Monthly Archives: June 2011

Eating my Still Life: The Last Meal

The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig during the summer. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Nicolas Holiber (MFA 2012) When I first starting working with animal flesh, in Catherine Howe’s… Read More

Summer Exhibition 2011

This highly anticipated group show brings together a wide range of new work by more than 50 established and emerging talents. Comprised of paintings, drawings, limited-edition prints and sculpture, the chosen works will be selected from over 500 submissions by jurors Matthew Flowers, Carter Foster and Julie Heffernan. Flowers and the Academy have previously collaborated several times, including two 3-person exhibitions… Read More

Eric Telfort: Keeping the Brushes Wet, part 4

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present the next installment in this new series on our blog. Eric Telfort, a 2009 graduate of the New York Academy of Art, blogs with us about “keeping the brushes wet.†Follow us as Eric writes about what it’s like to be a working artist. Continued from the last post: Delayed gratification. This… Read More

Eating My Still Life

The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Nicolas Holiber (MFA 2012)Haben Sie Schweinefüße? “Do you have pigs feet?†was the first complete German sentence I… Read More

Soaking up the Studio

The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012) In 2005 I stood at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA staring at… Read More

Grit and Mortar

The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Alexander Barton (MFA 2012) Nic, Aleah, Holly and Alex in front of the Spinnerei Acres of rescued brick… Read More

Plan, Work, Wonder – Spinning Memories

The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012) Cliffside Cotton Mill, North Carolina Four thousand five hundred and six miles away… Read More

Crossing Borders With Cool Bags

A Review by Michael Kagan, Jason Bereswill and Jane LaFarge Hamill (MFA 2005) inside the Japanese Pavilion, “TABAIMO: teleco-soup” by Artist Tabaimo Day 3: Crossing Borders with Cool Bags Our feet are sore, but the excitement hasn’t worn off. The pebbled paths of the Giardini are still packed with the art crowd and the line for Mike Nelson’s installation at the UK Pavilion is… Read More

The Giardini Pavilions

A Review by Jason Bereswill, Jane LaFarge Hamill and Michael Kagan (MFA 2005) Lee Yonbaek Day 2: The Giardini Pavilions One of today’s favorites was the visual decadence of the Korean Pavilion. The scale of the objects and vibrance of color were seductively polished, but subversively violent – shattering mirrors, flowered neon army fatigues, and one of the only representational… Read More

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Julio Stanly Flores

The Academy is pleased to share a new ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT series on our blog. We’ll be spotlighting our alums to give you an idea about what it’s like to be an Academy grad. Here, Julio Stanly Flores, MFA 2009.  Julio Stanly Flores, Red Buck What are you currently working on? I am working on a series of paintings that depict… Read More