She also works as a freelance photographer, and her work has appeared in publications such as W, The New Yorker, Artforum, Details, and the New York Times Magazine. Kereszi’s photographs were seen in the spring 2008 Lori Ledis Emerging Curator exhibition, Properly Past.
BASEERA KHAN (S)
Charlie Horse, 2008, Mixed-media on paper, 8• x 11 in.
Baseera Khan earned her BFA in 2005 from the University of North Texas. Her work involves “a bank of imagery consisting of differing philosophies, ideals, war iconography, fashion periods, animals, and economic stratification. [She discards] these images selectively in a contained space [creating], fantasy, confusion, and forced existences. The garish cartooning and light-hearted techniques broadcast personal experience and tend to conceal the legitimate hardships embedded within, the cultural undertones.” Khan is Gallery Manager at BRIC Rotunda Gallery and has co-curated two exhibitions for the Gallery: Grotesque Histories and A Wrinkle in Time: Artists from the Registry. She will have a solo exhibition at the Hosfelt Gallery, New York, in spring 2009.
FRAN KORNFELD (S)
Sol, 2008, Ballpoint pens and wax crayon on paper, 7 x 5 in.
Fran Kornfeld is a Brooklyn-based artist whose exuberant abstract drawings interact with each other “within the framework of an underlying theme.” Her works “form the basis of a wall-based configuration that is shown in the form of an installation, [which] can vary in size and shape, depending upon the nature of the overall work and the space in which it is being presented.” Kornfeld is a longtime supporter of BRIC Rotunda gallery, and is included in the Gallery’s Artist Registry.
WILLIAM LAMSON (L)
Selected Actions, 3 videos from a series of 33
William Lamson is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in video, photography, per formance, and sculpture. His work addresses issues of masculinity, amateurism, science, play, and the quixotic quest for personal heroism that accompanies these subjects. Lamson received his MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2006 and his BA from Dartmouth College in 2000. His work has been shown at P.S.1, The Brooklyn Museum, Pierogi Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, among others. Lamson exhibited a series of large-scale photo graphs in BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s fall 2007 exhibition, Exposure.
CARLOS MOTTA (L)
Nicaragua; still from The Good Life, 2005–2008, C –Print, 20 x 16 in.
Colombian-born, New York-based Carlos Motta works in photography and video installation. He uses “strategies from documentary, journalism and sociology to engage with specific political events in an attempt to observe their effects and suggest alternative ways to write and read those histories.” He received his MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2003 and is the recent recipi ent of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He has had solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa; and Art in General, New York. Motta exhibited in BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s fall 2007 show, Exposure. The image donated to our Gala is from Motta’s exhibition, The Good Life, currently on view at Art in General, New York and as an Internet project, www.la-buena-vida.info.
MONIqUE SCHUBERT (S)
Relativity, 2008, Flashe on etching, 12 x 8 in.
Monique Schubert studied painting at Skidmore College and received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her paintings and drawings, Mo nique explores themes of awareness and transcendence located in and connected to the human body. She extracts elements of textile designs and reworks them into pat tern-based compositions. Pattern becomes a metaphor for the way human life is lived within routine, habit, and ritual. The silhouettes represent ideas, feelings, memories held and interconnected with the larger matrix of the overall pattern. Schubert is an Artist Educator in BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s Rotunda in Residence! as well as for other cultural organizations, providing arts education to New York public school students.
ROBERTO VISANI (L)
Upward, 2008, Cardboard, hot glue, and sand, 42 x 21 x 12 in.
New York-based, Italian-born artist Roberto Visani is a mixed-media sculptor whose work was shown in BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s spring 2008 exhibition, Ethnographies of the Future. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan in 1997. He has been an artist-in-residence at The Cooper Union, New York City, and has had works included in exhibitions at the New Museum and The Studio Museum of Harlem, among others. His sculptures incorporate discarded objects collected from neighbor hoods in New York, and deal with issues ranging from the ideological effects of the slave-trade on society to how the media filters contemporary violence and disasters.
JULIA VON EICHEL (L)
Untitled (detail), 2001, Oil etching, 11 x 9 in.
Julia von Eichel received her BA in sculpture in 1996 from The School of Visual Arts. She works in both sculpture and drawing. Her three-dimensional works merge draw ing with installation, creating drawings that inhabit real space. In turn, the carefully incised surfaces of her abstract works on canvas are lent a sculptural air. Von Eichel was in BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s winter 2008 show, Infinite Line: Contemporary Draw ing in Time and Space. She had a solo exhibition at the Sarah Meltzer Gallery, New York in spring 2008, and has appeared in group shows at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Graham and Sons, New York; and Addison Ripley Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. Von Eichel is also a member of the Gallery’s Artistic Advisory Committee.
ANAHITA VOSSOUGHI (S)
Abu Sunset Pile, 2007, Oil on board, 9 x 11 in.
Anahita Vossoughi’s paintings explore the cultural conflicts between her home life with Iranian parents and the Middle American sensibilities presented to her growing up in Kansas. She layers “Middle Eastern and Indian imagery with rubble, fireworks, drips, blobs, sprays and splashes of paint,” creating “scenarios that are contextual ized within a realm of mythology, science fiction, and mysticism.” She has shown her work at the Queens Museum of Art, Exit Art, and the Brooklyn Artists’ Gym, among others. She has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Yale University.
HONG CHUN zHANG (L)
Cheers, #1, 2005, Graphite on paper, 18 x 24 in.
Born and raised in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Chun Zhang now lives in Kansas and teaches part time at the University of Kansas. She has studied art in both China and the United States, and her work represents the balance she has found between the two cultures. Her work focuses mainly on painting and drawing, as well as installation pieces, and explores her identity and heritage as a Chinese woman in both her native China and her new home in America. Hong exhibited a monumen tally-scaled, scroll-format drawing depicting her and her sister’s hair in BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s winter 2008 exhibition, Infinite Line: Contemporary Drawing in Time and Space.
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Raffle
All Gala attendees are entered into a raffle to win a work by Jonathan Allen, an artist in BRIC Rotunda Gallery’s fall exhibition A Wrinkle in Time: Artists From the Registry. Additional raffle tickets can be purchased for $50 the night of the event.
JONATHAN ALLEN
Revolt!, 2008, Paper, paint, ink, and photograph on paper, 22.5 x 15.5 in.
Jonathan Allen collages together fragmented images from con temporary culture, art history, current events, and world-views to develop surreal dreamscapes. Each collage reflects the world condition by conveying dissonance and fluidity. Allen received his BA from Columbia University in 1997. He has participated in the BRIC Rotunda Gallery exhibitions A Wrinkle in Time, fall 2008, and Radiant in 2006. Allen has also shown his work in group exhibitions at such institutions as Real Art Ways, Hartford; Exit Art, New York, and Artists Space, New York. He is a 2008 recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation award.
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BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn Experiences
Bid to win special insider’s experiences with each of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn’s signature programs:
INSIdER BCAT ExpERIENCE
sponsored by Greg Sutton, Director, Media Programs
Everyday, a BCAT Brooklyn Independent Television senior producer jumps into the depths of this diverse borough to bring you award-winning stories that reflect the true Brooklyn experience. Interviewing a local community leader? Sampling the deliciousness of a five-star Brooklyn eatery? Perfecting an Olympic jab with a professional boxer? The appointment book of a BIT senior producer is brimming with possibilities and surprises! Now is your chance to join one of our producers in the field‚ as they gather the raw footage that later becomes a professionally-produced BIT segment. Later, you’ll receive a specially-made DVD that features the completed show with your name listed in the credits.
INSIdER CELEBRATE BROOKLyN! ExpERIENCE
sponsored by Jack Walsh , Director, Performing Arts Programs
As a Friend of the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival, you will have an all-access pass to Brooklyn’s premier free, summer performance festival that has been presented at the Prospect Park Bandshell since 1979. Featuring an eclectic mix of music, dance, word and film from around the world and around the block, the Festival receives accolades from the pub lic and press for its extraordinary programming and for having New York’s best outdoor venue. A $300 value, a Great Friend membership for Celebrate Brooklyn! 2009 provides a couple with great perks throughout the season including access to the Friends Tent and reserved seating section, 2 pre-concert Friends receptions, opening night after-party, backstage tour with the Producer, Friends express entry and other great perks!
INSIdER KIdSART ExpERIENCE
sponsored by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of Visual Arts Programs
Each spring, BRIC Rotunda in Residence! brings student artwork from schools throughout Brooklyn into the Gallery for a professional installation. This year, one lucky winner will experience the annual KidsArt exhibition from a behind-the-scenes perspective. With this Experience, Director of Education Hawley Hussey will offer a group of up to 6 people of all ages on a one-of-a-kind tour of the show customized for you and your group! The tour will include insider information about the student artwork, the individual school partnerships, as well as food and drink for you and your guests. Perfect for groups of kids, or adults, we will work with you to create a customized experience.
INSIDER BRICSTUDIO EXPERIENCE
sponsored by Stephanie Pacheco, Manager, BRICstudio
Be the first in line for BRICstudio’s 2009 Spring Season with a season pass for two to all BRIClab performances. The BRIClab residency program nurtures talented performers working in theater, dance, music and multi-media performance. The lucky winner of this package will receive tickets for you and a guest to attend four BRIClab work-in-progress performances and a unique opportunity to engage directly in the creative process through our signature conversation series eLABorate.
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