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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.

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

 

 

 

Featured Artists
John Alexander

Steven Assael

Scott Avett

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Berenice Bell

Margaret Bowland

Monica Cook

Will Cotton

Allan Saint Denis

Peter Drake

Richard Dupont

Matthew Alfonso Durante

Nicole Eisenman

Heidi Elbers

Eric Fischl

Audrey Flack

Steve Forster

Nick Gebhart

Ralph Gibson

Alonsa Guevara

 

 Lyle Ashton Harris

Jacob Hayes

Mark Heming

Patty Horing

Judith Hudson

Sara Issakharian

Yung Jake

Edgar Jerins

Alex Katz

Sophia Kayafas

David Kratz

James Linkous

Damian Loeb

Liz Markus

Kim McCarty

Michael Meadors

Steve Mumford

Gary Murphy

James Nares

Alice Neel

Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo

 Rebecca Orcutt

Eric Pedersen

Naudline Pierre

Larry Rivers

Randall Rosenthal

Tony Scherman

Dana Schutz

Andrew Sendor

Cindy Sherman

Bernardo Siciliano

Laurie Simmons

Billy Sullivan

Mickalene Thomas

Phillip Thomas

Jorge Vascano

Anna Wakitsch

Mitra Walter

Tun Ping Wang

Lucy Winton

Dustin Yellin

2017 Summer Exhibition

Posted on May 25, 2017

Curated by
Matthew Flowers, Managing Director, Flowers Gallery
Andrew Russeth, Executive Editor, ARTNews
Joyce Varvatos, Art Advisor

2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Posted on April 28, 2017

 

Giverny and Mexico Residency 2017

Posted on April 25, 2017

Artist in Residence Program in Giverny

During the summer of 2016 Matthew Durante (MFA 2017), Naudline Pierre (MFA 2017), Kristina Reddy (MFA 2017), and Jorge Vasquez (MFA 2017) participated in a three-week Artist-in-Residence Program at the Terra Foundation for American Art-Europe. The foundation is located in the village of Giverny, France, next to Monet’s house and gardens. Each Giverny residency recipient also received an additional travel stipend from the Jason Talley (MFA 2008) Scholarship Fund. The Academy’s Giverny Residency Program is made possible by the New York Academy Travel Fund, the Villore Foundation, and Academy Trustee Emeritus Gordon Bethune.

Artist in Residence Program in Mexico

Maya Mason (MFA 2017) participated in the Belle Artes Residency Artist-in-Residence Program in Mexico City, Mexico in the summers of 2016. The Bellas Artes Residency is made possible by the generous support of Stephen Henderson and James LaForce.

 

Art New York 2017

Posted on April 24, 2017

 

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present “Inside Out”, a special exhibition at the 2017 Art New York art fair, on view from May 3 – 7 at Pier 94 in New York, during Frieze Week. This is the third year that the Academy will be exhibiting at Art New York, part of Art Miami Fairs.

“Inside Out” features over 30 paintings, drawings and sculpture on the theme of interiors and exteriors, created by alumni of the Academy. The works in “Inside/Out” encompass both literal and psychological spaces, from depictions of literal landscapes and street scenes to aspirational dream-places and interiors of the mind.

Featured artists include James Adelman (MFA 2014), Tamalin Baumgarten (MFA 2015), Joao Brandao (MFA 2013), Jaclyn Brown (MFA 2009), Claire Cushman (MFA 2015), Marcelo Daldoce (MFA 2016), Adam Lupton (MFA 2016), Elisabeth McBrien (MFA 2014), Reisha Perlmutter (MFA 2015), Laura Peturson (MFA 2005), Ciara Rafferty (MFA 2016), Nicolas V. Sanchez (MFA 2013, Fellow 2014), Sarah Schlesinger (MFA 2015, Fellow 2016), Alex Smith (MFA 2015), Mitra Walter (MFA 2006), and Jingyi Wang (MFA 2016).

For more information on Art New York, including opening hours, directions and ticketing, please visit artnyfair.com.

The Representation of Jewels in European Painting

Posted on April 6, 2017

Since the Renaissance, painters illuminated their masterpieces with the most beautiful jewelry and gemstones of their time. The art of the jewelers is thus revealed by paintings, which are sometimes the last witnesses of long lost jewels. Art historians Inezita Gay-Eckel and Gislain Aucremanne, professors at L’ÉCOLE: The School of Jewelry Arts, will discuss painterly technique, choice of embellishment and revealing the art of the jewelers, at a special reception and talk presented by Van Cleef & Arpels. The reception and talk are open to the public but an RSVP is required, you can rsvp to rsvp@lecolevancleefarpels.com.