by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) Back for my second and final year at the Academy, I am greeted by Will Kurtz’s newspaper motorcycle woman, Neoplatonism and a fourth floor window studio. I returned from the Leipzig residency and subsequent backpacking trip in the German Alps feeling refreshed for the first day of school and with ideas buzzing rooted… Read More
Tuesday, September 21, 7:30 pm Artist Hilary Harkness lives in New York City and is represented by Mary Boone Gallery. Jerry Saltz, critic for The Village Voice, wrote about her figures: “Whatever they’re involved in, they ooze a bitchy demonic kinkiness, which makes looking at these paintings slippery fun.” Iowa Class, 14″ by 22″ oil/linen, 2003 All lectures are… Read More
by Jessie Brugger (MFA 2010) The hills are alive with the sound of music! Okay, wrong country, but it was a true story here in Giverny, too. The Musicians for the Chamber Music Festival moved into their residency a few days before we left… and we woke up to nature humming and classical musicians playing away. Don’t get me wrong, its no Tupac… Read More
Saya Woolfalk is a New York artist who re-imagines the world in multiple dimensions (sculpture, installation, painting, performance and video). She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Momenta Art; Performa09; and has been written about on Art21’s blog. With funding from… Read More
Tuesday, September 14, 7:30 pm Artist and art historian Isabelle Bonzom is a painter of the flesh. She will discuss her research, both as a painter and a scholar, on the representation of the flesh based on two iconographic characters: Judith and Salomé. Through dramatic images showing women with male heads, Bonzom will talk about the cutting of body, image… Read More
Wade Schuman, faculty instructor and guide on the Giverny residency at Terra Foundation, always finds interesting things! A “nice French toad.” Rheas, flightless birds similar to the ostrich, lounging by a stream. Artists in the Studio.
This fall, the Art & Culture Department brings another great lecture series to Wilkinson Hall. Join us Tuesdays at 7:30pm* as we bring inspiring historians, authors, artists and critics to our community. Here’s a first look at the exciting speakers on the roster so far: Isabelle Bonzom, Hilary Harkness, Wei Dong, Alexi Worth, Odd Nerdrum, Ross Bleckner, Kenneth Currie, David Salle,… Read More
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011) It’s the first week of school as well as the start of high season in NYC. Welcome to fall. Jean-Pierre Roy, A Wind Toward Off Dreams On Thursday night, Sept 9th, A Rational Spectacle opens at Rare Gallery in Chelsea featuring the work of NYAA’s adjunct faculty member Jean Pierre Roy. Roy’s luminescent… Read More
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