ArtBUZZ: March 25-March 31, 2010
Courtesy: Cinders Gallery/Ric Ocasek
WILLIAMSBURG
Opening Reception: Friday, March 26, 7-10pm
Teahead Scraps marks Ric Ocasek’s first art exhibition in New York and features never before seen drawings selected from a body of work that spans the last thirty years. Like the music of his beloved rock band The Cars, his drawings are unabashedly pop- and yet unlike his music’s super sleek veneer, these works are a bit more raw and unedited, revealing meditative moments of a Zen-like drawing practice. Never intended for public view, these works on paper are fluid and unselfconscious abstractions made with colored pencils, pens, and markers. Mr. Ocasek’s spontaneous, rhythmic mark-making is completely musical and explores repetition and patterns with psychedelic colors and sinuous lines.
While The Cars were perhaps the perfect embodiment of pop art and pop music (Andy Warhol even directed an amazing Cars video), the art of Ric Ocasek can easily be seen as another extension of this union by one of its pioneers and constant practitioners.
Opening Reception: Friday, March 26, 7-9pm
Barry Stone employs a wide variety of practices as a means of generating singular images. His approach includes “straight” photography, re-photographing, computer-rendering, and manually reworking, and does not value one method above another. Instead, Mr. Stone takes an egalitarian view of image-making. At a time when an explosion of photographic imagery can seem to dilute the medium to an infinite stream of information, he displays a considered selection that exemplifies his varied approaches.
In two photographs—one of a I Met a Unicorn at a children’s party, the other of a woman pointing her digital camera at a sunset—the conceptual focus of the image is enclosed in the framing of a scene observed by Mr. Stone through the lens of his camera. Another work in the show is a re-photographed image of an oil painting, an image within an image. In a third piece, he employs the conceit of the self-referential image again by spray-painting an arc on a photograph of a corner space and re-photographing, collapsing the pictorial space back into abstract elements.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS/CROWN HEIGHTS
Artist Reception: Saturday, March 27, 4-7pm
A one day only viewing of new work by respected artist, curator, and arts writer Carl E. Hazlewood. Born in Guyana and currently based in Brooklyn, Mr. Hazlewood is also the co-founder of Newark, New Jersey’s acclaimed art space, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art.
BUSHWICK
“Copyright and Trademark Basics for Artists:” Wednesday, March 31, 5:30-7:30pm
Learn about basic copyright law, including what qualifies as a copyright, how to register a work for copyright protection, copyright licenses and cease and desist letters. Speakers Monica Pa and Wendy Szymanski will cover visual art, musical works, fashion design, and film and television works. Presented by the pro-bono committee of the New York State Bar Association, Entertainment andSports Law Section. The BAC Professional Development Seminars: Making Art Work series is generously sponsored by Brooklyn Community Foundation.
