Category Archives: Lectures

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

 Featuring Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, Zoey Frank, & Amy Sherald moderated by Noah Buchanan and Carl Dobsky Against the backdrop of the Big Stories exhibition at the New York Academy of Art, four of the nation’s leading figurative painters meet to discuss The Narrative in art, and its evolving role in today’s world. Reserve Tickets Bo Bartlett (b. 1955,… Read More

Join Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly, and lawyer/artist James Nepaulsingh for a lively, in-person conversation about the essential business skills all artists and creatives need. The talk will cover topics including: When does an artist need a contract? What to do when you think you can’t afford a lawyer. Copyright! …know who owns your work? What to do if, and when… Read More

  Aleah Chapin (b. 1986 Whidbey Island, WA) is a painter whose direct portrayals of the human form have expanded the conversation around western culture’s representations of the body in art. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including Flowers Gallery (New York, London, Hong Kong), The Belvedere Museum (Vienna), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New… Read More

Mickalene Thomas is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate portraits of Black women composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while dissecting the intersecting complexities of black… Read More

William Keller (son of Deane Keller Sr. and brother of the late Deane G. Keller (former NYAA faculty)) is an historian of architecture with an interest in cultural landscapes, borderlands, and human geography. Keller graduated from Yale and concentrated on Northern Renaissance art at Columbia University, earning his PhD in art history at the University of Delaware. Keller was on… Read More