Archived - Shows And Events

October 21, 2016–March 5, 2017 - The most comprehensive exhibition of Buchanan’s work to date, Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals presents approximately 200 objects, including sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and notebooks of the artist’s writing as well as documentation of performances. A new video installation of her existing earthworks is presented for the first time.

July 15, 2016–January 8, 2017 - Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present is one of the first museum exhibitions to put sports photographers in the forefront and is the most comprehensive presentation of sports photography ever organized. It encompasses approximately 230 works from daguerreotypes and salted paper prints to digital images that capture the universal appeal of spor...

June 30 - August 14, 2016 - The installation was conceived in dialog with the concurrent gallery exhibition Look up here, I’m in heaven. Project Room exhibitions highlight solo projects by emerging artists whose work encompasses a rich range of themes and media. Exhibition held in the Project Room, located adjacent to the Gallery in BRIC House is an added resource for video work, BRIC's emerging c...

June 30 - August 14, 2016 - Look up here, I’m in heaven, a group exhibition of unconventional portraits featuring paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media work. Genres are cut up and new materials enter the conversation, unraveling the traditional understanding of portraiture as a singular representation of an individual. By countering old narratives which had long framed the representation of p...

June 6 - August 21, 2016 - This exhibition is an open expression of the intended leaks at BRIC House: the emotions, creativity, and paradigms that the hallway struggles to contain.This hallway installation was conceived in dialog with the exhibition Look Up Here, I’m In Heaven.

April 29–September 18, 2016 - This exhibition connects the work of twenty-five contemporary artists with historical African masquerade, using play and provocation to invite viewers to think critically about their world and their place within it. By putting on a mask and becoming someone else, artists reveal hidden realities about society, including those of power, class, and gender, to suggest pos...

April 21–August 14, 2016 - The exhibition features eighteen works that highlight the artist’s ability to inventively transform ordinary, everyday materials into art. With wit and ingenuity, he creates boom box sculptures that play music and activate the space, turning it into an immersive sound environment. The work is programmed with playlists that go on sequentially throughout our public hours. ...

December 13, 2015 - This exhibition charts shifts in artistic styles and national moods through approximately 140 objects. Included are paintings of the Coney Island shore in the 1870s by William Merritt Chase and John Henry Twachtman; modernist depictions of the amusement park by Joseph Stella; Depression-era scenes of cheap thrills by Reginald Marsh; photographs by Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Wee...

December 11, 2015–August 7, 2016 - The exhibition connects contemporary art devoted to social change with historic moments in creative activism, highlighting activities that seek to motivate broad and diverse publics. Exploring the complexity, range, and impact of these artistic practices including photography, film, prints, banners, street actions, songs, digital files, and web platforms the exhi...

November 20, 2015–August 21, 2016 - This site-specific installation by artist Stephen Powers recalls the birth of new public art in Coney Island, and the emergence of a uniquely American and wholly “Coney Island” style of painting. As a longtime admirer of the fading craft of sign painting, Powers has revitalized the tradition of colorful, hand-painted signage and advertisements in an age of digit...