Jessica Vollrath Born in 1984 to an African American father and a Mexican mother, Vollrath grew up in a uniquely diverse household with 11 siblings, a Mennonite background, and a homeschool education. She discovered her love of painting at around the age of 8, spending her free time experimenting with various art supplies her mother found at garage sales. At… Read More
The Chubb Post-Graduate Fellowship is the highest honor the New York Academy of Art can bestow on its students. Under the program, the Fellows have the opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of their artistic prowess while serving as teaching assistants and mentors to a new crop of talented figurative artists. Chubb Fellows also receive studio accommodations, exhibition… Read More
In 1995 my parents bought an 18th century clapboard house on Bowie Hill, a hamlet of a few houses above a tidal marsh, in the very small outpost of Spruceville, in the tiny village of Popham in the not at all large town of Phippsburg, which is on a Peninsula southeast of Bath on the coast of Maine. My mother… Read More
Andrew Sendor is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. Sendor is most recognized for his extraordinary facility in representational painting that serves to illuminate his ongoing engagement with the power of the imagination. The artist introduces us to fictional characters in storylines whose genesis derives from a unique creative process: Sendor scripts, produces, directs, and documents… Read More
Keith Timmons Lecture Series Organized by Clifford Owens, Director of Critical Studies, New York Academy of Art This lecture series is supported by Keith Timmons, a Baltimore-based art collector, to convene Black artists, scholars, curators, and critics at the New York Academy of Art during the 2024 – 2025 academic year. Robert Pruitt’s (Houston, TX, b.1975) art practice centers on rendering large scale figurative portraits. He projects into… Read More
Laura Frazure is an artist and educator with a primary focus on the study and practice of sculptural figuration and human anatomy. She is a modeler and inventor of human morphologies with the inspiration or generative material for her work coming from a wide range of sources. These include literature, popular culture, corporate and social media, art history and… Read More
Join historian and curator Margarita Lila Rosa and Senior Critic Dexter Wimberly for a lively online discussion on how artists can create impactful social media content on Instagram. Social media algorithms are constantly changing and formats are forever shifting. Is it possible to create authentic content and still garner the likes, comments, and follows demanded by greedy algorithms? What does… Read More
Jane Dickson has been exhibiting her paintings, drawings, and prints in museums and galleries domestically and internationally for two decades. She frequently works with unusual surfaces such as Astroturf, sandpaper, vinyl, or carpet to exploit the implicit references and the textural possibilities these materials offer. Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art… Read More
Kylie Manning is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Both art teachers, Manning’s parents often moved their home in Juneau, Alaska, to various regions in Mexico for extended periods. Manning’s work is heavily informed by the atmospheres, latitudes, and colors present in the various geographies of her childhood, where she witnessed the impacts of social, political, and economic change…. Read More
Join us for an in-person Conversation with the Critics! This discussion about art, culture, and community in New York City will be moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly. Heather Bhandari Program Director, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Heather Bhandari (she/her) is known for her work as a curator, writer, educator, and artist advocate. Prior to joining… Read More
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