04.07.16 - 05.22.16

Laura Karetzky and Manuel Sosa: In-Communication / In-Transit

Laura-Karetzky

Exhibition Info

Time
Tue-Sat, 10am-6pm; Closed Mondays
Location
  • Project Room at BRIC House

*EXHIBITION EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 22!

Painter Laura Karetzky and composer Manuel Sosa use their Skype and FaceTime chats with friends and loved ones as content for a unique pairing of paintings, video, and sound. The installation relates the in-between moments of digital communication—the freezing video or breaking-up of the sound—as a tangible distance, both poetic and comedic, that is felt in our interaction.

Laura Karetzky is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and MFA from New York Academy of art and has had several solo exhibitions throughout the country, including Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Ava Gallery, Lebanon, NH; and Howard Schickler Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC; and Katonah Museum Arts Association, Katonah, NY. Karetzky is a founding member and Visual Arts Advisor for The Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities and a member of BRIC’s Contemporary Arts Council.

Manuel Sosa is an award-winning composer whose music has been performed by renowned ensembles and performers throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. Commissions include the New Juilliard Ensemble, North/South Consonance, the Minnesota Orchestra, D.C. Dance Theater, New York Choreographic institute, and the Melton Foundation. Sosa has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, several Yaddo residencies, and the Meet the Composer/Van Lier Fellowship. His writings about music and art have been presented and published in academic journals across Europe and South America. Sosa is chair of the ear-training department and member of the composition faculty at the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School, and he is also professor at Fordham University.

Project Room exhibitions highlight solo projects by emerging artists whose work encompasses a rich range of themes and media.