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Posted on March 3, 2021



 

Ticket Packages

• An exclusive luncheon for up to 4 guests at the Van Cleef & Arpels Flagship on Fifth Avenue. Enjoy a 3 course luncheon in the privacy of the Maison’s second floor, prepared by Daniel Boulud’s Feast & Fêtes

• Two prized seats for a course of your choice at the famed L’Ecole School of Jewelry Arts in Paris.

• Two named scholarships for incoming Academy artists for 2021-22, including one finished painting, drawing or sculpture from each of your recipients

• $1,000 credit towards purchase of Tribeca Ball artwork

• Private, guided tour of new exhibitions in Tribeca or Chelsea with leading curators in 2021

• Private Virtual Drawing Party on Zoom with leading Academy Alumni Artists
for you and up to ten friends

• Private champagne tour of artists’ studios at the Academy anytime in 2021

• Commemorative Tribeca Ball Eric Fischl Academy Tote Bag

 
• A private tour of the Van Cleef & Arpels Flagship on Fifth Avenue, accompanied by a champagne toast.

• Two prized seats for a course of your choice at the famed L’Ecole School of Jewelry Arts in Paris.

• One named scholarship for an incoming Academy artist for 2021-22, including one
finished painting, drawing or sculpture from your recipient

• $500 credit towards purchase of Tribeca Ball artwork

• Private, guided tour of new exhibitions in Tribeca or Chelsea with leading curators in 2021

• Private Virtual Drawing Party on Zoom with leading Academy Alumni Artists
for you and up to ten friends

• Private champagne tour of artists’ studios at the Academy anytime in 2021

• Commemorative Tribeca Ball Eric Fischl Academy Tote Bag

 

• Invitation to Virtual Group Drawing Party on Zoom with leading Academy Alumni Artists

• Private champagne tour of artists’ studios at the Academy anytime in 2021

• Commemorative Tribeca Ball Eric Fischl Academy Tote Bag

 

• Private tour of artists’ studios at the Academy anytime in 2021

• Commemorative Tribeca Ball Eric Fischl Academy Tote Bag

 

Student Curatorial Committee Exhibition: Treading Lightly

Posted on January 29, 2021

 

The Student Curatorial Committee is a group of student volunteers that organizes onsite Academy exhibitions twice a year.

Prior experience is not required to participate, and it is a great opportunity to learn about how to produce an exhibition from start to finish. All students are encouraged to participate in the SCC that meets as needed during the year.

 

On view January 29 – April 4, 2021

Closed to the public

 

Spring 2021 Members

Dayana Beisenova, Jacob Child, Riham ElSadany, Sonja Fuenzalida, Leo Kang, Elizabeth Little, Bryan Pennington, Kylee Snow

 

Click Here to view the Fall 2020 Student Curatorial Exhibition, “Parallels”

 

New York Academy of Art

111 Franklin Street

New York, NY 10013

inquiries exhibitions@nyaa.edu

 

Gallerist Panel with Esther Kim Varet, David Klein and Monique Meloche

Posted on January 21, 2021

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 Klein graduated from the University of Michigan in 1988 with a BA in Art History. Klein opened his eponymous gallery in 1990 in Birmingham, Michigan.  At its inception the gallery worked closely with artists associated with Ivan Karp and OK Harris Works of Art in New York City.  Over time David Klein Gallery developed its own contemporary exhibition program which included Detroit based artists as well as artists with national and international reputations.  Klein also produced exhibitions of 20th Century American and European artists including Jean Dubuffet, Al Held, Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, Bob Thompson, Jack Tworkov and Tom Wesselmann.

In 2014 the gallery was invited to join the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and in 2015 Klein opened a second location on Washington Boulevard in the heart of downtown Detroit. The gallery schedule includes an average of eight exhibitions a year in addition to participating in major art fairs such as The Armory Show, Art Miami and Expo Chicago.

Klein was a member of the DIA’s Founders Junior Counsel in the early 1990s and was a longtime Governor of the Cranbrook Art Academy and Museum and chairman of the Museum Committee. He also serves on the Membership Committee of the ADAA.

David Klein and his wife, jewelry designer Kathryn Ostrove, live with their two sons, Benjamin and Gabriel in Birmingham, Michigan.

Monique Meloche founded her eponymous gallery in Chicago’s West Loop in 2001 with an international roster of emerging artists working in all media. Our program has been diverse and inclusive since its inception, and we continue to be a bellwether for artistic talents early or under-recognized in their careers. The gallery has grown from being locally recognized as one of the best in Chicago to being respected internationally with our artists collected by public institutions worldwide.

 

Originally from Windsor, Canada, Meloche began her art career at the MCA Chicago upon completing her master’s degree in Art History and Theory at the School of the Art Institute. After six years as MCA Assistant Curator, she went on to fill directorial roles at Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Kavi Gupta Gallery (then Vedanta Gallery), Chicago. In 2000, she decided to embark on her own, inaugurating her gallery venture with HOMEWRECKER, an ambitious group exhibition featuring artists such as Marcel Dzama, Hans Op De Beeck, Hernan Bas, Luis Guispert, Carla Arocha and Karen Reimer (the latter two continue to be presented by the gallery) at her own private residence, before moving on to her first West Loop location in 2001.

 

Meloche has consistently presented conceptually challenging programming in Chicago and at art fairs internationally with an emphasis on institutional outreach. The gallery’s focus is on discovering and fostering emerging artists like Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald, Ebony G. Patterson, Sanford Biggers, and Brendan Fernandes – bringing them to the attention of collectors, curators, institutions and global audiences. Indeed, the gallery presented Johnson’s first solo show in 2003 when the artist was still in graduate school at SAIC.

 

The gallery’s forward-looking, curatorial commitment to presenting rigorous, socially minded work by young and mid-career artists has not only fostered exciting artistic talent by some of the most important artists working today, it has also provided a nourishing incubator for arts professionals. Former intern Ruba Katrib has since gone on to become Curator at MoMA PS1, after her time as Curator at SculptureCenter, New York, and Associate Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Whitney Tassie worked from a gallery intern to Director and is now Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City. Former Director Allison Glenn is now Associate Curator at Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AK, after working on Prospect.4, New Orleans, as Curatorial Liaison.

 

In addition to her role at the helm of the gallery, Meloche founded Gallery Weekend Chicago in 2011 as antidote to the shuttering of Art Chicago (which has since been resurrected as EXPO Chicago, a fair in which the gallery regularly participates). Meloche passed on the reins of GWC to colleague Michael Hall, who has transformed it into an annual Chicago event associated with other Gallery Weekends around the world. Meloche has also been an active supporter and philanthropic leader at several local institutions, including the MCA Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and The Renaissance Society. She lives near the gallery in Ukrainian Village, with her husband and gallery partner, Evan Boris, with whom she has amassed and continues to develop a dynamic personal collection of art by many of the artists she has worked with and championed over the years.

Artist Talk: Rona Pondick & Robert Feintuch

Posted on January 21, 2021


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; Cincinnati Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others.

Her sculptures have been included in over 200 group exhibitions, including numerous biennales worldwide: the Whitney Biennial, Lyon Biennale, Johannesburg Biennale, Sonsbeek, and Venice Biennale. Her work is in the collections of many institutions worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY); Brooklyn Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas); San Francisco Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art (Sculpture Garden) among others
Rona Pondick has received numerous awards and grants, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, Anonymous Was A Woman, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Cultural Department of the City of Salzburg, Kunstlerhaus, Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic Arts Grant, and others.

Robert Feintuch (b. 1953, Jersey City) lives and works in New York. He studied at Cooper Union (B.F.A. 1974) and the Yale University School of Art (M.F.A. 1976). His work has been included in numerous international group exhibitions including shows at The Peggy Guggenheim Foundation (Venice), Ca’ Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna (Venice), Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto), The Rupertinum (Salzburg), Museum für modern zeitgenössische Kunst (Bolzano), The National Academy Museum, (New York), The Addison Gallery of American Art, (Andover), and in the Venice Biennale. Feintuch has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Bogliasco, Rockefeller and Leube Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Parallels & Peripheries Curators and Artists in Conversation

Posted on January 21, 2021


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 world while attempting to negotiate issues of race, identity, visibility, and invisibility in a time of social volatility.

Click here to view the PARALLELS & PERIPHERIES Catalogue
and go to https://nyaa.edu/parallels-peripheries for more info.

Residencies Panel with Chris Carroll, Skowhegen, Philip Himberg, MacDowell, and Sharon Louden, Chautauqua

Posted on January 21, 2021


Christopher Carroll is the Program Manager at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture where he has been responsible for the logistical and technical support of the School’s application and programming efforts for the past 10 years. He also serves as the manager of the School’s Media Lab and Lecture Series during its nine-week summer program in Maine. A visual artist, Christopher first joined the Skowhegan community when he was a participant of the program in 2008. He earned a Master of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Virginia Commonwealth University. His work was recently exhibited at the Suburban in Milwaukee; Practice Gallery in Philadelphia; Coppey Gallery in Missouri; and The Hathaway Gallery in Atlanta. His most recent exhibition includes “Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson.

Philip Himberg is the Executive Director of the MacDowell Colony and oversees the creative mission as well as the financial well-being of the nation’s first multidisciplinary residency program. Himberg arrived at MacDowell in May of 2019 from The Sundance Institute where he spent 23 years guiding all aspects of the Sundance Theatre Program, including its Theatre Labs and many satellite residency programs nationally, as well as globally – in several locations in East Africa, the Middle East and North Africa. Himberg is also a playwright, and his most recent play, Paper Dolls, had its world premiere at the Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln Theatre) in London in 2013 and U.S. premiere at Mosaic Theater in DC. He is a former member of the Tony Award Nomination Committee, served as past president of the Board of Theatre Communications Group and was a trustee of the Kiln. He is currently a member of the boar of Action for Hope, an NGO in Beirut that supports arts training for youngsters in refugee camps across the region. He has taught at NYU/ Tisch and the Yale Drama School. In addition to a B.A. from Oberlin College, Himberg holds a degree as a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, and previously was a practicing acupuncturist and herbalist.

Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, advocate for artists, editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books, and the Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution.

Foundations Panel with Gabriella Calandro, NYFA, Kate Gavriel, Two Trees, Helena Huang, and Art for Justice Fund

Posted on January 21, 2021

Gabriella Calandro is the Director of Grants and Curatorial Affairs at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and oversees the delivery of over $3.5 million in arts funding annually to artists across the US through NYFA awards and grants programs.

Throughout her career Gabriella has worked in the nonprofit arts sector in Australia and New York City holding positions in arts funding management, curatorial, marketing and museum audience development.

Gabriella is a graduate from the University of Melbourne, Australia and holds a Masters in Curatorial Studies.

Kate Gavriel is the Cultural Affairs Director at Two Trees Management Co, a family-owned, Brooklyn based real estate development firm founded in 1968 that currently owns and manages more than 6,000 apartments and 3 million square feet of office and retail space throughout New York City. Since 2011, she has worked with Two Trees to develop their arts- and education-focused philanthropic programs, engaging community stakeholders to create and support cultural programs and spaces that contribute to the prosperity of neighborhoods and local economies. These programs include curating public art commissions and cultural programming, developing cultural spaces, and providing affordable workspace for artists and arts nonprofits. In her professional experience working with artists, arts organizations and galleries, civic groups, and real estate developers, she advocates a holistic understanding of the artworld ecosystem and encourages partnerships and collaboration across industries. A Chicago native, Gavriel attended Wesleyan University (CT), and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

 

Helena Huang manages the Art for Justice Fund. Established by art philanthropist Agnes Gund in June 2017 and administered by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the $100 million, five-year fund is dedicated to ending mass incarceration in the United States through criminal justice grants in support of high-impact campaigns in the justice sector and the arts. The Ford Foundation is responsible for the Fund’s grant-making strategy, which focuses on bail reform, sentencing reform, and reducing legal barriers to reentry for people coming home from prison.

Helena has held leadership positions in both the foundation and advocacy world. She was a program manager for two national philanthropies for nearly 10 years: at the Open Society Foundation (1997-2002) and the JEHT Foundation (2002-06) where she worked in support of grassroots advocacy, fellowship programs, and public-private partnerships addressing criminal justice reform. Later, she co-founded and directed Oregon Voice, a state civic engagement organization that helped to pass the first automatic voter registration law in a US state. Before joining Ford in 2017, Helena served as senior director of Philanthropy and Communications for the State Voices Network in Washington, DC.

Helena holds an MPA from the Columbia School of International Affairs and a BA from Cornell University.

 

Anne Harris Artist Talk

Posted on January 21, 2021

Anne Harris has been painting slowly, and drawing quickly, variants of self-portraiture for the last thirty years. She has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery (NYC), DC Moore Gallery (NYC)and Nielsen Gallery (Boston), to theNational Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center forContemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards received include aGuggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.

Harris teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She heads the Riverside Art Center’s Exhibition Committee and has curated numerous exhibitions there. She is also the originator of The Mind’s I—a traveling expanding drawing conversation about the universality and malleability of self-perception and drawing. This project most recently took place at Espacio Andrea Brunson in Santiago, Chile (August 2019).

Harris lives with her family in Riverside, IL.On Wed, Ja

Public Art on Public Transit: Sandra Bloodworth, Director of the MTA Art & Design in conversation with Peter Drake

Posted on January 21, 2021

Funktional Vibrations (2015) © Xenobia Bailey, NYCT 34th Street–Hudson Yards Station.  Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Photo: Sid Tabak.

Sandra Bloodworth is Director of Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Arts & Design (A&D), the program responsible for visual and performing arts throughout the transit system. Sandra joined MTA Arts & Design as a manger in 1988 and has served as the director for 24 years. She has worked with hundreds of artists through A&D’s permanent art commissions, digital arts, graphic art, photography, poetry, musical performances and special programs, all of which are intended to engage riders, enrich stations, and encourage the use of mass transit.  Under Sandra’s leadership the A&D Percent for Art program has become one of the largest and most diverse collections of public art in the world.

Sandra is a recipient of the Gari Melchers Memorial Medal for furthering the profession of fine arts and was awarded the Fund for the City of New York’s Sloan Public Service Award in recognition of her work in the field of public art.  She is co-author of New York’s Underground Art Museum, published by the Monacelli Press. Sandra is a practicing artist and holds degrees in Art and Arts Education, including a B.S. from Mississippi College, an M.A. from the University of Mississippi and an M.F.A. from Florida State University. She has taught at Florida State University, the University of Mississippi and the Department of Art and Arts Professions graduate program at New York University, and frequently speaks on the topic of art in transit.