Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

Erik Parker Artist Talk

Erik Parker was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1968. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts from SUNY Purchase in 1998. Parker has been awarded several honors throughout his career, including the Durhurst Family Scholarship (1997(, Rose Scholarship (1997), and the Rema Hort-Mann Foundation Grant… Read More

Francis Cunningham Artist Talk

Born in New York City in 1931, Cunningham grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts where he studied art with Ben Shahn. He graduated from Harvard College in 1953 and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He returned to New York and studied painting with Edwin Dickinson and drawing and anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students… Read More

Jago Artist Talk

Jago is an eclectic artist and sculptor, whose works are distinguished by their technical mastery, expressive exuberance, and vigorously in-depth psychological characterizations. Drawing on his study of the great renaissance and baroque masters, his work is born of continuous research of material, and thematic synthesis within a complex cultural and conceptual framework. Nicknamed the Social Artist, Jago has succeeded in… Read More

Creating Visual Histories: the Role of Art History Today with Yasmeen Siddiqui and Alpesh Kantilal Patel

November 7: Creating Visual Histories: the Role of Art History Today: Sharon Louden moderates a conversation with Yasmeen Siddiqui and Alpesh Kantilal Patel as to how artists become part of art history today. How can art history be relevant and be a bridge into the public realm?   Yasmeen Siddiqui is the founder of Minerva Projects, an incubator space launched… Read More

Summer Exhibition 2018

  The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce its 12th annual Summer Exhibition, a juried show at Flowers Gallery featuring nearly 80 works of painting, drawing and sculpture by Academy alumni, faculty and students. The works were selected from over 650 submissions, a record number, by a jury comprised of Brent Beamon, Director of Flowers Gallery New… Read More

2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition

  MFA Class of 2018 Emily Acheson-Adams Walker Augustyniak Mary Ball Aidan Barker-Hill Carlos Bautista Amanda Borosavage Katie Bosch Yang Cao Emily Carrig Herbert B. Danielson Shiqing Deng Lou Eberhard Emily Ezell Michael Fusco Cesar Gabriotti Robyn Gibson Christina Lucia Giuffrida Lucy Han Zachary Lank Courtney Lindhorst Sirun Maloney María Elena Manero Victoria Martinotti Lauren Maxwell Alexandra Mirzayantz Ayna Musayeva… Read More

Forensic Sculpture 2018

The New York Academy of Art’s Forensic Sculpture Workshop, created in 2015, is the result of a unique partnership between the Academy and the New York City Office of the Medical Examiner, in which art students used skulls from actual “cold cases” to recreate the faces of the victims, in the hope of identifying unknown persons. For the week-long sculpture… Read More

21c Museums Chief Curator Alice Stites

Alice Gray Stites is Museum Director and Chief Curator of 21c Museum Hotels. A multi-venue museum located in Louisville, Cincinnati, Bentonville, Durham, Lexington, Oklahoma City, and Nashville, 21c was founded by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, collectors and preservationists who are committed to expanding the audience for contemporary art. Stites curates exhibitions, site-specific installations, and a range of cultural… Read More