Art & Culture Lecture: Hilary Harkness
Tuesday, September 21, 7:30 pm
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| Iowa Class, 14″ by 22″ oil/linen, 2003 |
All lectures are free and open to the public. See you there!
Click here for a complete schedule of 2010 Fall Art & Culture LecturesThe NYAA Library has the following resources available exclusively for NYAA students.
- 9 related books including: Power and Beauty: Images of Women in Art, Representing Women, and The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality.
- Additional titles on women artists, representation of the body, and contemporary artists.
- Access to scholarly articles and reviews about Hilary Harkness through Gale and ProQuest.
- Images in ArtStor, collected in the Hilary Harkness image group for easy retrieval.
Oooh La LA!
by Jessie Brugger (MFA 2010)
The hills are alive with the sound of music! Okay, wrong country, but it was a true story here in Giverny, too. The Musicians for the Chamber Music Festival moved into their residency a few days before we left… and we woke up to nature humming and classical musicians playing away. Don’t get me wrong, its no Tupac Shakur or Biggie Smalls, but it’s very awesome and not a bad way to start the day in the morning!
The other day I went to Rouen, the city where Van Gogh spent the last years of his life. Seeing it explains a lot of how his paintings look. Van Gogh was not exaggerating when he painted the buildings looking like they were caving in on one another (okay, maybe a little) but the imperfection on the lines on the buildings and the wood makes it such an intriguing visual puzzle. It is also the home of the famous Cathedral paintings by Monet. The Cathedral stands in the city like a huge beautiful beast alive with stained glass windows and fantastic gothic architecture. Ah, the power of architecture!
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| Everyone at dinner |
On the last night, we were treated to a fantastic dinner in the French countryside from Veerle Thieleman, Wade Schuman’s good friend. Wade, his wife Kate Javens, the whole host crew from Terra Foundation and the neighbors showed us New Yorkers how the French do dinner and it was extremely impressive! There was so much to take in – a beautiful country view, a lily pond with frogs and flowers, horses in the yard, and Amber even caught a hedgehog. Wade played his harmonica for us in a cave outside of Veerle’s house that dates back to the 1400s. The sound of the harmonica and the candle light in the cave was surreal and yet So Real.

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Lightning Rod – Saya Woolfalk
Saya Woolfalk is a New York artist who re-imagines the world in multiple dimensions (sculpture, installation, painting, performance and video). She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Momenta Art; Performa09; and has been written about on Art21’s blog. With funding from the NEA, her solo exhibition The Institute of Empathy, will open at Real Art Ways in the fall of 2010.
What can we achieve by representing the body in art today?
Art & Culture Lecture: Isabelle Bonzom
Tuesday, September 14, 7:30 pm
Artist and art historian Isabelle Bonzom is a painter of the flesh. She will discuss her research, both as a painter and a scholar, on the representation of the flesh based on two iconographic characters: Judith and Salomé. Through dramatic images showing women with male heads, Bonzom will talk about the cutting of body, image and composition. She will examine how Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gentileschi and Klimt treat those subjects and how Brancusi, Matisse and Fischl evoke the question.
Born in France, Isabelle Bonzom views painting as a living body. She is primarily concerned with revealing relations between the matter and the image. Bonzom is also one of the rare contemporary artists to master buon fresco. She has authored a reference book on the art and technique of fresco, and since 1989 she has been a lecturer at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
All lectures are free and open to the public, so bring a friend!
Next up: Hilary Harkness, Tuesday September 21
Click here for a complete schedule of 2010 Fall Art & Culture Lectures
The NYAA Library has the following resources available exclusively for NYAA students.
- 12 related books including Artemesia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Art, Salome, la Belle Dame Sans Merci, and The Body in Pieces: Fragment as Metaphor for Modernity
- Additional titles on Gentileschi, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Klimt, Fischl, Brancusi, and Matisse
- Electronic access to 27 related scholarly articles through Gale and ProQuest
- 253 images in ArtStor image database, collected in the Isabelle Bonzom image group for easy retrieval
Snapshots in Giverny: Rheas, Toads, Studios
Wade Schuman, faculty instructor and guide on the Giverny residency at Terra Foundation, always finds interesting things!
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| A “nice French toad.” |
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| Rheas, flightless birds similar to the ostrich, lounging by a stream. |
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| Artists in the Studio. |
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.