The Bundy Museum Presents:
Art of Broken Things
Bob Alan Bricks
First Friday Opening Reception August 5th, 2022
6:00 pm–9:00 pm
Exhibition on display from 8.5.22 - 8.30.22
Located in the Bundy Museum 3rd floor art gallery
Admission to art gallery is always free
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
No RSVP is required for the First Friday event
For regular visiting hours, walk-ins are welcome, however, booking a reservation online is recommended. Upon arriving, please check in at our visitor’s center at 133 Main St., Binghamton NY.
Watch a virtual tour of the gallery below, or in the videos section at Facebook.com/bundymuseum and The Bundy Museum YouTube channel.
Artist Statement:
From our very first moments of consciousness we are bombarded with imagery. Thousands of images explode before our eyes before we're even a month old. It's all a big mystery until... "fast forward" and we're taught what it's all about. Society, Family, Government, Religion, School, etc. All saying "THIS is true". And then, there's advertising, multi-media and tech galore always selling you something more.
But, what if it doesn't seem to work "as seen on TV"? And what happens when there's nothing they sell that you need or even really want anymore? Those images become meaningless; components to be scraped and refashioned into something more authentic and uniquely beautiful. How do I make something meaningful out of broken things? How do I make sense and order out of a fractured world? As an Artist by vocation, I choose not to save but to re-create; to refashion.
It doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to anymore. I shall create and I shall destroy. I shall purge and I shall replenish. I will make love to my Muse on paper every night and I have killed many times on canvas. My visual experiments are often sprinkled with the "thrown away", the useless, grotesque, out of place, and "discarded" playing key roles in a brand new narrative where their value is wide open to the viewer's own interpretations.
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth.”
See more of Bob Alan Bricks or contact him by visiting the below social media, or send Bob an email.
Art Exhibit Virtual Tour:
Art of Broken Things Bob Alan Bricks
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The First Friday Art Walk Virtual Gallery Shows at The Bundy Museum are made possible by a grant from The Harriet Ford Dickenson Fund of the Community Foundation for South Central New York.
Support Provided by the General Operations Support Grant from the United Cultural Fund, a program of the Broome County Arts Council.
The Bundy Museum of History & Art
129 Main St. Binghamton, NY 13905