Tschabalala Self is a New Haven based painter. She received her B.A. from Bard College in 2012 and her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art in 2015. Her work builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas about the black female body. The artist constructs exaggerated depictions of female bodies using… Read More
Jon Kessler received his BFA from SUNY-Purchase. He has sculptures in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and been the subject solo shows at PS 1, Deitch Projects, and The Drawing Center. He has received… Read More
Art Review: “Coming to Power” at Maccarone Gallery by Anastasiya Tarasenko MFA 2017 Alice Neel Nadya Nude, 1933 Just as our own Take Home a Nude auction is right around the corner, “Coming to Power” offers a scintillating look inside the world of the artist, for whom the forbidden fruit hangs low and always within reach. While sexual imagery used to… Read More
Art Review: Jonathan Gardner at Casey Kaplan Gallery by Stephanie del Carpio MFA 2017 “Bather with a Yellow Towel” As artists, and more so as painters, we have a complex relationship to the past. Jonathan Gardner embraces it and reinvents it into a wonderful pastiche of figures and patterns. His reverence for art history feels genuine and the historical references… Read More
Born in Tehran in 1976, Ali Banisadr’s formative childhood years were during the Iran-Iraq war. Banisadr earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2005, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2007, where he was awarded the Postgraduate Fellowship followed by winning an award in painting from New York Foundation for the Arts…. Read More
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