The Academy is pleased to share a new ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT series on our blog, to showcase what our graduates are doing. Here, Doris Buehler, MFA 2000. What are you currently working on? I was been preparing for a Single Show at the Gallery Bachlechner, in Zürich, June 18th -31st July 2011. I showed a collection of sculptures, paintings, mixed media… Read More
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 I decided that it would be best to arrive in Italy prepared to start carving immediately. I have been developing a series of simple beeswax heads that hang off the wall. It seemed fitting to make a plaster cast of one of these pieces that I had already become very familiar with, and then attempt… Read More
The Academy is pleased to share a new ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT series on our blog to showcase what our graduates are doing. Here, Joan Benefiel & Jeremy Leichman, MFA 2007. St. Ignatius Commission What are you currently working on? Jeremy Leichman and I met at the Academy and are both sculptors. We have our own sculpture studio business together, Figuration LLC…. Read More
by Stephen Shaheen, MFA 2005 Shaheen and McCaffrey in Italy Over the decade since I finished my training as a sculptor in Italy, I have gone back as much as life permits. Part of my annual recharge in the bel paese has involved teaching. While completing my MFA at the New York Academy of Art, I was surprised by the number of colleagues who… Read More
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 In the weeks after the dizzying and malnourished/sleepless whirlwind that is the ascension towards the ever-exciting TriBeCa Ball, one by one e-mails revealing those students selected for the abundance of scholarships, residencies and fellowships trickle down from the committees and faculty meetings in the sky and all students hope to read their name as they… Read More
Eric Fischl, a Senior Critic at the Academy, recommends this article. Eric is a Trustee and long-time champion of the school, and was recently honored at last year’s annual Take Home a Nude. Eric’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous international solo and major group exhibitions as well as publications. He is the founder, president… Read More
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