Sept. 22, Mon: Monster Monday Madness: Horror Animation + Art Talks Brooklyn + Malcolm Marsden + The Jazz Thieves + Smooth Hound Smith @ The Way Station

6-7:30 pm – Monster Monday Madness: Horror Animation

7:30-8:30 pm – Art Talks Brooklyn

BRIC, Jenny Gerow, Assistant Curator

BRIC presents contemporary art, performing arts and community media programs that reflect Brooklyn’s creativity and diversity. BRIC also provides resources to launch, nurture and showcase artists and media makers. We advance access to and understanding of arts and media by presenting free and low-cost programming, and by offering education and other public programs to people of all ages. Founded in 1981, BRIC’s gallery is the oldest continuously operating contemporary art space in Brooklyn. Starting this September, BRIC will launch a major new initiative, the BRIC Biennial. These exhibitions will present the work of emerging and mid-career visual artists working across artistic media, with each edition focusing on different areas of Brooklyn. The first Biennial this fall will survey artists based in downtown Brooklyn and adjacent neighborhoods, a fitting focus given the location of BRIC House in downtown Brooklyn at the edge of Fort Greene, traditionally, an important cultural center in Brooklyn. This exhibition series intends to demonstrate the rich wealth of talent to be found throughout Brooklyn.

Soapbox, Jimmy Greenfield, Director

Soapbox Gallery is dedicated to providing a forum for visual artists to engage in the issues of our time and express themselves publicly without censorship.

In the tradition of the humble yet mighty soapbox that encouraged free speech and played a role in the development of our social contract, provocative work can stir public debate, raise consciousness, and even spur social evolution.

Too many of us despair at the lack of content in work celebrated by the ART world. Soapbox Gallery challenges artists to speak out and be relevant.

Soapbox Gallery is located at 636 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238 between Carlton and Vanderbilt. It is in the heart of Prospect Heights and a few blocks away from the Barclays Center.

http://soapboxgallery.org/

GRIDSPACE, Charles Goldman

GRIDSPACE, founded in 2010, is an artist run exhibition space located in the storefront window of Charles Goldman’s Crown Heights studio. It features the work of local and national artists, makers and visionaries.

The purpose of GRIDSPACE is to provide an architecturally specific outlet for experimentation that engages the rapidly changing neighborhood of northern Crown Heights. The “space” itself extends from the window and a wooden grid of 12 individually lit 2’ square by 16” deep cubicles, custom built into the specifically designed storefront – into an interior wall, creating a small gallery, and out to the exterior fence, creating a public sculpture garden.

GRIDSPACE is open by chance, opportunity and during the receptions for each exhibition. The exhibition continues to be visible through the window of the storefront gallery for the allotted period of time – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The GRIDSPACE archive is located at gridspace.org. Direct any inquiries to cg@cgwk.net.

9pm – Malcolm Marsden

Genre: Folk-based rock & pop

For fans of: Richard Thompson, Nick Lowe, Hank Williams

Malcolm writes and performs on acoustic and electric guitar, in groups and solo. Having emerged from the diverse Connecticut punk/DIY music scene of the late 1970s, he takes inspiration from mixing musical genres to reveal new avenues of expression. Folk ballads, country and pop art song, rockabilly, R&B and gospel roots music are his ingredients, that blend into a distinctly 21st century American groove.

http://malcolmmarsden.wordpress.com/

10pm – The Jazz Thieves

Genre: Jazz/Rock

For fans of: Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, Bjork

The Jazz Thieves are a group of jazz musicians from Brooklyn, NY. Their music “steals” elements from other different styles of music and brings them to jazz. Like true thieves, they improvise while sticking to a plan, and rely on a “certain set of skills” to help them make music. The band features the dynamic vocalist Matt Robbins, in addition to Ayumi Ishito on sax, Garrett Manley on guitar, Carter Bales on drums, and John Gray, the leader of The Jazz Thieves, on bass.

www.jazzthieves.com

https://www.youtube.com/user/johngray17

11pm – Smooth Hound Smith

Genre: Roots/Americana/Psychedelic Soul

For fans of: Shovels & Rope, The Black Keys, The Wood Brothers

Smooth Hound Smith is an East Nashville-based foot stompin’ American roots and blues duo. Established in 2012, they record and perform a varied and unique style of folky, garage-infused rhythm & blues. Using primal foot percussion, complex, fuzzed-out, finger-picked guitar patterns, warbled harmonicas, tasty harmonies and A LOT of tambourine, they are able to create something rugged and visceral- a modern interpretation of early blues, soul, and rock ‘n’ roll music that harkens back to the traditions of hazy front porch folk songs as well as raucous back-alley juke joints.

“In the case of Smooth Hound Smith, two is all that’s needed to brew a raucous clash of backwoods folk, raw blues, and underground rock.” ~ No Depression

“Smooth Hound Smith delivered an electrifying performance and transformed the sleepy tavern style downtown LA bar...into a lively dance hall...”~ deftune.com

“Smooth Hound Smith sounds like what would happen if you boiled the best things about The Black Keys and Kings of Leon down to their essence, stripped out the over-production, added some impassioned female vocals and wrapped it all in a swaggering Country/Soul bow.”~ CityBeat

www.SmoothHoundSmith.com

Smooth Hound Smith - “30 Days”

Smooth Hound Smith - “Be My Husband”

Smooth Hound Smith - “The Minutes”