Category Archives: MFA 2014

SURVIVAL OF YET ANOTHER TRIBECA BALL

By Helen Strickler, MFA 2014 It’s 4:45 on a Friday afternoon, and I am getting very anxious.  In fifteen minutes the classroom I am currently taking Randy McIver’s ecorche intensive course in will become a massive and extraordinarily intricate game of painting storage Tetris and I am not convinced everything will fit.  It is time to prepare for Tribeca Ball. … Read More

Franklyn Project – The First Generation

The New York Academy of Art is proud to be the first home of the Franklyn Project – “a collective born in the 80’s and raised at the Academy.”  From their inaugural exhibition we’ve heard them say: “Our artistic pursuits have placed us unwillingly within the Warhol canon, tasking us with the impossibility of outrunning or rising above His relentless… Read More