November 2014 - New York Academy of Art

Artist-in-Residence Program at Leipzig 2014

Posted on November 24, 2014

During the summer of 2014 Matthew Comeau (MFA 2015), Esteban Ocampo Giraldo (MFA 2015, Fellow 2016), Camila Rocha (MFA 2015) and Hannah Stahl (MFA 2015) participated in a two-month Artist-in-Residence Program hosted by Leipzig International Art Programme, in Leipzig, Germany. The Academy’s Leipzig residency is made possible by the New York Academy Travel Fund, the Villore Foundation and Trustees Gordon… Read More

Cecily Brown in Conversation with Claire Cushman (MFA 2015)

Posted on November 18, 2014

By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015) People often tell Cecily Brown that she paints like a man from the fifties. Her response? “Well, somebody’s got to do it.”Her large-scale, remarkably tactile oil paintings hover at the intersection between abstraction and figuration, and are often compared to Abstract Expressionist works. Based on the aggressive way she puts down paint and her star… Read More