by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) I re-incarnated a piece from Leipzig about a business man walking past a flooded city street into a mock-up diorama. I also did a drawing for the next in my series of catastrophe meets quotidian, incorporating the Guatemalan sinkhole into a supermarket scene. For my Thesis, I am launching into a new endeavor,… Read More
by Emily Adams (MFA 2011) The Terra Foundation residency has come to a close. On the flight back I watched from the plane window as Paris morphed from a city to a Mondrian painting, and then to some kind of off-kilter fractal in shades of green as we moved over the countryside, over Giverny. West Texas crop circles  This… Read More
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011) The New York Times has officially declared The Recession over. This is great news for the art world. Let’s celebrate with an impressive new location for old staple Sperone Westwater and the opening of new contender RH Gallery. (concept for Sperone Westwater) On Wednesday, Sperone Westwater opens doors at its new spot on the… Read More
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
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011) It’s the first week of school as well as the start of high season in NYC. Welcome to fall. Jean-Pierre Roy, A Wind Toward Off Dreams On Thursday night, Sept 9th, A Rational Spectacle opens at Rare Gallery in Chelsea featuring the work of NYAA’s adjunct faculty member Jean Pierre Roy. Roy’s luminescent… Read More
by Jason Sho Green (MFA 2011) My project for this residency began as an investigation of the evolution of memory. “Third Prettiest Girl” Initially my concept was to do a series of paintings in Giverny, then stash them away and attempt to re-create the paintings from memory, then to do so over and over again until I arrived at a… Read More
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011)August is a slow month in the art world as almost everyone is on vacation, however there are a couple of see-worthy openings this week: R. Nicholas Kuszyk – click for a larger image If you are near the Academy in TriBeCa on Friday night (Aug 20) then check out this pop gallery opening… Read More
by Emily Adams (MFA 2011) Here in Giverny, the air has a floral scent. Morning glories and hydrangeas line the paths to our studios, where Clair Matins and the climbing Zephrine find their way up the sides of old stone buildings. This is the opposite of the desert. Last week, I was in the Sinai Peninsula, where I spent some… Read More
Sketching during the train ride. by Jason Sho Green (MFA 2011) After a few days in Paris, most of the group met up at Gare Saint Lazare and took the train 45 minutes up to Giverny. We were greeted by some of the Terra Foundation staff who showed us to our new studios, houses, and bicycles. The staff has been… Read More
by Emily Adams (MFA 2011)The week of August 9th, I will begin a residency graciously offered to several Academy students by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Our studios will be located not far from the famed Giverny gardens, which I assume most of us know best as they were seen through the cataractous eyes of the aging Monet. We’ll see… Read More
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