By Catherine Howe, instructor at the Academy It was Sunday, 3:30 pm, December 12, the third and final day of Mid-Year Critiques at the Academy. I was sick at home, but instead of just thrashing about in a feverish “As if I could BE there” sensibility, I thought I would share some glimpses of the “Crit-ers” and the “Crit-ees” from the first… Read More
Security House, 2008-10, Wood veneer, shellac 93 X 122 inches Join us for the last Art & Culture lecture, given by contemporary marquetry artist, Alison Elizabeth Taylor. Well-known for reinvigorating the Renaissance craft of marquetry, or intarsia wood inlay, Taylor works in a medium once made popular during the unprecedented age of luxury of Louis XIV’s Court of Versailles…. Read More
The Academy’s 2nd Annual Holiday Party and Small Works Show December 10, 6:30 – 9:00 pm Please RSVP to deckthewalls@nyaa.edu A note from Academy President David Kratz: Dear Friends, Thanks to all of you who donated art to “Deck the Walls!” It’s thrilling to see such a wonderful show spring up almost spontaneously from everybody’s small works. It’s such a… Read More
by Emily Adams (MFA 2011) Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #92 (1976) Nearing the end of the fall semester, theses are being written and paintings are being refined for December’s mid-year mark. Last year, Sir Kenneth Clark’s The Nude was a required reading by this time. To be honest, I wasn’t so terribly thrilled about the book, but I recently finished… Read More
Don’t miss tomorrow night’s lecture by David Salle, an American painter who helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. David Salle, Angels in the Rain, 1998, oil and acrylic on canvas, 244 x 335 Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum… Read More
Dear Friends, Perhaps you’ve had a nice lunch and are now back in your studio revved up to create a masterpiece. You’ve got your tools laid out, a chunk of time to yourself and lots of great ideas to explore, and then it hits – despair. How do you tell if your artwork is good or bad? Indeed, are you… Read More
Gail Gregg is an artist/writer living in New York City. She is also a graduate of the New York Academy of Art. Gail made an extensive effort to interview artists, administrators and models from the Academy for her recent article, “Nothing Like the Real Thing†in ARTnews magazine. Featured in the article are Academy instructors Margaret Bowland, Judy Fox, Will… Read More
FXM, The Ill-Humored Man, 1771-83 Mark Mennin, adjunct faculty at the Academy, will speak about his writings on “Messerschmidt: An Accidental Visionary,” an article recently written for the Huffington Post. (Read more about it.) Mennin is a sculptor who is known mostly for his monumental granite carvings in landscape and architecture. His work has been featured in the New York… Read More
Dear Friends, Drawing can be a lovely activity, but the transition from planning a bacchanal on paper to painting in the fun bits on canvas can include arduous tasks. One could hand off these duties to an assistant, but doing them myself charges my subconscious for the last-minute flourishes that can make a painting come alive. I am happy to… Read More
installation view for “All the More Real” at the Parrish Art Museum Don’t miss tomorrow night’s lecture by Merrill Falkenberg, independent curator, writer and art advisor. With artist Eric Fischl of All the More Real, she co-curated a group exhibition on realism and hyperrealism at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. Ms. Falkenberg’s lecture will focus on intimacy,… Read More
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