A review by Maria Kozak, MFA 2011 Welcome back Everyone! School is in session and so is the fall season. Tonight don’t miss NYAA Senior Critic Vincent Desiderio’s opening at Marlborough in Chelsea. This haunting new series of paintings explores the subtle, underlying context of the human experience through exquisite brushwork and a profound technical narrative. Also opening in Chelsea,… Read More
Artwork (details) top to bottom: Maya Brodsky (MFA 2010, Fellow 2011), John O’Reilly (MFA 2010, Fellow 2011), Austin Park (MFA 2010, Fellow 2011)
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 After selecting a stone, a warm and pale white marble taking its name, “Statuario”, from its historical use, I was given a place to work and all the tools and advice necessary to extract form from stone. Seeing that I was basically just scaling up an existing work and transferring it into a different material,… Read More
The Academy is pleased to share a new ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT series on our blog, to showcase what our graduates are doing. Here, Doris Buehler, MFA 2000. What are you currently working on? I was been preparing for a Single Show at the Gallery Bachlechner, in Zürich, June 18th -31st July 2011. I showed a collection of sculptures, paintings, mixed media… Read More
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 I decided that it would be best to arrive in Italy prepared to start carving immediately. I have been developing a series of simple beeswax heads that hang off the wall. It seemed fitting to make a plaster cast of one of these pieces that I had already become very familiar with, and then attempt… Read More
The Academy is pleased to share a new ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT series on our blog to showcase what our graduates are doing. Here, Joan Benefiel & Jeremy Leichman, MFA 2007. St. Ignatius Commission What are you currently working on? Jeremy Leichman and I met at the Academy and are both sculptors. We have our own sculpture studio business together, Figuration LLC…. Read More
by Stephen Shaheen, MFA 2005 Shaheen and McCaffrey in Italy Over the decade since I finished my training as a sculptor in Italy, I have gone back as much as life permits. Part of my annual recharge in the bel paese has involved teaching. While completing my MFA at the New York Academy of Art, I was surprised by the number of colleagues who… Read More
by Quentin McCaffrey, MFA 2011 In the weeks after the dizzying and malnourished/sleepless whirlwind that is the ascension towards the ever-exciting TriBeCa Ball, one by one e-mails revealing those students selected for the abundance of scholarships, residencies and fellowships trickle down from the committees and faculty meetings in the sky and all students hope to read their name as they… Read More
Eric Fischl, a Senior Critic at the Academy, recommends this article. Eric is a Trustee and long-time champion of the school, and was recently honored at last year’s annual Take Home a Nude. Eric’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous international solo and major group exhibitions as well as publications. He is the founder, president… Read More
The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present the next installment in this new series on our blog. Eric Telfort, a 2009 graduate of the New York Academy of Art, blogs with us about “keeping the brushes wet.†Follow us as Eric writes about what it’s like to be a working artist. Continued from the last post: The artists… Read More
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