Monthly Archives: December 2014

A View From The Studios (Roll 2 / 2)

A View From The Studios Roll 2 / 2 By Maya Koenig The New York Academy of Art operates like a family home, with many bedrooms (studios),  and living rooms (classrooms) where siblings (MFA students) spend a majority of their life for the  next two years making their work.  Here is a second glimpse of that world, taken with an Olympus OM-2… Read More

A View From The Studios (Roll 1 / 2)

A View From The Studios Roll 1 / 2 By Maya Koenig The New York Academy of Art operates like a family home, with many bedrooms (studios),  and living rooms (classrooms) where siblings (MFA students) spend a majority of their life for the  next two years making their work.  Here is a glimpse of that world, taken with an Olympus OM-2… Read More

One Sweet World – Will Cotton Master Class

By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015)  Coconut Cake, 2013  Will Cotton stands before a medium sized canvas, blank but for a few brown marks he’s laid in for measurements. He lazily wipes his paintbrush on his apron, which was once white but is now splattered with brown and red paint. “This is my rag,” he tells us. His voice is clear… Read More

COPY/CUT/EDIT

By Daniela Izaguirre, Richard Buchanan and Marco Pali (MFA 2016) There is a process in which the artist’s identity inhabits the work one way or another. The real presence of identity is often overlooked. The Student Curatorial Committee (SCC) opened “Copy, Cut and Edit,” an exhibition that unveiled, through the practice of portraiture, the identity of artists with three different but complementary elements. Evidently, there… Read More