Faculty Chair, Printmaking Coordinator, Full time faculty, Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking, earned his BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University. He additionally studied at the Tamarind Institute and the School of the Nude, Florence, Italy. He has taught at the University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Brandeis University, College of Charleston, Savannah College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Montserrat College of Art and Hofstra University. He received artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, MacDowell Colony and Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Awards include two fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the 1994 Basil Alkazzi Award, a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, a Pollack-Krasner Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship. He has had recent solo exhibitions in New York and Washington, DC. Currently, his work is available through DFN Gallery, New York City; Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn; and McGowan Fine Art, Concord, New Hampshire. His work is housed in the permanent collections of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, New Mexico, the Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio, the States of New Hampshire and South Carolina, and the City of Seattle. Jacobsmeyer is a member of the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Advisory Council.

 

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Sculpture Coordinator for MFA program at the New York Academy of Art and Full-Time faculty member of Sculpture and Drawing, Harvey Citron received a BFA from Pratt Institute, and a Diploma of Sculpture from the Academia di Belli Arti, Rome Italy, where he was awarded the Gold Medal for Anatomical Studies for a Foreign Student. He currently serves also as an Adjunct Professor on the sculpture faculty at the University of the Arts, where he has taught since 1981. In 1984, 1991, 1998, and 2007 he was awarded the Mellon Venture Fund Grants by the University of the Arts. From 1994 to 1996, and from 2000 to 2003, he served as Faculty Chair at the New York Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and was included in “Figurative Art 1960 – 80”, an exhibition that traveled throughout the US and Europe, and in “Derrière Guard” a 1997 exhibition at the Kitchen in New York. He has been in exhibitions to the present. He has lectured as a visiting artist at American University, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia College of Art (presently the University of the Arts), Yale University, University of Michigan, and The Parnell School of Drama of Carnegie Mellon University.

Howe received her MFA in painting from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She had her first exhibition in New York at White Columns in 1987. While in Buffalo she served as Curator of Hallwalls, a legendary artist-run space started by Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo. She left Buffalo for a New York studio in the meat packing district in 1989 and became Associate Director of White Columns until 1995. She emerged as an artist while in this creative non-profit milieu in the early 90s along with artists such as John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage – artists also interested in painting a new figuration.

Howe's work has been discussed in numerous publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, the New Art Examiner, and The Los Angeles Times. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively in New York, including solo exhibitions at Claire Oliver, Casey Kaplan, Liz Koury, Littlejohn Contemporary, and Bill Maynes Gallery. Exhibitions abroad include Yukiko Kawase, Paris, and Thomas von Lintel, Munich.

In 2010, she was featured as the first solo show at Lesley Heller Workspace on the Lower East Side, and was included in "Animal as Other" curated by April Gornik at Danese. Exhibitions in 2011 include "Pornotopia", Allegra LaViola gallery, and "Desert in the Ocean" a multidisciplinary residency/exhibition with Irish and American artists. She will have a solo show in spring of 2012 with Von Lintel Gallery, in Chelsea.

 

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Drawing Coordinator, Full-time faculty, Drawing and Painting, and a founding teacher at the New York Academy of Art, earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Brooklyn College. He also studied drawing and painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is a Prix de Rome recipient from the American Academy in Rome, and has received painting grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill, Elizabeth Greenshields, and Adolph Gottlieb Foundations. He has been awarded the Classical America Arthur B. Ross Award for painting and won, with Michael Graves, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Clos Pegase Competition. His work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including shows at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, the Arnot Museum, Elmira, New York, the Bayly Museum at the University of Virginia, the Brooklyn Museum, the Gibbs Museum, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Museum shows in Europe include the Centre Georges Pompidou and Musée de la Grande Combe in France. He is represented by the More Gallery, Philadelphia, the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, and the Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco. He recently had a solo exhibition at Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans.

Painting Coordinator, Full-time faculty, Painting and Drawing, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and traveled extensively in Europe on a Schiedt Travel Grant for Study from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has taught painting and drawing privately for over fifteen years and at various institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He has received many awards, including three Visual Arts Fellowship Grants for Painting from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has also received an Award of Excellence from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was a National Endowment for the Arts Mid-Atlantic Regional Fellowship Finalist. He has had numerous one-person shows in New York and Philadelphia, and has shown extensively in many museums in the eastern and southern US. His work has been shown in many publications including The New York Times, the New Yorker, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Art in America, Slate, and The Sciences magazine. He is represented by the Forum Gallery, New York and the More Gallery, Philadelphia.

Adjunct faculty, Painting and Drawing, attended Pratt Institute. He has taught at Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts and is a recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Charles Roman Award and ED Foundation Grant. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and reviewed extensively. He has had solo exhibitions at Forum Gallery, New York, and has been included in group shows at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Queens Museum of Art, the New York State Museum in Albany, and the Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago. He had a ten-year retrospective at the Frye Museum in Seattle, Washington and he is currently represented by the Forum Gallery. His work was the focus of a segment on the CBS Sunday Morning television show. Lindenhill Books has published a book on his drawings, and articles on his work have appeared in ARTnews and Art in America.

Will Cotton's sumptuous oil paintings are in the soft focus, soft-core tradition of 18th-century masters Broc, Gerard, Franque and Fragonard. Like his predecessors, Cotton (who was born in Massachusetts in 1965 and studied art at New York's Cooper Union and the New York Academy of Art) paints beautiful, creamy skinned nudes amidst luscious surroundings. But while Cotton's paintings recall the sensuality and delight of his forefathers, he is far from a mere copyist. Instead of painting high on the sugar of that decadent lost age in art, Cotton updates his opulent source material by replacing pastoral love scenes with mountains of sweets and erotic treats.

Senior Critic, received a BA in fine art and art history from Haverford College. He subsequently studied for one year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, and for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely, most recently in solo exhibitions at the Marlborough Gallery in New York. He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, the Everson Museum of Art Purchase Prize, a Rome Grant from the Creative Artists Network and a Cresson Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1996, he became the first American artist to receive the International Contemporary Art Prize awarded by the Prince Pierre Foundation of the Principality of Monaco. His works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, Galerie Sammlung Ludwig in Aachen, Germany, the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina and the Indiana University Museum of Art.

Adjunct faculty, Painting and Art History, received a B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts and has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and the Santa Fe Institute of the Arts. For the past eighteen years, he has had at least two solo exhibitions a year in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Holland, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Waddington Gallery in London and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He has been the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and his works are in numerous private and public collections, including that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is represented by the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City.

 

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Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). His essay "Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art" appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.

Senior Critic, received her degree at Glasgow School of Art (1988-1992) and was subsequently awarded a six month scholarship to the University of Cincinnati. She studied at the Slade School of Art 1992-1993. Her work has been reviewed and discussed in major publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flashart and ARTnews. Since her debut in 1992, her focus has remained on the body. Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correctikon, disease states and transgender patients (Saville by Simon Schama, 2005). In 2002, she collaborated with photographer Glen Luchford to produce a series of large scale polaroids. Major exhibitions include: Cooling Gallery, London, 1993; the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, 1997; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, California; Rotunda: County Hall, London; Jenny Saville - Migrants, Gagosian Gallery, New York; The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2003; International Biennial Exhibition, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004; The Figure in and out of Space, Gagosian Gallery, New York; MACRO - Museo dArte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, 2005; Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville, The Bilotti Chapel, Rome, 2006.

Bartolozzi received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Delaware, and her Masters in Fine Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis under a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Bartolozzi is represented by The Forum Gallery, Inc. in New York City. She is a contemporary realist who works with the human figure in narrative and allegorical themes.

 

She has served as a Visiting Artist for Horizons in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, and Horizons to Go travel programs in Europe and Mexico. She has been Adjunct Faculty at Indiana University, in Indianapolis, Indiana, The University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, and the National Academy of Art in New York, New York.

 

One person exhibitions of her work have been presented by Forum Gallery in New York in 2008, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover Delaware under the Masters Fellowship in the Arts Grant in 2005, the Delaware Division of the Arts under an Individual Artist Fellowship in 1992, the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1984, and the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware in 1997. She has also exhibited her work in group exhibitions at the Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Spruill Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, The Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, and The Kitchen and Knoedler & Company in New York City. Her work has been included in exhibitions abroad with the Gruppo Donatello in Florence, Italy, the Vonderau Museum in Fulda, Germany, and the Kalmar Lans Museum in Kalmar, Sweden. Her work is included in private and museum collections.

Adjunct faculty, Painting, studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has had a twelve year career as a portrait painter while continuing a personal examination of this genre in her studio work. Among her many collectors are acclaimed writer/critic Thomas Bolt and actor John Turturro. She has exhibited at Tatistcheff Gallery, New York City, and Klaudia Marr Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 1994, he began his artistic studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied classical painting and drawing as well as extensive studies in human anatomy. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 from University of California, Santa Cruz where he studied closely under Frank Galuszka. In 2002, he received a Masters of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art where he studied with Martha Erlebacher, Steven Assael and Vincent Desiderio.

 

Noah has received a number of awards and 4 Individual Artist Grants; the Stobart Foundation Grant, The Posey Foundation Award,The Stacey Award as well as the Sugarman Award. Other noteworthy awards include The Congressional Art Award and the Chancellor's Award, University of California at Santa Cruz.

 

Noah Buchanan has participated in exhibitions in New York, Pennsylvania and California. He has exhibited internationally in London and Aberdeen, Scotland. His paintings and drawings are featured in private and public collections throughout the United States. The artist shows with John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia. He teaches painting and drawing at colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in New York City. He currently lives in Manhattan where he teaches at the New York Academy of Art.

 

His work is based in the academic tradition of the figure, and favors themes of the mythic, symbolic and heroic. He is primarily interested in depicting the human figure as an anatomical event, which houses the spirit of the human condition.

 

Noah Buchanan was born in 1976, raised in Southern California.

 

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Patrick Connors is a 1980 graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and 1982 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His work is exhibited internationally and is included in both private and public collections. In the past decade, he exhibited at the Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Butler Institute of American Art, Arcadia Gallery, and National Academy of Design. Connors teaches at the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has lectured at Yale University Art Gallery, Drexel School of Medicine, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His published articles include: "Through the Picture Plane: The Poetry in the Pictorial Space of Thomas Eakins"; "Chiaroscuro and the Ambiguity of Gloom"; and "The Legacy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts." In 2002, Connors was awarded an Oxford University Summer Residency Fellowship in painting and anatomy. In 1998 he was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for painting. He was the select alternate for a Senior Research Fulbright Scholarship for Italy in 1999. Connors has completed numerous private and public commissions for portrait, figure, landscape, still life, and mural.

Adjunct faculty, Painting, earned a B.A. in English and philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross and an M.A. in scenic design from Catholic University. He has taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Louis Newman Galleries in Beverly Hills and the CFM Galleries, Gallery Dai-Ichi and MB Modern in New York City. He has received gold medals for his work from the Pastel Society of America and the National Arts Club. His paintings are included in the collections of the Redding Museum, the Arkansas Art Center and the Arnot Museum, as well as in numerous private collections throughout the U.S. He is represented by Sydney Bernard Fine Arts in Los Angeles and MB Modern in New York City.

 

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Adjunct faculty, Painting, is a painter and mixed- media artist who has exhibited his work widely in Europe and the United States since 1985. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include "Hurricane Party," Bellwether, Brooklyn NY, 2002, "New City" Project, Steven Sclaroff, New York, 2002, and "Ideal City," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 2004. Previously, he had solo exhibitions including shows at Richard Anderson, New York, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, and Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, 1988. His work has been discussed in many publications including The New York Times, Time Out, and The New Yorker.

Adjunct faculty, Sculpture and Drawing, earned a BS from the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He is also a full-time faculty member at the Parsons School of Design and has taught at Altos de Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic, where he was Artist-in-Residence. In addition to his work as a sculptor, he has done architectural design and mural painting. He is a recipient of a National Arts Club's Ruth Mellon Memorial Sculpture Award, and his work has been exhibited in New York and the Dominican Republic. He has recently designed and completed sculptures for Studio EIS, Jeff Koons and David Salle.

Jon deMartin received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute. Studied primarily with Michael Aviano, the Art Students League under Gustav Rehberger and Nelson Shanks, and independently with Daniel Greene. In addition he trained in cast drawing with Millet Andrejevic and Edward Schmidt. Having studied at the Art Students League and The New York Academy, he has subsequently taught at both schools. His work has appeared in Art in America, Art News, Art & Antiques, and The Classicist. He has published an article on classical cast drawing for American Artist magazine. His most recent solo show was at The Classical Gallery in Alexandria Virginia, Of This Time, Of That Place. He participated in the New York Classicism Now show in 2000 at the Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York and the Fall 2002 show Epic Still Lifes at the John Pence Gallery. He is represented by Hirschl & Adler, New York, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, The Classical Gallery, Alexandria, VA, and Art Showcase, New York

Named NYAA Dean of Academic Affairs January 2010. Peter Drake’s art has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Europe. His work is included in numerous prestigious private collections as well as the Whitney Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., the Achenbach Collection and the L.A. County Art Museum. Individual paintings have been exhibited recently at the Mobile Museum of Art, ASU Art Museum and the Katonah Museum of Art.
Articles and reviews of Peter Drake’s work have appeared in Art in America, Art New England, Flash Art, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, Art & Antiques, Time Out, and in ARTnews. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a 2006 fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts award and was a awarded a year long Artist in Residency at the “Kunst Station Sankt Peter” in Koln, Germany.
Peter Drake earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and has taught at Parsons the New School for Design, the School of Visual Arts, the Maryland Institute College of Art and has been a visiting lecturer and a visiting artist at numerous colleges and museums.
Although predominately a painter, Drake recently has expanded his art into video and animation saying, “ In effect I have always thought of my work cinematically, I set the stage and then fill it with props and actors so with video it feels like I’m still painting, just in time and space.”

 

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Cynthia Eardley's figurative sculptures have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums nationwide, including the Monique Knowlton Gallery, Museum of South Texas, Huntsville Museum, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and most recently, Sideshow, Ceres, and Rhonda Schaller galleries (New York). Her work has been discussed in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Sculpture, The Village Voice, The Nation, Sculpture Review, and ARTnews magazine, where her figurative sculpture was featured in "The New Realism." Former co-founder and co-director of the architecture/public arts group SITE, Inc, her trompe-l'oeil design for Best Products in Richmond, Va., the "Peeling Project," was the first in a series by SITE that was reviewed and exhibited worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (NYC). A 2005 monograph (SITE: Identity in Density, Images Publishing, Melbourne) features several examples of her early architectural work. She teaches sculpture, anatomy, and art history at the New York Academy of Art Graduate School of Figurative Art. She has also taught at Pratt Institute, the University of the Arts, and the Newark Museum School and participated in numerous lectures and arts conferences nationwide. Her writings on art have been published in Bomb magazine, the Women's Caucus on Art National Update, and most recently, The Brooklyn Rail.

Adjunct Faculty, Michele Fenniak received her B.F.A. from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and her M.F.A. from Yale University.  She has taught at Pratt Institute, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and Queen's University.  Collections include the Arkansas Arts Center and Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Florida. She is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant, three Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants and Ontario Arts Council Grants. She is represented by Forum Gallery in New York.

Judy Fox is a sculptor working in New York. As an undergraduate she studied sculpture at Yale and Skowhegan, then received a Masters in Art History and Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
Ms Fox started showing in the East Village in 1985, pioneering contemporary figuration with her painted nude children. Since then has participated in numerous private and public exhibitions around the US, and Europe, including shows at: the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; National Museum, Gdansk, Poland; Universty of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville; Sammlung Essl, Vienna; Tate, Liverpool; Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island; Exit Art; Kunst Werke Berlin; Venice Biennale; Liestal Kunsthalle im Palazzo, Switzerland; Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, SF; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; Salzburg Rupertinum; and solo shows at PPOW, NYC; ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills; Traklhaus Gallery, Salzburg; and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris. Her shows have been written up in such publications as the NY Times, Artnews, Der Standard, Flashart, Kunstforum International, Artforum, Artnet, American Ceramics, Sculpture Magazine, and Art in America.
Judy Fox has been awarded 5 residencies at the MacDowell Colony, and one at Yaddo. She has received many awards, including two NEA grants, and awards from the "Anonymous Was a Woman" foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a 2006 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a 2009 fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Judy Fox teaches regularly at the Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria.

 

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Laura Frazure Adjunct faculty, Anatomy, received a BFA in sculpture from the University of the Arts, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Recently, she has shown at the Borowsky, Goldie Paley and Rosenwald Wolf galleries in Philadelphia. She was a finalist for this year's Pew Fellowships in the Arts and is a two-time Venture Fund recipient. Her professional experience ranges from creating figurative sculpture to production design for theater and film. She also teaches at the University of the Arts, Moore College of Art and Design, and Drexel University.

Adjunct faculty, Painting, received an Associates Degree in Art from Nassau Community College, a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in painting from Yale University where he had a scholarship to study with William Bailey and Bernard Chaet. He has taught at Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Nassau Community College and Suffolk Community College, and currently teaches painting, drawing and art history at the State University of New York at Farmingdale. He conducts frequent art lectures throughout the New York area, has traveled extensively throughout Europe and teaches an annual class in Renaissance art history that tours major centers including Florence and Venice. His work is held in numerous public and private collections including Arthur Andersen International Headquarters, St. Paul, Illinois, Brown and Forman, Louisville, Kentucky, American Postal Workers Union in Washington, DC, and the George Meany Center, Silver Springs, Maryland, and he has exhibited across the US and abroad, most recently holding a solo show at George Billis Gallery, New York.

Adjunct faculty, Drawing, received her BS from Texas A&M and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She is an assistant professor at Parsons School of Design and has taught in the painting department at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art. She is represented by Stricoff Fine Art in New York where she has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, the most recent in March 2010. Her paintings were recently exhibited by Vagabond Schmarotzer Gallery at Bridge Art Fairs in Berlin, Amsterdam and Miami. After a two-month long residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland in 2007, the foundation hosted a solo exhibition of the work she completed there. Her work can be seen on her website: www.debragoertz.com

Originally from London Laurence Hegarty has lived in New York for more than two decades. Initially trained as an artist Hegarty's interests have wandered over the years leading him to pursue film studies and psychoanalysis as partners in the conversation that shapes his studio practice. Hegarty has trained as a psychotherapist and he now maintains a private practice in New York City. Though the two disciplines – studio art and psychoanalysis – are not integrated in any way, it is the overlaps and collisions between them that shape Hegarty's art making. Often staged as parades or processions his installations employ found objects jostling for space alongside figures hoisting flags, batteries of rubber cameras, weapons, carriages and sundry domestic objects. Frequently used are photographs and fragments of writing plundered from poems, psychoanalytical texts, European art cinema, and liquor commercials. The general tone is theatrical, the loose organizing principle narrative while the references trade in allusions to popular culture, political turmoil, clinical horror and drunken reverie. Hegarty is also a writer and teacher. For more than a decade he has taught both BFA and MFA classes in studio art and cultural studies at Parsons The New School. Images of his work can be found at www.laurencehegarty.com

Adjunct faculty, Painting, received his BFA from the University of Colorado and has been a working artist in New York City since then. He has had numerous solo shows, beginning with the Paulo Salvador Gallery in the East Village in the early 1980s, as well as at the Penine Hart Gallery, Nicholas Davies Gallery, both of New York, and the Koplin Gallery in Los Angeles. His many group shows include the inaugural show for the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, The Grey Art Gallery, New York City and most recently with DFN gallery also in New York. Among his awards are Change Inc., Art Matters, and Yaddo, Ucross and MacDowell Fellowships. He also traveled extensively throughout Europe on a Glorious Foods Artists Grant. Reviews of his work have appeared in the New Yorker, Art News and Art and Antiques. He has taught drawing and painting at the 92nd St. Y, School of Visual Arts, and Cooper Union.

Adjunct faculty, Anatomy and Sculpture, earned his BFA in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and his MFA from Queens College. He also studied drawing at studio Simi in Florence and completed an apprenticeship at Henreau Marble Studios in Carrara, Italy. He has taught sculpture and drawing at Queens College and techniques of stone carving and restoration at Trinity College in Rome, Italy. In addition to teaching, he has worked on numerous sculpture commissions, on several major historical conservation projects in Italy under the aegis of the Soprintendenza di Belle Arti of Rome, including the Arch of Constantine, and on cast collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Capitolini Museum and the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy, the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, Germany, and the New York Academy of Art.

Adjunct Faculty, Drawing, was the recipient of a full scholarship from Scholastic Art Awards to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts graduating with a four year certificate. That year, he was awarded a Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Subsequent grants: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant, George Sugarman Foundation Grant (twice), and the E.D. Foundation Grant. He has had solo exhibitions at the Latvian Foreign Art Museum, Riga, Latvia, Museum of Nebraska Art, Payne Gallery at Moravian Collage, and two New York City exhibitions at Tatistsheff Gallery. His drawings have been widely exhibited in catalogue supported shows across the US. Reviews include The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and American Arts Quarterly. A feature article “Uomimi in mezzo ai guair” by Lorena Cerbini appeared in Italy’s Arte Magazine. His public collections are the Arkansas Art Center, Museum of Nebraska Art, and Moravian College. He is represented by ACA Galleries in New York City.

 

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David Klass is a sculptor and anatomist who has taught at the University of the Arts, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Bennington College, New York University and the New York Studio School. He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and also studied anatomy at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. A recipient of the National Academy of Design Helen Foster Barnett Prize, his work is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum and numerous private collections.

Adjunct faculty, Painting, received a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. He has shown his work in Europe and the US, at venues including Montpelier Sandelson Gallery, London, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Art Museum of West Virginia Roanoke, Gettysburg College and Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, Ogunquit Museum of Art, Maine, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochester, New York, University Art Museum at Albany, First Street Gallery, New York, George Billis Gallery, New York, and has had numerous solo shows at George Adams Gallery New York, by which he is represented. Among the public collections holding his paintings are the Yale University Art Gallery, Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, Ballard Management, Tulsa, Oklahoma, GUC Collection, Illinois, Patterson, Bellknap, Webb & Tyler, New York and General Electric Corporation, New York. As a member of the Dreamland Artist Club, he participated in the commissioned renewal of Coney Island signage. His work has been published in Harper's Magazine and reviewed by The New York Times.

Adjunct faculty, Drawing, studied as an undergraduate at the Odessa School of Art and the Professional School of Mosaics and Woodcarving. He received an M.F.A. from the Moukhina College of Art and Design in St. Petersburg, and has taught in the U.S. at the University of the Arts, New York University, Brooklyn College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Art Students League and the Sculpture Center. He has completed a number of sculptures in public parks and gardens in Odessa, a monumental war memorial in Kazakhstan and many commissions for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A recipient of the James Wilburt Johnston Sculpture Award, his work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, including a solo exhibitions at the Duke University Museum of Art, the Riskin-Sinow Gallery in San Francisco and the McKee Gallery in New York City, where he is represented.

Sharon M. Louden graduated with a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Louden's work is held in major public and private collections throughout the United States, Asia and Europe, including the Neuberger Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Yale University Art Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Louden's work has been written about in the New York Times, Art in America, Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine and most recently the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as other publications. She has received a grant from the Elizabeth Foundation and has participated in residencies at Tamarind Institute, Urban Glass and Art Omi. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition of sculpture, paintings, and animation at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, AL which traveled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a solo exhibition of animations at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, PA. In addition, her animation, "The Bridge", was on view as a 30' outdoor facade projection at the Johnson Museum of Art last year. Louden's animations continue to be screened and featured in many film festivals and museums all over the world, including an upcoming screening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 2011.

 

Sharon Louden has taught for almost 20 years since graduating from Yale in 1991. Her teaching experience includes studio and professional practice classes to students of all levels in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Colleges and universities at which she has lectured and taught include: Kansas City Art Institute, College of Saint Rose, Massachusetts College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Tyler School of Art, amongst others. In addition, Louden is active on boards and committees of various not-for-profit art organizations and volunteers her time to artists to further their careers. Sharon Louden is a full-time practicing, professional artist who lives and works in New York City.

 

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Adjunct Faculty, Painting. BFA Washington U. in St. Louis, MFA Yale U.; studied at Yale/Norfolk and the New York Studio School. She taught full-time 12 years at Syracuse U., Boston U., UNH, and now teaches at Stockton College in NJ. Adjunct teaching includes the International School in Umbria; 8 years in Rome at RISD EHP, Saint Marys College, Trinity College, John Cabot U., U. of Loyola Chicago. Solo exhibitions include Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura in Milan,The Painting Center, ARC and Artemesia in Chicago, BU Sherman Gallery; she is a member of the Zeuxis Still Life Association. Artists residencies at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, Millay and Ragdale colonies; grants include Blanche E. Coleman, Ingram-Merrill, Fulbright-Hays to Italy. Collections include Alan Shestack, Deputy Director National Gallery of Art, Donald and Allison Innes. Portrait commissions include Franco Citti, Giorgio Bassani. She has been a Visiting Artist at Yale, UPenn, Indiana U., Brooklyn College, UNCG Greensboro, Wright State U. and others. McCann has written art reviews for Art New England.

 

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Adjunct faculty, Anatomy, earned a BA in Art Education from the University of Texas at El Paso, a BFA in Painting from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He has taught at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, and he is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. A recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout the US.

Adjunct faculty, Sculpture, received his BA from Princeton University and has completed several large-scale public commissions in stone, most recently the fountain and entrances at the Chelsea Market in New York, the Millennium Sundial in Connecticut, a cliff face in Le Muy, France, and three large pieces currently at the DeCordova Museum outside Boston. His recent one-person shows include exhibits at Miller-Geisler gallery and Marisa Del Re in New York, Enrico Navarra in Paris, and Thomas Von Lintel in Munich. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, and on the cover of Sculpture magazine.

Adjunct faculty, Anatomy, is a painter and sculptor who earned his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He has taught anatomy at the Art Students League, the Chelsea Art Program and the BOCES Cultural Arts Center. He is a recipient of the James Amster Memorial Award from the National Arts Club and he has participated in group exhibitions in New York, Long Island, Cortona, Italy and Paris, France.

Chris Pugliese studied drawing at the New York Academy of Art from 1985-86. He travelled extensively in Europe and studied painting and sculpture at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia from 1986 through 1993. He has participated in numerous exhibitions at Arcadia Gallery and Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York City, John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and Albemarle Gallery in London.

Jean-Pierre Roy was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1974. Graduating with a BFA in Film from Loyola Marymout University, Jean-Pierre worked as an Art Director for DreamWorks Interactive while beginning his studio practice of painting and drawing. After working as a Art Director and Lead Matte Painter for numerous effects heavy films, Roy moved to New York City to get his MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. Receiving a one-year fellowship from the NYAA, Jean-Pierre studied anatomy at Teddy Hall College, Oxford, England. Since returning to New York, Roy has exhibited across the United States and is currently represented by Rare Gallery in New York City. He has exhibited internationally and has participated in a number of museum shows, including his upcoming solo museum show in the fall at the Torrence Museum of Art in Los Angeles. His work is held in a number of international collections and he has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times and New American Paintings. He currently resides in Brooklyn, and teaches painting at The New York Academy of Art.

Judith Schaechter has lived and worked in Philadelphia since graduating in 1983 with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design Glass Program. She has exhibited widely, including in New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. She is the recipient of many grants, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Crafts, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, The Joan Mitchell Award, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awards, The Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Leeway Foundation grant. Her work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution and numerous other collections. Judith has taught at The Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, The Penland School of Crafts, Toyama Institute of Glass (Toyama, Japan), Rhode Island School of Design, The Pennsylvania Academy, the New York Academy of Art and at The University of the Arts. Her work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and she is a 2008 USA Artists Rockefeller Fellow.

 

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Adjunct faculty, Sculpture, graduated from Washington University, St. Louis, with a BA in art history. Subsequent to graduation, Mr. Simon continued his studio training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he earned the four-year certificate. During this course of study, he was awarded several prizes, including the Stimson Competition (first place), Stewardson competition (second place), Dutrow award, the Mary Butler Award, the PAFA Fellowship Purchase Prize and the Cresson Traveling Scholarship for study in Europe. He has executed both public and private commissions, and has participated in numerous group shows. He had solo debut exhibition at Gross-McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia in December, 2003.

Adjunct faculty, Sculpture, is a graduate of Pomona College whose work has appeared in group and solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. His numerous awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New York City MTA Arts for Transit Commission, a National Sculpture Society Gold Medal and multiple State of Connecticut Percent for the Arts Commissions. A former member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Sculpture Magazine, he has published articles in Sculpture Magazine and Public Art Review, and has frequently written criticism and reviews for Art in America. His most recent solo exhibitions have been at the TransHudson Gallery in New York City, the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans and the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven. He is represented by the TransHudson Gallery, New York City.

Dan Thompson Adjunct faculty, Painting and Drawing, received his BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art, and also studied at the Water Street Atelier and the Art Students League. He has received numerous awards including the Grand Prize for Best of Show at the American Society of Portrait Artists' International Competition, 2001, Honors Award, Portrait Society of America, 2000, Walter Erlebacher Award, New York Academy of Art, 1999, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, 1997 and 2001. He has exhibited widely and is currently represented by the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, Century Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia, and the Morseburg Galleries, Los Angeles.

 

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Patricia Watwood is an artist in the emerging school of New York Classicists, a group committed to creating beautiful representational paintings that will add our contemporary experience to the tradition of painting. Watwood paints nudes, figures, and portraits. Her paintings draw on allegorical, mythological, and narrative themes. The recurring theme in her paintings is the spiritual human presence. Watwood states, "Formal training is the indispensable underpinning of my practice. I seek to follow and build upon the artistic intelligence and traditions of the past, and bring them anew to my own generation."

 

Watwood studied painting at the Water Street Atelier, under Jacob Collins, and at Ted Seth Jacobs’ atelier in France. She earned her MFA with honors from New York Academy of Art.

 

Watwood has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Paris, Houston, San Francisco and Long Island. Her work is represented by John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. Her figurative paintings have been included in several museum shows, including "Enchantment" at the Hartford Art School, "Slow Painting," at the Oglethorpe Museum; "The Great American Nude," at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences; and in "Representing Representation VI," at the Arnot Museum. Her work has been featured in numerous art publications including International Artist, and a recent cover article in American Artist magazine.

 

Watwood also does portrait commissions, and is represented by Portraits, Inc. She lives and paints in Brooklyn, NY.

 

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Adjunct faculty, Painting, received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He has exhibited in numerous shows in New York, California, and France. His work has also been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Arnot Museum in Elmira, New York. Articles on his work have appeared in American Artist, New York Magazine, and The New York Times.

 

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Brooklyn-based painter John Zinsser received a BA from Yale University, where he studied American Studies and Art History. A veteran of more than 30 solo shows in the US and Europe, he has used process and material-specific methods in response to the post-war American legacy of abstract expressionism, minimalism and pop. He also makes conceptual drawings that “map” the meanings of this shared generational lineage. In 1987, he co-founded Journal of Contemporary Art, a magazine devoted solely to interviews with artists. He has written extensively for such publications and websites as Art in America, FlashArt, ArtNet and Artcritical. He is currently represented by James Graham and Sons gallery, in New York, where he will be showing new works in November, 2010. A 10-year survey will be presented at Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, at the same time. Zinsser teaches a lecture class at The New School University devoted to exhibitions in New York City museums and galleries, which includes visits from the featured artists.