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2017 Chubb Fellows Exhibition

Posted on August 21, 2017

Featuring work by painters Benjamin Craig and Sophia Kayafas and draughtswoman Valérie Gilbert, this exhibition marks the beginning of each artist’s promising career and the culmination of their year-long fellowships. Each year, the Academy selects three outstanding graduates of its MFA program as Chubb Fellows. The fellowship, sponsored by Chubb, is the highest honor the Academy bestows, and is given to the three graduates who exemplify the Academy’s mission of valorizing technical skill in the service of creating vital contemporary art.

: Benjamin Craig (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Benjamin Craig (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Valerie Gilbert (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

: Sophia Kayafas (MFA 2016, Fellow 2017)

Artist Talk: Joan Semmel

Posted on August 20, 2017

Joan Semmel (b. New York, 1932) is a painter who has centered her practice around issues of the body, from desire to aging, as well as those of identity and cultural imprinting. She studied at the Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and the Art Student’s League of New York. In the 1960s, Semmel began her painting career in Spain and South America, where she experimented with abstraction. She returned to New York in the early 1970s, when her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes in response to pornography, popular culture, and concerns around representation. Her practice traces the transformation that women’s sexuality has seen in the last century, and emphasizes the possibility for female autonomy through the body.

Joan Semmel’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2016); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2014); Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany (2013); Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2013); Jewish Museum, New York (2010); Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, The Netherlands (2009); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007); National Museum of Scotland, Edinburg (2007); and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2006); among others. Semmel’s paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Orange County Museum of Art, CA; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; the Jocelyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the Jewish Museum, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2013), Anonymous Was a Woman (2008), and National Endowment for the Arts awards (1985 and 1980). She is Professor Emeritus of Painting at Rutgers University.

Sharon Louden in Conversation with Hunter O’Hanian

Posted on August 20, 2017

Hunter O’Hanian joined College Art Association in July 2016 as the organization’s Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to joining CAA, Hunter was the director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Previously, he served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement and executive director of the Foundation for Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the president of Colorado’s Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and executive director of the largest residency program for emerging artists and writers in the US, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Hunter has an undergraduate degree from Boston College and a law degree from Suffolk University School of Law. With a long history of community and non-profit volunteerism, Hunter was the board chair of the Alliance of Artists Communities, the organization of artist’s residencies throughout the US.

His honors include an honorary doctorate of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston, a fully endowed fellowship named in his name at the Fine Arts Work Center, a fund established in his name to acquire art work by diverse artists at the Leslie-Lohman Museum and a 2016 Impact Award from New York’s Gay City News.

Artist Talk: Linden Frederick

Posted on August 20, 2017

Linden Frederick grew up in Perth, New York and studied at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and Academia de Belle Arte in Florence, Italy.

Frederick paints in oils on linen, creating realistic, sensitive and almost narrative landscape and still life paintings. His paintings are nocturnal visions of rural and small-town America, and imbued with a rich sense of mystery, both ominous and sublime.

Since moving to Maine in 1989, he has been included in exhibitions at the Farnsworth, Ogunquit and Portland museums of art in Maine and in gallery exhibitions in Maine, New York, Texas, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania. He is represented by Forum Gallery in New York.

Artist Talk: Jenny Morgan

Posted on August 20, 2017

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1982, Jenny Morgan holds a BFA from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Colorado in 2003. Jenny then went on to finish her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2008. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York, London, Colorado, Utah and Indiana; in numerous group exhibitions including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. and the 92Y Tribeca, New York; and internationally with galleries in London and Sweden. Her most recent exhibition “Skin Deep” was a 10-year retrospective held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her work is represented in the collections of the museums and universities such as Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Purdue University Art Gallery, University of Maryland’s Stamp Student Union Art Collection, New Mexico State University’s University Art Gallery Collection, as well as major private collections throughout the United States and abroad.

She has appeared in numerous publications including New York Times, New York Magazine, Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Art LTD, The Village Voice, The Denver Post, and New American Paintings. Her work has been the subject of six artist monographs, including Jenny Morgan: How To Find A Ghost (2013) authored by Benjamin Genocchio. Additionally, Morgan has realized several portraiture commissions for publications including The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine.

Jenny is currently living and working in New York City.

A Conversation with the Critics: Sharon Louden talks with Yasmeen Siddiqui, Jessica Lynne, Stephanie Cash and Jason Stopa

Posted on August 20, 2017

Yasmeen Siddiqui is the founder of Minerva Projects, an incubator space in Denver, Colorado, that is tailored for artists and curators who seek to contextualize and historicize their ideas in an environment that encourages experimentation and new possibilities. Minerva Projects is committed to clarifying, by accurately describing and theorizing, the practices of artists and curators through engaging with leading thinkers and writers who animate its traveling exhibitions program and the Minerva Press book series. Siddiqui is also a writer and curator; pasts subjects have included Do Ho Suh, Consuelo Castañeda, Hassan Khan, Linda Ganjian, Pia Lindman, Lara Baladi, Mary Carothers, Matt Lynch and Chris Vorhees, and Mel Charney. Her writing has appeared on Hyperallergic and in ART PAPERS, the Cairo Times, Medina Magazine, Flash Art, Modern Painters, NKA and The Brooklyn Rail, and in books and exhibition catalogues including: Fault Lines Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes. inIVA, London, 2003; A Contingent Object of Research. Storefront Books, New York, 2010; Do Ho Suh; On Architecture. Melvin Charney a Critical Anthology. Edited by Louis Martin. Montreal: McGill — Queen’s University Press, 2013.

Jessica Lynne is co-founder and editor of ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. She received her B.A. in Africana Studies from NYU and has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Art21 and The Cue Foundation, Callaloo, and The Center for Book Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Aperture, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and Kinfolk. Currently, Jessica serves as the Manager of Development and Communication at Recess.

Stephanie Cash is the Executive Editor of BURNAWAY, a nonprofit online magazine covering art in the South. She has twice served as Interim Executive Director, taking on the additional roles of fundraising, grant writing, and advertising sales. From 1993 to 2012, Cash was a staff editor at Art in America, most recently serving as News Editor. When she started as an assistant in 1993, they still looked things up in books and used floppy discs. Marriage took her to Atlanta in 2012, where she wrote for ArtsATL, Art in America, Photograph and others before becoming the Editor of BURNAWAY in late 2013. She misses working in print, but wholeheartedly embraces online media.

Jason Stopa is painter living in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Indiana University and his MFA from Pratt Institute. Recent exhibitions: “Witches & Dudes” at Galleri Kant in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a contributing writer to Art in America, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute and The New Hampshire Institute of Art.

Leipzig Residency 2017

Posted on August 1, 2017

During the summer of 2017 Atalanta Arden-Miller (MFA 2018), Aidan Barker-Hill (MFA 2018), Naomi Nakazato (MFA 2018), and Arngrimur Sigurdsson (MFA 2018) participated in a two-month Artist-in-Residence Program hosted by Leipzig International Art Programme, in Leipzig, Germany.

The Academy’s Leipzig residency is made possible by the New York Academy Travel Fund, the Villore Foundation and Trustees Gordon Bethune and Eric Fischl.

: Atalanta Arden-Miller (MFA 2018)

: Atalanta Arden-Miller (MFA 2018)

: Atalanta Arden-Miller (MFA 2018)

: Aidan Barker-Hill (MFA 2018)

: Aidan Barker-Hill (MFA 2018)

: Naomi Nakazato (MFA 2018)

: Naomi Nakazato (MFA 2018)

: Naomi Nakazato (MFA 2018)

Academy Summer Residencies 2017: Leipzig

Posted on June 27, 2017

Our first Summer Residencies dispatch comes from Naomi Nakazoto MFA 2018, who is spending the summer in Leipzig, Germany as part of the Leipzig International Artists Programme.

First day studio setup

The first moments after arriving at the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei are overwhelming.

Despite researching previous recipients’ photos, Google maps and images, anything related I could find, I couldn’t have anticipated that the Spinnerei complex carries a profound presence of its own. You enter through Halle 18–a seemingly eternal corridor with reverberations and blips of unmarked wall–and into the Leipzig International Artists Programme space. There, the rooms can almost be defined by the large, double-pane windows and the light they allow through. Undeterred by the incredible echos, the spaces carry a quietness: there is the sense that if its residents simply left, the rooms would remain in that state forever.

Once the semester finished, I immediately wrote down some objectives I had for my time here. There is a tendency for my decision-making to be easily swayed by other artists’ approaches, and with some guidelines, there would be something to come back to each morning before painting. Working amongst other LIA, Spinnerei, and Leipzig artists as a whole presents a healthy challenge for my investigative perspective. The biggest difficulty here has been stepping away from painting in the studio, as time has been such a scant luxury in New York.

Exploring Objects and Painting

The work I’ve been doing here in Leipzig keeps returning to a particular sensation I have when I visit family in Japan. It will be a windless day and I’ll walk through a park with lush vegetation and scattered mossy shrines, when there is the feeling of a presence, neither benign nor malevolent, watching me. Whoever or whatever it is, I feel the same shadow while rambling through the forested areas in Leipzig, particularly where man-made structures meet nature’s slow advance. I’m invested in depicting this quiet growth, a low spiritual drone, juxtaposed with imagery and objects that represent the constructed and artificial.

Oil Paint Sketch

The other New York Academy of Art residents and myself are currently working towards our first critique with Justus Jager, which will be held in about a week. When not working in studio, we can be found attending openings in the Spinnerei, browsing the incredible Boesner’s supplies, running along the canal, and grabbing a Ur-Krostitzer beer on Karl Heine Straße.

Second floor of an abandoned mill along the Karl Heine canal

Second floor of an abandoned mill along the Karl Heine canal

About Face

Posted on May 26, 2017

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