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Pricing your Artwork: A Primer for Emerging Artists

Posted on January 10, 2023

Pricing Your Artwork:
A Primer for Emerging Artists

Join us for an informative panel discussion about how artists can determine and rationalize the prices of their artwork, even at the early stages of their professional career. Moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly, this panel will explore some of the key factors artists should consider when thinking about pricing, as well as some of the psychological hurdles they may encounter during the process. Be sure to also register for our upcoming February 22 panel, Resale Royalties For Artists.

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Hilary Burt
Managing Director
SOCO Gallery

Hilary Burt is the Managing Director of SOCO Gallery, a contemporary art space based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before moving to Charlotte, Hilary worked as an Account Director and Strategist in design and branding, both in London, England and New York City, and was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute of Art & Design (New York, NY). In 2013 Hilary became an Adjunct Professor of Art History and Arts Leadership & Administration at Queens University (Charlotte, NC) and in 2017 she founded “The Sphere Series”, an organization dedicated to bringing global leaders in the arts to Charlotte to engage in thoughtful and relevant discussions on how arts and creativity can spark dialogue and promote social change. Hilary has a BA from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and a MPS from the Pratt Institute of Art & Design, (New York, NY).

 

Schwanda Rountree
Contemporary Art Consultant/Advisor, Rountree Art Consulting

Schwanda Rountree is an attorney and independent art consultant. Schwanda has worked with galleries domestically and internationally in placing contemporary art in museums and private collections. She currently serves as National Advisory Council Member of Creative Capital, Professional Arts Consultant for the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Collections Committee Member of the Ackland Art Museum, National Advisory Board Member at the Ackland Art Museum, and Accessions Committee Member of the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has also served as Advisory Panel Member of CulturalDC, an Executive Board Member of the Porter Colloquium on African American Art, and a member of ArtTable. She has been featured in Artsy’s “Inside My Collection” editorial profile and Artnet News.

 

 

Steven Sergiovanni
Founder
Steven Sergiovanni Art Advisory

Steven founded Steven Sergiovanni Art Advisory in 2015, focusing on living Contemporary artists in all mediums.  With over 20 years’ experience in the gallery world Steven was the former Director of Mixed Greens, a gallery established in the late 1990s to support emerging artists so they could gain a wider audience. Mixed Greens had a reputation as an approachable and inventive gallery where artists were given their first New York solo exhibitions. It was also a gallery who pioneered promoting artists online and in experimental spaces.

He is the co-founder of The Remix, a project-based curatorial team established to exhibit the work of underrepresented artists. The Remix’ first podcast will be released in Summer 2018. Sergiovanni’s experience as director, gallerist and dealer hinges on a continued methodology of transparency.

Steven started his career at Jack Shainman Gallery, and has since worked for several galleries including Charles Cowles, Holly Solomon and Andrea Rosen. He was the former Vice President of the Board of Directors for Visual AIDS, a Contemporary arts organization committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness. He regularly speaks at institutions such as Yale, Brown, FIT, NYU and New York Academy of Art. He is currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute, teaching Artist as Curator to MFA’s. Steven is a member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA). Steven holds a BA in Art History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, and a MA in Arts Administration from New York University.

 

 

 

Resale Royalties for Artists with Katarina Feder and Charlie Jarvis

Posted on January 9, 2023

Join Katarina Feder, Co-founder and CEO of ARSNL and Charlie Jarvis, Co-founder of Fairchain for an in-depth conversation about resale royalties, intellectual property, and the future of your artwork. This panel will be moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly.

 

Katarina Feder
Co-founder and CEO of ARSNL

Katarina Feder is a founder and CEO of ARSNL, a digital studio and marketplace born out of Artists Rights Society’s 35-year legacy. For the last five years, Feder has been Director of Business Development at Artists Rights Society. She maintains a monthly advice column on Artnet, “Know Your Rights,” where she answers questions on matters of intellectual property and more!‍‍

 

 

Charlie Jarvis
Co-founder Fairchain

Charlie Jarvis is the co-founder and Head of Growth at Fairchain. She is an entrepreneur, technologist and creative with a passion for art, culture and social justice. Previous to founding Fairchain, Jarvis studied Computer Science at Stanford and worked in engineering and product management roles at Google and Youtube Music. Jarvis is committed to building at the intersection of tech and creativity, while creating frameworks for lasting social change.

Artist Talk: Matt Hansel

Posted on January 8, 2023


 Matthew Hansel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from the Yale University school of Art. He has been featured extensively in solo exhibitions, including at The Hole, NY, USA (2021), Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy (2018) and PM/AM, London, UK (2017). Hansel has also featured in many group shows around the world, including at Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA (2021), Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, Germany (2020), PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2019), Sophia Contemporary, London, UK (2018) and Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece (2017).

 

Artist Talk: Carrie Ann Baade

Posted on January 8, 2023

Carrie Ann Baade’s oil paintings dialog with the past through complex iconography and imagery that quote from Renaissance and Baroque canvases. She constructs layered narratives that resemble fantastical parables as her compositions interlace the strange beauty in the unexpected, the uncanny, the disregarded, and the unconventional. Her work rejects a rational vision of life in favor of one that asserts the value of the subconscious. Her compositions, feminist and autobiographical, weave personal and classical symbology into narratives on mortality, sexuality, personal transformation, and the darker side of human nature.

Born 1974 in Louisiana, Baade received her MFA from University of Delaware in 2003 and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997, and she studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy in 1995-96. Her awards include the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist in Painting (2005–2006), a nomination for the United States Art Award (2007), the Florida State Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship (2009–2010) and a nomination for the, Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2012 and 2022). Over the past 25 years, she has shown in over 200 exhibitions and 25 solo exhibitions. Her work has been shown at: the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Museum of Art, the Pensacola Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, the Delaware Contemporary, Billy Shire Fine Arts and La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles, the Harwood Museum in Taos, the Warsaw Cultural Center, the Instituto de America de Santa Fe in Granada, Spain; and the Ningbo Art Museum in China. Raised on the front range in Colorado, she lives and works in Northern Florida, where she is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University.

Jerry Saltz: A Talk and Book Signing

Posted on January 8, 2023

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist, now, in Art Is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points—from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today—Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers Saltz’s eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramović; and visionaries likeJackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like theObama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures fromThomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a “failed artist,” and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux.

Copies of Jerry’s latest book, Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night will be available for purchase. The talk will begin at 6:30 PM with a book signing with Jerry at 7:30 PM.

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Rachel Feinstein in conversation with Yvonne Owens

Posted on January 8, 2023

I’ve always been interested in portraying some kind of fantasy, then showing that it’s completely constructed. There are always dark messages hidden behind beauty, and the act of sculpting is about listening to that inner voice that warns you about something lurking beneath the surface.

—Rachel Feinstein

In richly detailed sculptures and multipart installations, Rachel Feinstein investigates and challenges the concept of luxury as expressed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, in the context of contemporary parallels. By synthesizing visual and societal opposites such as romance and pornography, elegance and kitsch, and the marvelous and the banal, she explores issues of taste and desire.

Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, and raised in Miami, Feinstein received a BA in 1992 from Columbia University, New York, where she studied religion, philosophy, and studio art. That same year she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine. She found her passion for sculpture under the influence of mentors such as Kiki Smith, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Judy Pfaff.1 In 1994 Feinstein was included in several group shows in New York, including Let the Artist Live! at Exit Art, where she presented a large gingerbread house modeled after Sleeping Beauty’s castle in which she slept throughout the exhibition.

Feinstein’s work was included in the first iteration of MoMA PS1’s Greater New York in 2000. She had her first solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, the following year, showing large plaster and wood sculptures of lions, swans, angels, and waterfalls, and transforming one of the galleries into an all-white Rococo-style salon, inspired by imperial palaces in Munich and Vienna.2 The construction of fantastical, multidimensional environments is integral to Feinstein’s practice. Preferring to see her work in complex interiors, she often brings Baroque elements into exhibition spaces, complicating the relationship between sculpture and painting, positive and negative space. The sculptures, viewed from certain angles, flatten, while the walls seem to expand through Feinstein’s use of mirrors and wallpaper.

 

Seeing her ornate sculptures reflected in her paintings on mirror from the early 2000s, Feinstein began to explore spatial landscapes, notably those depicted in panoramas from the 1800s. Using found images, she created hybrid arcadian landscapes printed on mirrored wallpaper. The first of these wallpapers, Panorama of Rome (2012), was installed in the elliptical gallery at Gagosian in Rome, offering visitors an impressionistic view of the city around them. In 2010–11 Feinstein transformed the modernist interior of Lever House, New York, into a snowy wonderland, rife with stylized elements of Rococo and Gothic design. Interpreting Hans Christian Anderson’s Snow Queen, she created a gilded carriage, groups of toy soldiers, arched alcoves containing characters from the story, and sublime architectural ruins painted onto floor-to-ceiling mirrors.3 Three years later her sculpture Folly (2014) was installed in New York’s Madison Square Park, marking Feinstein’s first public art exhibition in the US.

In 2018 Feinstein produced the Secrets series, comprising eight large-scale sculptures that reimagine the Victoria’s Secret “Angels,” as well as ceramic sculptures inspired by Franz Anton Bustelli’s Rococo commedia dell’arte figurines. As in much of her work, the theatrical and the intricate verge on the grotesque, becoming strangely erotic abstractions, and suggesting the body through its absence.
Feinstein’s first career survey, Maiden, Mother, Crone at the Jewish Museum, New York (2019–21), presented three decades of her sculptures, paintings, and videos and was accompanied by a major monograph. Titled after three consequential stages in a woman’s life, the exhibition traced her investigations of masculinity and femininity, balance and precariousness. First exhibited in 2022, the Mirror series are oil paintings on mirror supports that reference sixteenth-century sculptural altarpieces. Interpreting the altarpieces’ carved forms, Feinstein leaves her figures’ eyes unpainted, evoking in the viewer an uncanny sense of becoming one with each painting. In 2023, Feinstein’s exhibition Façade at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, features her painted panoramas, large-scale sculptures, and wall reliefs in a multidimensional installation that shifts between reality and illusion.

 

Yvonne Owens is a past Research Fellow at the University College of London, and Professor of Art History and Critical Studies. She was awarded a Marie Curie Ph.D. Fellowship in 2005 for her interdisciplinary dissertation on Renaissance portrayals of women in art and sixteenth-century Witch Hunt discourses. Her publications to date have mainly focused on representations of women and the gendering of evil “defect” in classical humanist discourses, cross-referencing these figures to historical art, natural philosophy, medicine, theology, science and literature. Her landmark essay, “The Saturnine History of Jews and Witches,” appeared in Preternature (Vol. 3, No. 1) in 2014, her book chapter, “Pollution and Desire in Hans Baldung Grien: The Abject, Erotic Spell of the Witch and Dragon” appeared in (Angeliki Pollali and Berthold Hub, Eds.), Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography, her essay “The Hags, Harridans, Viragos and Crones of Hans Baldung Grien” was published as part of the Hans Baldung Grien: New perspectives on his work, International Conference Proceedings (October 18-20, 2018), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe in 2019, and her book, Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: the Witches and Femme Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien, was published by Bloomsbury London in 2020. She also writes art and cultural criticism, exploring contemporary post-humanist discourses in art, literature and new media. She is the editor for an anthology of essays titled ‘Trans-Disciplinary Migrations: Science, the Sacred, and the Arts,’ forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Chubb Fellows at Art Basel Miami 2022

Posted on November 9, 2022

 

 

 

The Chubb Post-Graduate Fellowship is the highest honor the New York Academy of Art can bestow on its students. Under the program, the Fellows have the opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of their artistic prowess while serving as teaching assistants and mentors to a new crop of talented figurative artists. Chubb Fellows also receive studio accommodations, exhibition opportunities, and a stipend.

AXA Art Prize 2022 Exhibition

Posted on October 20, 2022

 

View the virtual exhibition here

For complete details on the competition visit axaartprize.com and follow the AXA Art Prize on Instagram and on Facebook.

 

AXA XL, a division of AXA, developed the AXA Art Prize in partnership with the New York Academy of Art. Over the past five years, the Prize has become one of the premier student art competitions in the U.S. and is open to figurative paintings, drawings and prints created by undergraduate and graduate art students. Exhibition Jurors included curators from esteemed art institutions and museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, Gagosian, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The first prize is awarded $10,000 and the second prize $5,000. This year, winners will be chosen by renowned artists Arcmanoro Niles, Nicolas Party, and Robin F. Williams alongside Jennifer Schipf from AXA XL. Prize winners will be announced in November, 2022.

 

2022 Finalists

 

Student Curatorial Committee Exhibition: Walls

Posted on October 5, 2022

 

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 October 6 – December 16, 2022

Closed to the public

 

Fall 2022 Members

Danielle Golden, Hanna Jennings, Sofiya Kuzmina, Tom Letson, Jonathan MacGregor, Arwa Mahmoud, John Metido, Nicola Russell, Stefania Salles Bruins, Guillermo Serrano Amat, Tslil Tsemet, Megan Zappulla

 

Click Here to view the Spring 2022 Student Curatorial Exhibition, “Hiraeth”

Click Here to view the Fall 2021 Student Curatorial Exhibition, “Inside Out”

Click Here to view the Spring 2021 Student Curatorial Exhibition “Treading Lightly”

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

 

 

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Paintings and Assemblages by John Mellencamp

Posted on September 14, 2022

 

Paintings and Assemblages by John Mellencamp

curated by Academy senior critic Dexter Wimberly

 

As his musical career flourished, John Mellencamp began to paint earnestly in 1980 with an early affinity for portraiture influenced by the works of Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. Mellencamp‘s kinship with the German Expressionism of the early 20th century, with its existential focus on the human condition, serves as the foundation for the development of his oeuvre. Mellencamp‘s paintings and assemblages document America’s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with a kind of anti-establishment frown and a rich sense of narrative. Like his music, Mellencamp’s visual art is carefully composed through the structural requirements of harmony, rhythm and order, and are thematically in line with the small-town, earnest voice of the heartland.

 

View John Mellencamp’s interview with CBS News: