By Emily Adams, MFA 2011The recent talk of censorship in the arts has me thinking more about the relationship between map-maker and mapped; gardener and garden; artist and artwork. I came across early survey maps of the American West designed by the US Department of the Interior. A neatly organized drawing carefully, lawfully delineates a landscape of an area of… Read More
By Emily Adams (MFA 2011) A “sbloomberg” on Franklin Ave, Brooklyn The snow plow outside my apartment was stuck for two days. On the second day, a group of guys decided to build a “sbloomberg,” a Bloomberg snowman, in front of the giant, frozen metal blade. As the uncollected trash formed adjacent mountains to the snow piles people dug around… Read More
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011)Think what you may about the commercialization and commodification of art but it is unavoidable. Art fairs, though the pinnacle of the trade show business model, are a critical part of maintaining a contemporary dialogue and can be an integral part of exposure for many artists. If anything, art fairs are a reassuring reminder… Read More
by Emily Adams (MFA 2011) Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #92 (1976) Nearing the end of the fall semester, theses are being written and paintings are being refined for December’s mid-year mark. Last year, Sir Kenneth Clark’s The Nude was a required reading by this time. To be honest, I wasn’t so terribly thrilled about the book, but I recently finished… Read More
by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) My ideas have changed, changed, and changed again. I have had much trouble trying to transfer the efficaciousness of my Germany mixed media works on paper into oil paintings or 3-dimensional pieces. After making a successful mock diorama I attempted to make a much larger 3-dimensional one that was an almost unqualified disaster…. Read More
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011)A lot of heavy hitters this week so I’ll keep it short and sweet. Currin Gagosian has a major Rauschenberg show and Anselm Keifer in Chelsea and a John Currin show uptown. The Rauschenberg show consists of a survey of his work from his early ‘Combines’ to the silk screen paintings of the 1960’s…. Read More
This post begins a new series on the Academy’s blog about the unique opportunity offered through the Postgraduate Fellowship at the New York Academy of Art. Each year, the Academy selects three outstanding graduating students to serve as postgraduate fellows. During their fellowship year, these artists are able to take advantage of studio accommodations at the Academy, exhibition offerings, tutorial support and… Read More
by Emily D. Adams (MFA 2011)Paradise is the Persian word for Garden. Its literal translation is a ‘walled enclosure,’ and has been handed down from sometime around 4000 BCE through the Egyptians and the Moors, to the Spanish medieval cloister and the Italian Renaissance, changing in styles and scope like the English Gardenesque, the botanical, and the mighty National Park…. Read More
by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) Self-portrait, Till Fog and Clear of Midnight  The life of an industrious artist trying to make something of herself requires a lot of back and forth! But all good things, I was in a show with two other artists in Philadelphia. The exhibit opened Saturday evening at the Mural Arts Program’s gallery…. Read More
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011) Exquisite Corpse: Head by Changal Joffe, upper torso by Francesca di Matteo, lower torso by Matthew Ritchie,and legs by Nicholas Byrne On Tuesday night, October 12, The Exquisite Corpse Project opened at Gasser & Grunert Gallery. Curated by David Salle, the exhibition features over 200 well known artists ranging from Vito Acconcci to… Read More
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