Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

David Antonio Cruz is a multidisciplinary artist. Cruz fuses painting, video, and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum. Recent residencies include the… Read More

Nathaniel Mary Quinn in conversation with Dexter Wimberly from New York Academy of Art on Vimeo.   Photo: Kyle Dorosz. Courtesy the artist. Each of us is a cacophony of experience. Not just a seamless self. —Nathaniel Mary Quinn In his collage-like composite portraits derived from sources both personal and found, Nathaniel Mary Quinn probes the relationship between visual memory… Read More

Jennie Lamensdorf is an arts worker based in San Francisco, CA. Her work focuses on expanding audiences for the art of our time by bringing challenging and engaging work to non-traditional exhibition spaces because art has the power to encourage thoughtfulness, empathy, and creative problem solving. Lamensdorf is the Bay Area Lead of the global Facebook Art Department. The program… Read More

Amanda Jurist is a board-certified Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who specializes in child, adolescent, family and adult psychotherapy. For the past 15 years, she has worked with children and families in a variety of capacities as an educator, advocate and behavioral modification specialist. Amanda has leveraged these experiences and, over the past four years, has further developed and employed her expertise as… Read More

Monks’s paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions including “Intimacy” at the Kunst Museum in Ahlen, Germany and “Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009” at the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts, New York. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including the Savannah College of Arts, the Somerset Art Association and the… Read More

Robin F. Williams (b. 1984) utilizes a variety of techniques, including oil, acrylic, airbrush, marbling, and the staining of raw canvas, to create figurative paintings that are at once confounding and familiar. Challenging systemic conventions of representations of women in art history, commercial advertising, and pop culture, Williams refers to her female figures as “zombie nudes” – figures that are… Read More

  Eric Fischl (b. 1948, New York City) is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. His paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well… Read More