Kate Capshaw’s portrait of Toddrick Brockington honors the intergenerational work of Henry Street Settlement, a social services organization that has served Manhattan’s Lower East Side for 130 years, helping 50,000 New Yorkers each year. Brockington joined Henry Street’s staff after serving 26 years in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, having earned a bachelor’s degree in behavioral… Read More
The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present its renowned exhibition series “Eye to Eye,” featuring the collection of Anne-Marie and Pierre Trahan, owners of Arsenal Contemporary. Now in its fifth iteration, “Eye to Eye” asks a prominent collector to select works by Academy MFA students, which are then exhibited side by side with pieces from the… Read More
The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present “Big Stories,” a group exhibition featuring large-scale, contemporary figurative paintings influenced by the narrative tradition. Curated by Bo Bartlett, Noah Buchanan, and Carl Dobsky, Big Stories travels to New York after its initial showing at the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. From Homer to Shakespeare… Read More
Featuring Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, Zoey Frank, & Amy Sherald moderated by Noah Buchanan and Carl Dobsky Against the backdrop of the Big Stories exhibition at the New York Academy of Art, four of the nation’s leading figurative painters meet to discuss The Narrative in art, and its evolving role in today’s world. Reserve Tickets Bo Bartlett (b. 1955,… Read More
Join Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly, and lawyer/artist James Nepaulsingh for a lively, in-person conversation about the essential business skills all artists and creatives need. The talk will cover topics including: When does an artist need a contract? What to do when you think you can’t afford a lawyer. Copyright! …know who owns your work? What to do if, and when… Read More
Aleah Chapin (b. 1986 Whidbey Island, WA) is a painter whose direct portrayals of the human form have expanded the conversation around western culture’s representations of the body in art. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including Flowers Gallery (New York, London, Hong Kong), The Belvedere Museum (Vienna), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New… Read More
Mickalene Thomas is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate portraits of Black women composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while dissecting the intersecting complexities of black… Read More
William Keller (son of Deane Keller Sr. and brother of the late Deane G. Keller (former NYAA faculty)) is an historian of architecture with an interest in cultural landscapes, borderlands, and human geography. Keller graduated from Yale and concentrated on Northern Renaissance art at Columbia University, earning his PhD in art history at the University of Delaware. Keller was on… Read More
Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist based in London and New York. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University; MA in Art Education from New York University; and MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the… Read More
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