Category Archives: Lectures

Andrew Sendor is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. Sendor is most recognized for his extraordinary facility in representational painting that serves to illuminate his ongoing engagement with the power of the imagination. The artist introduces us to fictional characters in storylines whose genesis derives from a unique creative process: Sendor scripts, produces, directs, and documents… Read More

Keith Timmons Lecture Series Organized by Clifford Owens, Director of Critical Studies, New York Academy of Art This lecture series is supported by Keith Timmons, a Baltimore-based art collector, to convene Black artists, scholars, curators, and critics at the New York Academy of Art during the 2024 – 2025 academic year. Robert Pruitt’s (Houston, TX, b.1975) art practice centers on rendering large scale figurative portraits. He projects into… Read More

  Laura Frazure is an artist and educator with a primary focus on the study and practice of sculptural figuration and human anatomy. She is a modeler and inventor of human morphologies with the inspiration or generative material for her work coming from a wide range of sources. These include literature, popular culture, corporate and social media, art history and… Read More

Join historian and curator Margarita Lila Rosa and Senior Critic Dexter Wimberly for a lively online discussion on how artists can create impactful social media content on Instagram. Social media algorithms are constantly changing and formats are forever shifting. Is it possible to create authentic content and still garner the likes, comments, and follows demanded by greedy algorithms? What does… Read More

Jane Dickson has been exhibiting her paintings, drawings, and prints in museums and galleries domestically and internationally for two decades. She frequently works with unusual surfaces such as Astroturf, sandpaper, vinyl, or carpet to exploit the implicit references and the textural possibilities these materials offer. Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art… Read More

Kylie Manning is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Both art teachers, Manning’s parents often moved their home in Juneau, Alaska, to various regions in Mexico for extended periods. Manning’s work is heavily informed by the atmospheres, latitudes, and colors present in the various geographies of her childhood, where she witnessed the impacts of social, political, and economic change…. Read More

Join us for an in-person Conversation with the Critics! This discussion about art, culture, and community in New York City will be moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly.   Heather Bhandari Program Director, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Heather Bhandari (she/her) is known for her work as a curator, writer, educator, and artist advocate. Prior to joining… Read More

An artistic maverick, Neil Jenney is committed to exploring, and ultimately transcending, realism as both style and philosophy. Having designated his early work “Bad Painting” and his post-1970 output “Good Painting,” he challenges models of taste and subject matter while pursuing an idiosyncratic approach to depicting culture and place. Jenney characterizes his current work as “painted sculpture,” and uses handmade… Read More

Ruth Adams Co-Executive Director of Art Omi Ruth Adams is Co-Executive Director of Art Omi in Ghent, NY, where she provides leadership for the multi-faceted contemporary arts center’s 120-acre Sculpture and Architecture Park and Gallery, five international artist residencies, arts events, and education programming. Together with a Board of Trustees and Program Advisory Boards, totaling 90 people from the arts… Read More