Author Archives: jelm

Winter Fever

A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011)A new year of art is upon us. Though it may have gotten off to a slow start; blame the blizzards, there are some exciting things on the horizon. So shovel yourself out of your winter doldrums and go see these shows. Donald Judd Pace has several formidable artists currently showing; Tara Donovan is… Read More

Lecture: Jeanne Silverthorne

  Jeanne Silverthorne, Nightshade, courtesy McKee Gallery Jeanne Silverthorne is an artist who lives and works in New York. She is best known for sculptures cast in rubber, but her installations often include photographs, videos and kinetic elements as well. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art,… Read More

Fellows: John O’Reilly

From Columbus, OH, O’Reilly received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design. After a year of attending New York Academy of Art, he was awarded a residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in 2009 and exhibited there. John’s work has been in group shows at galleries including Danese‘s”Other as Animal,” curated by April Gornik in Chelsea, New York City…. Read More

College Art Association NY AREA MFA EXHIBITION

  Participating Artists: Emily Davis Adams Kiley Ames-Klein Elina Anatole Corinne Beardsley Demetrio Belenky Ramona Bradley Aleah Chapin Diana Corvelle Cara De Angelis Alexandra Finkelchtein Charlotte Foyle Jeffrey Gipe Jason Sho Green Ian Healy Adam LaMothe Shanga Manning Gary Murphy Monica Olsen Guno Park Joseph Ventura Tyler Vouros Shawn Yu

From the distance of a map-maker

By Emily Adams, MFA 2011The recent talk of censorship in the arts has me thinking more about the relationship between map-maker and mapped; gardener and garden; artist and artwork. I came across early survey maps of the American West designed by the US Department of the Interior. A neatly organized drawing carefully, lawfully delineates a landscape of an area of… Read More

Facebook, Curator of Culture

As the Academy makes its first bold forays into the expanding worlds of social media, we find ourselves reeling from a recent exchange with facebook, and on the edge of an interesting debate.  It’s not “Contemporary vs. Traditional†or “Disegno vs. Colore.† It’s much more universal and it drives to the heart of the age-old dialogue in visual culture: What… Read More

Elizabeth Sackler Lecture

Elizabeth A. Sackler is an arts activist and a public historian who lectures and writes on ethics and morality in the art market and beyond. The idea of a place, a center, bound to equality without artificial constraints led her to found the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, home of “The Dinner Party†by… Read More

Five Ways to Create Space in your Painting

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to share a new note by Hilary Harkness. Regularly posting her “Notes from Studio Lockdown,” Hilary blogs with us as she prepares for her upcoming exhibition in May at Mary Boone Gallery in New York City. Follow her on this blog for sneak peeks into her studio practice! Dear friends, Recently I was… Read More

January preVIEW

Each month, Librarian & Archivist Holly Frisbee highlights articles, reviews, and interviews from the current issues of our periodical collection. Take a moment to check them out and let us know what you think! Bo Bartlett Anderson, Kristen. “Zero Hour: The Art of Jean-Pierre Roy.†Hi-Fructose. Jan 2011. 31-41. An interview with academy faculty Jean-Pierre Roy. Lots of pictures. Gormley,… Read More