Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

 Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD) received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and was the recipient of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, a Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship, a Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, and… Read More

Roxanne Jackson is a ceramic artist and sculptor living in Brooklyn, NY. Her macabre works are black-humored investigations of the links between transformation, myth and pop-culture. Press for her work includes The New York Times, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Forbes, Metal Magazine, The Huffington Post, Artnet, The Observer, Gothamist, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Cool Hunting… Read More

 Born in London, England, in 1933 Mary Frank moved to the United States with her family in 1940. In the early 1950s she studied with Hans Hoffman and Max Beckmann. Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor, painter, photographer and gifted ceramic artist.  Without allegiance to any particular way of working or medium, Frank is fueled by her ever… Read More

Jori Finkel is a journalist who covers art from the West Coast for The New York Times and The Art Newspaper. Her writing has also been published in W magazine, Art in America, ARTnews, and Art+Auction magazine, where she was previously a senior editor in New York. She lectures regularly at museums and art fairs and also appears on NPR,… Read More

Esther Kim Varet is the founder of Various Small Fires, a gallery established in 2012 with locations in Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea. VSF focuses primarily on emerging and established American arts, in particular those with practices relating to social justice, climate activism, identity politics, and alternative modalities of visual art production and consumption. A native Detroiter, David… Read More

Rona Pondick was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. She studied at Yale University School of Art and received her MFA in 1977. Since 1984 she has had over 48 solo exhibitions of her work in museums and galleries internationally, including Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands; Rupertinum Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Salbzburg, Austria;… Read More

Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Robyn Gibson (MFA 2018) the exhibition is on view at the Academy February 10 – March 7, 2021. PARALLELS & PERIPHERIES: Practice + Presence is focused on how the New York Academy of Art’s BIPOC artistic community (i.e. students, faculty, alumni, and visiting critics) uses their practice and platform to assert their presence within the… Read More