by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) Back for my second and final year at the Academy, I am greeted by Will Kurtz’s newspaper motorcycle woman, Neoplatonism and a fourth floor window studio. I returned from the Leipzig residency and subsequent backpacking trip in the German Alps feeling refreshed for the first day of school and with ideas buzzing rooted… Read More
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”… Read More
… as is an artist community. DAY THREE – New England Painting Tourby Seth Ruggles Hiler (MFA 2005) Well, the workshop with painter Jon Imber has come to an end. I spent the morning painting on the porch of Penny’s B&B in Deer Isle, Stonington, Maine. Click here to see a short video. And later that afternoon came my final crit. I have shared a… Read More
DAY TWO – New England Painting Tour by Seth Ruggles Hiler (MFA 2005) Seth gazes out over a spectacular vista (wishing he could have hiked his easel and canvas up to the summit!) Although radical to conventional religious belief, the poem “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church†by Emily Dickinson explains how nature serves as a place of worship… Read More
DAY ONE – New England Painting Tourby Seth Ruggles Hiler (MFA 2005) I traditionally am a studio painter, working from my own digital photography of people and places. My daily life-drawing and painting at the New York Academy of Art has packed my toolbox with anatomical knowledge and an understanding of light that only the naked eye can teach. The… Read More
by Aliene De Souza Howell (MFA 2011) We have been fortunate to receive an esteemed line of artists and guests during our time with LIA. Christiane Baumgartner, largescale woodcut artist, was the first to visit our studios in early July for a critique in addition to graciously taking us into and showing us around her own studio. Christiane Baumgartner (second… Read More
by Aliene De Souza Howell (MFA 2011) We are all making work to flesh out and inform our Thesis, which will commence this fall. Ian has brought a sculptural sensibility to new media and has branched out into photography and video projection. He is transforming the feeling of trepidation he had upon moving to a more fringe New York neighborhood. Always… Read More
After my opening for the Monmouth Museum’s “NJ Emerging Artist Series: Seth Ruggles Hiler – Portraits” on July 16th, in Lindcroft, NJ – see video, below – I hit the road, traveling north to Maine. Leaving behind my “20-Something” Portrait Painting Series (I am so over 20-somethings!), I am ready to avert my gaze to the landscape and engage in… Read More
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