ARTISTS
BRIAN ALFRED
Brian Alfred is an American artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1997 from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Fine Arts in 1999 from Yale University. He has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and his work may be found in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; among others.
Alfred also hosts SOUND & VISION, the long running podcast of conversations with artists and musicians about the creative process, whose guests have included Diana Al-Hadid, Jules de Balincourt, Inka Essenhigh, Dominique Fung, Kahlil Robert Irving, Byron Kim, Hein Koh, Tony Matelli, Hilary Pecis, James Siena, Alexandria Smith, and Chloe Wise. In 2022, Atelier Editions published Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work, a selection of 30 interviews from 2016 to 2020.
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You Could Feel The Sky is a mid-career survey of Brian Alfred’s work from 2003 through the present and debuts several never before exhibited pieces. Paintings, collages, and digital animations depict a range of scenes: domestic interiors, urban cityscapes, portraits of musicians, and idyllic environmental vistas. Alfred’s imagery balances serene explorations of place, at times, with a sense of unease and caution.
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Alfred’s process distills his source imagery to its most essential forms. Drawing technical and aesthetic inspiration from the Japanese ukiyo-e printmaking tradition, he builds the images by creating architectural spaces and layering of surfaces and shapes with a depth of light and form. His imagery—a combination of his own experiences, imagined locations, and sourced imagery—explores the many facets of the current world we live in. The opening reception ofYou Could Feel The Sky featured a special performance by artist-musician Hisham Akira Bharoocha. The exhibition will be on view until December 13, 2024.
DERRICK BELCHAM
Derrick Belcham is a Canadian filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His documentaries, music videos, and dance films are widely acclaimed. He has worked with headline artists, such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Paul Simon, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yo-Yo Ma, among many others. He has created works, lectured, and exhibited at such institutions as M+ (Hong Kong), MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Musee d’Art Contemporain (Montreal), the Glass House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), and Mana Contemporary. He has taught at University of Southern California and Princeton University.
Belcham's retrospective video installation, 15/50/150: Song & Dance, was on view from January 18-28, 2024; and featured 50 films from the last 15 years and 150 artists. The opening reception was a private artist party that introduced WB to New York City's creative community and included the New York premiere of Green to Gold, a film by Belcham and Emily Terndrup with choreography and performance by Bobbi-Jene Smith & Or Schraiber and music by The Antlers.
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