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2012 SUMMER EXHIBITION
This highly anticipated group show brings together a wide range of new work by 70 established and emerging artists. Comprised of paintings, drawings, limited-edition prints and sculpture, the chosen works were selected from over 600 submissions by jurors David Ebony, Matthew Flowers, Carrie Rebora Barratt, and Steven Zevitas.
Flowers and the Academy have previously collaborated several times, including two 3-person exhibitions by artists who have participated in past Summer Exhibitions.
- Andrew Ackerman (MFA 2005)
- Emily Davis Adams (MFA 2011, Fellow 2012)
- Emily Davis Adams (MFA 2011, Fellow 2012)
- Kiley Ames (MFA 2011)
- Melissa Anderson (MFA 2007)
- Antonia Andrioti (MFA 2008)
- Jose Anico (MFA 2002)
- Andrew Baker (MFA 2004)
- Alexander Barton (MFA 2012)
- Ard Berge (MFA 1997)
- Margaret Bowland (Faculty)
- Julie Elizabeth Brady (MFA 2010)
- Julie Elizabeth Brady (MFA 2010)
- Dina Brodsky (MFA 2006)
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Dina Brodsky
MFA 2006
- Kimberly Callas (MFA 1997)
- Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013)
- Casey Concelmo (MFA 2010)
- Monica Cook (Faculty)
- Jessica Damsky (MFA 2012)
- Randall DiGiueseppe (MFA 2012)
- Randall DiGiueseppe (MFA 2012)
- Michelle Doll (MFA 2006)
- Peter Drake (Dean of Academic Affairs)
- Cynthia Eardley (Faculty)
- Brittany Alexandria Fields (MFA 2013)
- Alexandra Finkelchtein (MFA 2012)
- Shauna Finn (MFA 2005)
- Steve Forster (MFA 2010)
- Jeffrey Gipe (MFA 2011)
- Debra Goertz (Faculty)
- Jason Sho Green (MFA 2011)
- Elizabeth Hutchinson (MFA 2000)
- Lorra Jackson (MFA 2008)
- Christian Johnson (MFA 2001)
- Christian Johnson (MFA 2001)
- Jeanne Kenney (MFA 2002)
- Glen Kessler (MFA 2005)
- Meredith Lachin (MFA 2011)
- Lisa Lebofsky (MFA 2006)
- Amber Lia-Kloppel (MFA 2007)
- Dik F. Liu (Faculty)
- Ian C. R. Martin (MFA 2009)
- Mitchell Martinez (MFA 2012)
- Eric Mavko (MFA 2005)
- Michael Meadors (MFA 2010)
- Alyssa Monks (MFA 2001)
- Peter Simon Mühlhäußer (MFA 2009, Fellow 2010)
- Gary Murphy (MFA 2012)
- Tun Myaing (MFA 2006)
- Roberto Osti (Faculty)
- Laura Peturson (MFA 2005)
- Maggie Rose (MFA 2001)
- Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012), Eleanor, 2012. Oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
- Nicolas Sanchez (MFA 2013)
- Susan Siegel (MFA 2010)
- Michael Wayne Smith (MFA 2006)
- Timothy Smith (MFA 2009)
- Kathy Stecko (MFA 2000)
- Jesse Stern (MFA 2012)
- Robert Taplin (Faculty)
- Greg Tomezsko (MFA 2010)
- Melanie Vote (MFA 1998)
- Dave Wagner (MFA 2013)
- Mitra Walter (MFA 2006)
- Patricia Watwood (MFA 2000)
- Annie Wildey (MFA 2008, Fellow 2009)
- Forrest Williams (MFA 1994)
Reliving Picasso with Sir John Richardson
Installation view at Gagosian Gallery |
There are few artists who rival the mythic place Pablo Picasso holds in history. His life was defined by a fervent work ethic and unflinching ambition. For most of us, historic figures like Picasso are destined to forever live in that mythic realm, and there are only a handful of people still alive who knew those figures so intimately. One such person is Sir John Richardson, an eminent art historian who came to know not only Picasso, but Francis Bacon, Fernand Léger, and Lucian Freud over the course of his career. It is through people like John Richardson that we may glimpse into the person behind the myth. Richardson was recently honored at the 20th Annual Take Home a Nude event, along with the acclaimed British painter Jenny Saville. He recently curated “Picasso and Francoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953†at Gagosian Gallery in New York and invited a few of the Academy patrons along for a special tour of the show.
Following coffee and introductions, we were lead into one of Gagosian’s main galleries as Richardson launched into a discussion about a few of the works. Paintings lined the walls of the large room, many portraits of Gilot. She was an accomplished artist of her own right, as well as Picasso’s lover and muse from 1943-1953. The two floor exhibition is different from previous Picasso retrospectives in that it is an intimate conversation between Picasso and Gilot that we witness through paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramic works and prints created by both artists.
Their relationship blossomed in difficult times – Europe was in the throes of the Second World War and yet during this time Picasso experimented heavily with new mediums, notably ceramics, sculpture and lithography. Richardson told the group that his curatorial concern was with how Picasso transformed those methods, showing how his creative vigor and playfulness was re-channeled by these new mediums. Pointing to a sculpture of a bull’s head (Goat Skull and Bottle), Richardson commented that this embodied the “terrible angst of the war.†In front of a painting titled Winter Landscape, 1950, our host revealed that it was a depiction of Matisse’s house and recounted a disagreement between Matisse and Picasso about trading paintings. When Matisse offered one of his in exchange for Winter Landscape, Picasso quipped “I don’t want one of yours.â€
As we continued the tour we became privilege to more personal history between Picasso and Gilot. Richardson noted that Picasso was trying many new things in an attempt to bridge their gap in age and find common ground. And it is through this earnestness that we see Picasso’s quirky love for Gilot emerge. While looking at a series of 30 lithographs Picasso created while at the Mourlot Atelier, Richardson told us that he depicted Gilot wearing a smelly fur coat that Picasso brought back from a Communist rally in Poland. He said the “Goat Coatâ€, as Francoise called it, exuded a fouler odor when wet. This anecdote was one among many that had us laughing as we imagined the back and forth between the couple.
After viewing several more lithographs and we came upon a selection of Picasso’s exquisite ceramic pieces created at Madoura Pottery while in Vallauris. As with his new sculptural work, Picasso’s style suffuses the pieces. Richardson shared with us that many of the ceramic works created by Picasso at Madoura were bought up very inexpensively after its close.
The tour concluded with the final gallery where Picasso and Gilot were shown together. Gilot’s work is undeniably strong and unique when seen with Picasso’s, and despite their relationship her work is very independent from his. With a laugh Richardson remarked that Françoise preferred Braque to Picasso anyway. After a flurry of last minute questions everyone departed and I realized how fortunate we all were to take part in that tour. To feel connected to art history so directly was an incredibly rare experience, one that I will think upon in days to come.
NYAA/Shanghai Univ./CAFA 2012 China Residency: Once Again Arrived in China!
(L-R: Nicolas Sanchez, Kristy Gordon, Megan Ewert, Cory Dixon) |
NYAA/CAFA 2012 Residency in China: FIRST PHOTOS
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NICE ACADEMY SHIRT! |
NYAA Leipzig International Artist Residency (LIA) 2012 – Week 1
Originally posted in God in the Gallery
Our Lufthansa airbus (2 store mega-airplane) to Frankfurt-Berlin
Above: Brian Dang, Robert Fundis, Elizabeth Glaessner, Noelle Timmons
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Berlin from above (Photo by Robert Fundis)
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Anna-Louise Rolland with her baby Claude at Grafikstiftung Neo Rauch
(Photo by Noelle Timmons)
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On the road to the Neo Rauch’s event we saw tons of these wind turbines. |
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Grafikstitung Neo Rauch
Photo by Robert Fundis
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Yum! Noelle having her first bookswurst (German boiled pork sausage) at the outdoor vendor of Grafikstitung Neo Rauch. |
Welcome to the Spinnerei. Spinnerei which means “Spinning”.
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It feel like home when the building halls welcome you
by automatically light up when you pass by
(Photo by Noelle Timmons)
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Noelle and Elizabeth Studio
(Photo by Elizabeth Glaessner)
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Robert and Brian Studio
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Graffiti SNOW |
Noelle and Elizabeth covering up a graffiti BABIE |
Flughafen Leipzig-Halle (Aero Park Aviation Museum)
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Kaholische Pfarrel Liebfrauen
(a nearby landmark by the Spinnerei if I ever get lost)
(Photo by Robert Fundis)
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Center of Leipzig, City Festival on June 2nd
(Photo by Robert Fundis)
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Garden by the Spinnerei
where cotton mill workers used to grow their food, now used by locals |
LIA family potluck dinner
(Not only are they talented artist but they can cook too!)
Above: On the left- Sarina Scheidegger, Noelle Timmons
On the far right:Brooke Tomiello
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Kanal River in Leipzig, Germany |
Kanal Cafe |
Guten Appetit
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128 years old cotton. What I learn about the history of the Spinnerei. |
Hal Le 14
Above: Far left- Kristina Semenova, Robert Fundis, Elizabeth Glaessner, Noelle Timmons
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Art installation at the Hal Le 14.
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- A new artist staying with us in July from Belgium by the name of Samuel (another fellow painter).
- Jon Beer NYAA alumni 2012 will be staying at Spinnerei with another residency.
- Neo Rauch is expected near the end of June to do a mid-critique with the LIA residents (unless his schedule changes).
- Art fair June 14th Museums to see in Basel: Schaulager, Tinguly Musuem, Kunst Museum, Foundation Beverie
NYAA/Shanghai Univ./CAFA 2012 China Residency: FIRST LOOK
Settling into Studios |
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A little grocery shopping upon arrival |
[the photos that accompany this post are taken by Yi Wang, more student photos will follow].
All these art supplies for $30!!! |
Selecting bikes |
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Searching Within – Review of Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes
Originally posted on Art-Rated (May 31, 2012)
by Lily Koto Olive, Class of 2013
Currently on view at David Zwirner Gallery

Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)
(Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery ©)
2012 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
An exhibition of work by the 2012 Graduates of the New York Academy of Art.
Featured artists above (left to right):
Evan Kitson, Skull (detail), 2012; Jen Miller, Kansas Saints (detail), 2011; Joseph Brickey, Premonition (detail), 2012; Kristina Cao, Strawberry (detail), 2011; Jacob Hicks, Chandelier (detail), 2012; Aleah Chapin, Laugh (detail), 2012; Randall DiGiuseppe, Gowanusaurus (detail), 2012; Jesse Stern, Self-Portrait, 2012.
- Sir James Adkins (MFA 2012)
- Sir James Adkins (MFA 2012)
- Linda Andrei (MFA 2012)
- Buket Savci Atature (MFA 2012)
- Rami Baglio (MFA 2012)
- Rami Baglio (MFA 2012)
- Alexander Barton (MFA 2012)
- Elana Baziz (MFA 2012)
- Sarah Beatty (MFA 2012)
- Sarah Beatty (MFA 2012)
- Jonathan Beer (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013)
- Nicholas Borelli (MFA 2012)
- Nicholas Borelli (MFA 2012)
- Nicholas Borelli (MFA 2012)
- Nicholas Borelli (MFA 2012)
- Ramona Bradley (MFA 2012)
- Ramona Bradley (MFA 2012)
- Joseph Brickey (MFA 2012)
- Jessica Brodsky (MFA 2012)
- Jessica Brodsky (MFA 2012)
- Kelly Burke (MFA 2012)
- Kelly Burke (MFA 2012)
- Miguel L. Carter-Fisher (MFA 2012)
- Miguel L. Carter-Fisher (MFA 2012)
- Miguel L. Carter-Fisher (MFA 2012)
- Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013)
- Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013)
- Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013)
- Aleah Chapin (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013)
- Sarah Crumlich (MFA 2012)
- Sarah Crumlich (MFA 2012)
- Sarah Crumlich (MFA 2012)
- Kristina Cao (MFA 2012)
- Kristina Cao (MFA 2012)
- Jessica Damsky (MFA 2012)
- Randall DiGiuseppe (MFA 2012)
- Randall DiGiueseppe (MFA 2012)
- Elisabeth Ehmann (MFA 2012)
- Alexandra Evans (MFA 2012)
- Alexandra Finkelchtein (MFA 2012)
- Nate Gaefcke (MFA 2012)
- Nate Gaefcke (MFA 2012)
- Nate Gaefcke (MFA 2012)
- Nate Gaefcke (MFA 2012)
- David Gordon (MFA 2012)
- David Gordon (MFA 2011)
- Angela Gram (MFA 2012)
- Jacob Hicks (MFA 2012)
- Jo Hay (MFA 2012)
- Evan Kitson (MFA 2012)
- Nicholas Holiber (MFA 2012, MFA 2013)
- Nicholas Holiber (MFA 2012, MFA 2013)
- James P. Hopper (MFA 2002)
- Elyse Hradecky (MFA 2012)
- Elyse Hradecky (MFA 2012)
- Elyse Hradecky (MFA 2012)
- Elyse Hradecky (MFA 2012)
- Sean Hyland (MFA 2012)
- Sean Hyland (MFA 2012)
- Sean Hyland (MFA 2012)
- Sean Hyland (MFA 2012)
- Sean Hyland (MFA 2012)
- John Jameson (MFA 2012)
- John Jameson (MFA 2012)
- Evan Kitson (MFA 2012)
- Evan Kitson (MFA 2012)
- Adam LaMothe (MFA 2012)
- John Lark (MFA 2012)
- Mitchell Martinez (MFA 2012)
- Mitchell Martinez (MFA 2012)
- J.D. Miller (MFA 2012)
- J.D. Miller (MFA 2012)
- Colin Moore (MFA 2012)
- Gary Murphy (MFA 2012)
- Gary Murphy (MFA 2012)
- Jesse Stern (MFA 2012)
- Lisa Robin Benson (MFA 2012)
- Petrina Ryan-Kleid (MFA 2012)
- Petrina Ryan-Kleid (MFA 2012)
- Kaitlyn Stubbs (MFA 2012)
- Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012)
- Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012)
- Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012)
- Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012)
- Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012)
- Echo Shi (MFA 2012)
- Echo Shi (MFA 2012)
- Echo Shi (MFA 2012)
- Alison Simmons (MFA 2012)
- David Stenulson (MFA 2012)
- David Stenulson (MFA 2012)
- Jesse Stern (MFA 2012)
- Kaitlyn Stubbs (MFA 2012)
- Daniel Williams (MFA 2012)
- Daniel Williams (MFA 2012)
- Daniel Williams (MFA 2012)
- Blake Zoephel (MFA 2012)