Mark your calendars…
2010 Art & Culture Lecture Series
This fall, the Art & Culture Department brings another great lecture series to Wilkinson Hall.
Join us Tuesdays at 7:30pm* as we bring inspiring historians, authors, artists and critics to our community. Here’s a first look at the exciting speakers on the roster so far: Isabelle Bonzom, Hilary Harkness, Wei Dong, Alexi Worth, Odd Nerdrum, Ross Bleckner, Kenneth Currie, David Salle, Eric White… and more to come!
Academy Librarian and Archivist Holly Frisbee will be posting suggested references/articles for each speaker a few days before the lecture, so follow our blog and be fully informed!
Click here for a complete schedule of 2010 Fall Art & Culture Lectures
All lectures are free and open to the public, bring a friend!
So it begins…
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011)
It’s the first week of school as well as the start of high season in NYC.
Welcome to fall.
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| Jean-Pierre Roy, A Wind Toward Off Dreams |
On Thursday night, Sept 9th, A Rational Spectacle opens at Rare Gallery in Chelsea featuring the work of NYAA’s adjunct faculty member Jean Pierre Roy. Roy’s luminescent dystopian landscapes explore the nature of light and new meanings of truth and beauty. Concurrent with his solo show, Roy’s monumental painting Landscape or Questioning…(2009), will be on view as part of a group exhibition that opens the following night at Allen Nederpelt in Brooklyn.
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| Jennifer Steinkamp, Premature 9 |
Also in Chelsea Jennifer Steinkamp opens at Lehmann Maupin. The LA based artist is known for her projected installations that create kinetic, illusionistic environments. This time she turns her attention to systems of the human body.
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| Santiago Sierra, image still from “Los Penetrados” |
In Soho, Team Gallery presents Los Penetrados, the first solo exhibition of Spanish artist Santiago Sierra. The show features controversial stills from his film, “Los Penetrados” (The Penetrated), an examination of cultural psychologies of domination and submission as they relate to labor, race, gender, and class.
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| Henry Darger, untitled (verso) |
Saturday night Sept 11th, Andrew Edlin gallery in Chelsea will have it’s third solo show of Henry Darger’s work. The show will consist of early collages and works never before seen in The Realms of the Unreal. The opening will include a performance by the band The Vivian Girls at 8pm.
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| Lisa Lebofsky, Sandy Pond Lores |
Also if you haven’t had a chance, you can see NYAA Alumna Lisa Lebofsky’s haunting landscapes painted on aluminum in a group show at Volume Black running through Sept 30.
Postgraduate Fellows Exhibition 2010
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- Will Kurtz
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- Panni Malekzadeh
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- Peter Mühlhäußer
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Don’t miss it! – “None Taken” Fellows Exhibition
The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present “None Taken” an exhibition of new work by the 2010 Fellows of the New York Academy of Art.
The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, October 3. This exhibition is free and open to the public 2 – 8 pm or by appointment. Closed Tuesdays and holidays.
“None Taken” reveals the extraordinary impact and infinite creative possibilities that emerge when you juxtapose time-honored techniques with a contemporary artist’s vision. A Fellowship at the New York Academy of Art provides an unparalleled opportunity for an artist to pursue an independent body of work while immersed in a creatively challenging and supportive environment. The only program of its kind, this exceptional residency – and the resulting exhibition – continues to present a powerful case for deeply informed, rigorously trained conceptual figurative art.
Will Kurtz’s smoking, drinking, sitting-on-the-front-porch people are not figures, not sculptures, but a nation we know from the check-out line and bus stop. By making his family and friends out of landfill he suggests that what we view as disposable is anything but.
Panni Malekzadeh’s work keeps the dreams of “Once upon a time…” and “… happily ever after,” provisionally alive with beautifully rendered, poetically conceived fantasies sprinkled with unicorns, fairy dust and sexual politics.
Peter Mühlhäußer‘s steely, pre-pubescent boys are acting out culturally specific global narratives. Vulnerable and aggressive, toy-like and precisely observed, these polymorphic seedlings are the past, present and the future simultaneously.
Previous Fellows of the Academy include Ali Banisadr (Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects), Amy Bennett (Richard Heller Gallery) and Helen Verhoeven (Wallspace). New York Academy of Art Fellows are now represented by galleries in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and abroad and have been featured in art fairs around the globe, including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami and Scope.
Snapshots in Giverny: a Hedgehog, beautiful Landscapes… Divine!
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| Wade sketches a local hedgehog. |
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| Alum Steve Forster presents his work for a critique. |
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| Titian at the Louvre. |
Expansion/Renovations: Connecting
Mike Smith, Operations Manager at the Academy, invites us to walk through the new opening which will connect the two buildings for the new New York Academy of Art.
Follow our blog and see regular updates on the project! See our Flickr page for more photos, and our YouTube page for more videos. Please click here to contribute to the project.
CE Offers Something for Everyone (Fall 2010)
A new year is starting (school year, that is) and Continuing Education at the Academy has many exciting new classes. Resolve to improve a technique, learn something new, and improve your studio skills. Click on a class below for scheduling details and enroll now.
Current MFA students and Alumni receive a 20% discount off tuition!
- Drawing & Painting Studio – Amber Sena, drawing; Shauna Finn, painting
- Absolute Beginners Drawing & Painting – Matt Miller
- Master Techniques: Painting the Figure – John Wellington
- Friday Atelier – Robert Armetta
- Academic Figure and Portrait Painting – Michael Smith
- Portrait Sculpture – Steve Shaheen
- Figure Drawing 101 – Hal Brooks
- Ecorche of the Horse – David Klass
- Intermediate and Advanced Painting the Figure – John Wellington
- Sculpting the Figure – Cynthia Eardley
- Absolute Beginners Drawing and Painting – John Cichowski
- Beginning Watercolors – Michiyo Fukushima
- The Bargue Method – Ard Berge
- Painting the Figure – Maggie Rose
- Landscapes & Seascapes – Steve Forster
- Forensic Sculpture – Joe Mullins
- Artistic Anatomy: Form and Structure – Robert Armetta
- Intermediate Drawing and Painting – Dennis Cheaney
- Painting & Drawing: Theory and Practice – Maggie Rose
- Figure Drawing and Painting – James Hoston
- Still Life Painting – Leah Lopez
- Absolute Beginners Drawing and Painting – Mark Opirhory
- Animal Sculpture – Will Kurtz
- Thinking in Color – Sarah Hall
To register, email John Cichowski – or call him at 212 966 0300 x968.
Sometimes You Have to Fight Fire with Water
by Jason Sho Green (MFA 2011)
My project for this residency began as an investigation of the evolution of memory.
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| “Third Prettiest Girl” |
Initially my concept was to do a series of paintings in Giverny, then stash them away and attempt to re-create the paintings from memory, then to do so over and over again until I arrived at a series that began with something completely from observation and ended with images completely fabricated from my memory. From that idea, my project has evolved into a similar thing dealing with memory but with the subject being a portrait of a young woman I know in NY, whose face I knew I wouldn’t see for the four weeks during my residency in Giverny and travels in Barcelona and Madrid.
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| Monet’s Gardens |
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| Musée d’Orsay |
But upon beginning work on this series, I found that the final paintings were too similar. I could draw her face too well from memory, however didn’t have the time during the residency (only 2 weeks) to fully explore and render the paintings.
Working in this vein, I have combined all the small linen panels I’d prepared (including the ones with already painted portraits) into one large canvas. I have been doing a panoramic painting of our large studio, capturing the movements of my studio mates and the architecture and light of our workspace. Hope this will capture both the evolution of my project and the passing of time as the other artists move in and out of the studio in the coming week.
A while back, an ex-girlfriend/model was looking at my paintings and said, “You’re going to hate this, but why don’t you just paint like you draw?” She was spot on. I had gotten stuck in one of those things where I got wrapped up in painting as I had been taught to paint in class and forgot that there are other ways to solve visual problems. Now I’m trying attack this conceptual problem with a technical strength. Switching it up from “fighting fire with fire” to “fighting fire with water” is how I think of it.
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| The studio… works in progress. |
I think we’re all perversely looking forward to the critiques with Wade Schuman. Everybody seems to have gotten a good start on their works: Ian has a butchered pig head in his studio for a still life, I have a canvas resembling Frankenstein that’s quickly being filled, Amber is working on some exciting drawings with all these odd French materials. It’s been sweet to get on an early start for the second and final year of our MFA program.
Expansion/Renovations: Press, Sculpture Studios, Ventilation
Mike Smith continues the tour of the Academy’s summer renovations and expansion. He highlights the new Griffon lithography press and takes us through the new sculpture studios in the Garden Level. He also steps into the dedicated classroom on 2nd floor, pointing out the new fresh air ventilation system.
Follow our blog and see regular updates on the project! See our Flickr page for more photos.
Please click here to contribute to the project.