During the summer of 2014 Sarah Issakharian (MFA 2015), Amanda Pulham (MFA 2014), James Raczkowski (MFA 2015) and Gabriel Zea (MFA 2015) participated in a month-long Artist-in-Residence Program in Moscow, Russia. The Academy’s Residency Program is made possible by the New York Academy Travel Fund and the Villore Foundation. The Moscow Residency has been made possible through the efforts of… Read More
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 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
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
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
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
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
By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015) Gallery 1 Closing You may have heard of “Take Home a Nude” and wondered whether this annual fundraising auction featured dates with the New York Academy of Art’s nude life models. Allow me to clarify – Take Home a Nude, wherein academy students, alumni, and other artists donate works to raise money for Academy Scholarships… Read More
During the summer of 2014 Tamalin Baumgarten (MFA 2015), Dana Kotler (MFA 2015), Arcmanoro Niles (MFA 2015), and Ryan Schroeder (MFA 2015) participated in a six-week Artist-in-Residence Program on the University of Shanghai campus. At the end of the residency all four artists participated in the group exhibition Mutual Interests 3 Cross Culture Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery at… Read More
AN INTERVIEW WITH SENIOR CRITIC JUDY FOX By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015) “It’s hard to say life is small, delicate, and vulnerable unless you can show the real size of life,” says New York Academy of Art’s newest Senior Critic Judy Fox. On September 17th, Fox discussed the presence of abstraction in sculpture with renowned abstract sculptor and Pace artist… Read More
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