Joyce Kozloff’s walk-in “Targets” is highlight of “Mapping Brooklyn” show at BRIC (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Who: Works by Aaron Beebe, Francisca Benitez, Justin Blinder, Christine Gedeon, Katarnia Jerinic, Joyce Kozloff, Laura Kurgan, Peter Lapsley, Jennifer Maravillas, Simonetta Moro, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Jan Rothuizen, Patricia Smith, and Sarah Williams
What: “Mapping Brooklyn”
Where: BRIC House, 647 Fulton St., 718-683-5600
When: Sunday, May 3, free, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Why: The BRIC half of the “Mapping Brooklyn” exhibition, which examines the greatest borough in the world from a socio-geographical point of view, comes to a close on May 3 (while the Brooklyn Historical Society part of the show continues through September 6). The centerpiece at BRIC is Joyce Kozloff’s “Targets,” a walk-in globe lined on the inside with colorful aerial maps of locations around the world that have been bombed by the United States between 1945 and 2000, places both well known and not. The detailed maps are set at various angles that mimic the way airplanes swoop, disorienting visitors, as does an echo that reverberates within the structure when you speak. Kozloff’s “L’Amérique du Nord,” from her “Social Studies” series of digitally manipulated French schoolroom maps, is also at BRIC, while several other pieces by the New Jersey-born artist, including the 2015 collage “Waves,” are on view at the Brooklyn Historical Society.