By Daniela Izaguirre (MFA 2016) I am a bad liar. As I mentioned in my previous post I was a slightly nervous about traveling to China. In all honesty, I didn’t know what to expect. It is said that it takes twelve days to recover your body from jet lag and forty days to adopt a new habit. It is… Read More
By Leonid Lerman (Academy Faculty) Leonid Lerman serves as adjunct faculty at the New York Academy of Art and participated as the visiting critic for the Academy’s Istanbul residency this summer. Image courtesy of Austin Lopez I’m not much of a blogger, but feel like briefly sharing with you some of the impressions of the last few days. I’m slowly… Read More
Simon Ramirez Restrepo (MFA 2016) Terrace view from the female´s residence Today is my third day in Istanbul. So far we’ve immersed ourselves in the culture through walking, eating, visiting, observing, and exploring. We are feeling better and happier with each day that passes. As expected, the jet lag has hit us hard, but the magical energy of the city… Read More
A Few Days with Marco Palli (MFA 2016) in Carrara Today was my first day . . . where should I start? This is pile from which I select the piece of marble to carve my sculpture I worked so hard today that as soon as I laid down I fell asleep. I wanted to share this photo of my… Read More
By Erinn Heilman (MFA 2015) We arrived in Istanbul at the start of Ramadan. Sarah and I both have rooms in a girl’s dormitory in the Ortakoy district down the street from a small mosque. The mosque’s call to prayer happens around 5 times per day over load-speakers and the dogs on our block start howling back to the prayer,… Read More
A View From The Studios Roll 2 / 2 By Maya Koenig The New York Academy of Art operates like a family home, with many bedrooms (studios), and living rooms (classrooms) where siblings (MFA students) spend a majority of their life for the next two years making their work. Here is a second glimpse of that world, taken with an Olympus OM-2… Read More
A View From The Studios Roll 1 / 2 By Maya Koenig The New York Academy of Art operates like a family home, with many bedrooms (studios), and living rooms (classrooms) where siblings (MFA students) spend a majority of their life for the next two years making their work. Here is a glimpse of that world, taken with an Olympus OM-2… Read More
Portraits by Yunsung Jang (MFA 2013, Fellow 2014) reflect both vulnerability and strength simultaneously. His process is a painterly excavation that is extremely physical and personally revealing. Jang’s application of paint is similar to the way one would plaster a wall. Trowels, knifes and brushes slather paint onto the faces of his subjects. Once dry, he is as likely to carve… Read More
By James Raczkowski (MFA 2015) Having just arrived back from Moscow from a short but incredibly memorable trip to Saint Petersburg I am full of spirit and inspiration. Both Moscow and St. Petersburg are vibrant and alive. The streets are full and never empty. The sun shines for 20 hours a day and the locals savor every moment of that… Read More
Last December, the Macau Government Tourism Board hosted ten US based artists to journey to Macau to capture its beauty. Out of the ten artists chosen were three Academy alumni. On a cold winter evening, Michael Smith (MFA 2006), Steve Forster (MFA 2010) and Guno Park (MFA 2011) ventured off to embark on an epic seven day adventure. After a… Read More
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