Category Archives: MFA 2015

Cecily Brown in Conversation with Claire Cushman (MFA 2015)

Posted on November 18, 2014

By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015)  People often tell Cecily Brown that she paints like a man from the fifties. Her response? “Well, somebody’s got to do it.”Her large-scale, remarkably tactile oil paintings hover at the intersection between abstraction and figuration, and are often compared to Abstract Expressionist works. Based on the aggressive way she puts down paint and her star… Read More

Take Home a Nude, and an Interview with Gabriela Palmieri

Posted on October 22, 2014

By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015)  Gallery 1 Closing You may have heard of “Take Home a Nude” and wondered whether this annual fundraising auction featured dates with the New York Academy of Art’s nude life models. Allow me to clarify – Take Home a Nude, wherein academy students, alumni, and other artists donate works to raise money for Academy Scholarships… Read More