Westminster Kennel Club Poster Contest Winners

"Hickory," a pen, ink and watercolor image produced on paper by noted illustrator Chris Duke (MFA 2003) has been selected as the winning artwork to represent the 136th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show February 13-14, 2012. Special thanks to board member Seán McCarthy for this great opportunity and the exposure it garners our artists!

For the second consecutive year, the contest was sponsored by the New York Academy of Art, which also selected five additional finalists, artists Laura Ellis (CE) Shauna Finn (MFA 2005), Julio Flores (MFA 2009), Debra Goertz (MFA 2000) and Benjamin Martins (MFA 2011). The winning image of the 2011 Best In Show winner will be utilized in a poster and in other club materials to promote the 2012 show.

Thank you to Cadogan Tate, the official art handler of the Academy, for their assistance with this show.

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ERIC FISCHL (Senior Critic)

DINA BRODSKY (MFA 2006)

"I See the Moon"

Group Exhibition

Milavec Hakimi Gallery

New York, NY

January 12 - February 19, 2012

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Group Show - Something About Her

An All-Female Art Exhibition featuring works by:

Aleah Chapin, Alexandra Evans, Alexandra Finkelchtein , Aliene Howell, Alison Simmons, Angela Gram, Buket Atature, Echo Y. Shi, Elisabeth Ehmann, Emily Adams, Holly Ann Sailors, Jennifer Miller, Jessica Damsky, Jo Hay, Kaitlyn Stubbs, Kelly Burke, Kristina Cao, Lily Koto Olive, Nadene Grey, Rami Baglio, Sarah Beatty

Curated by Derrick B. Harden & Kaitlyn Stubbs (MFA 2012)

The Cupping Room
359 W Broadway
Between Broome and Grand Street

Opening Reception: January 26, 6:30- 8:30 pm
Work on view daily from January 19- February 26

The Cupping Room, in partnership with Indiewalls.com, is pleased to announce its first group art exhibition of 2012.

“Something About Her” brings together twenty-one female artists for a unique examination of femininity today. The group of artists is an international crowd, with origins ranging from Australia, Turkey, Alaska, Moldova, Philippines, England, Japan, Hawaii, China, and all corners of the United States.

Each artist currently resides in New York, and “Something About Her” is a culmination of their diverse perspectives and backgrounds. All of the women, with the exception of two 3rd year fellowship recipients, will graduate with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the New York Academy of Art this May.

While working in traditional media (oil painting, printmaking), the artists use established and historic processes to communicate contemporary female perspectives. Themes in the exhibition vary from fertility and motherhood, technology, identity, age, violence, sexuality, poverty, consumption, interpersonal relationships, beauty, and the sublime.

Indiewalls.com, currently in beta, is built around the symbiotic relationship between artists and non-traditional exhibition spaces. IndieWalls provides an online platform for artists to find alternative venues to display their work, and provides an easy online platform for consumers to purchase that artwork.

Please join us this Thursday at The Cupping Room in Soho for the “Something About Her” opening reception, co-hosted by curators Derrick B. Harden and Kaitlyn Stubbs.

Press Contact: derrick.harden@gmail.com, ks@kaitlynstubbs.com

Group Show - Animal Love

ANIMAL LOVE
February 8 - March 18, 2012
Opening & Valentine’s Party
Featuring performance by
Liliana Velásquez
Wednesday, February 8th, 9 - 11pm

Kraine Gallery presents ANIMAL LOVE a group exhibition featuring the works by:
Dina Brodsky, Lyndsea Cherkasky, John Cichowski, Sebastian Deregibus, Bonnie De Witt, Alexandra Evans, Shauna Finn, Merritt Fletcher & Stephen John Ellis, James French, Mark Golamco, Kathleen Hayes, Alvaro Luna, Michael Meadors, Ryan Myers, Madeleine Nuñez, Isaac Pelepko & Blaise McDaris, Nicolas Sanchez, Amber Sena, Alfred Steiner, and Liliana Velásquez.

This exhibition runs from February 8th through March 18th at Kraine Gallery, 85 East 4th Street, on the 2nd Floor in the East Village.

Curated by Herbert Mendoza and Bonnie De Witt (MFA 2007), ANIMAL LOVE is the latest exhibition from Kraine Gallery, conveniently adjacent to KGB (Kraine Gallery Bar), and featuring New York artists with an interest in the role of animals in contemporary art. Sincere animal portraiture, oil paintings of critters and beasts, anthropomorphism, figures and creatures, and carnal eroticism give this little art show sharp little teeth. Beware, love bites.

The opening will be held on Wednesday, February 8th from 9 to 11 PM.
Concurrently, a Valentine’s Party will be hosted by KGB Bar next door.

ANIMAL LOVE will be on view from February 8 through March 18, 2012. For additional
information, please email krainegallery@gmail.com or click here.

Group Show - Love is in the Air

“Love is in the Air”
A Gesamtkunstwerk Presented at The Cell
Artwork curated by Island Weiss and Michelle Doll (MFA 2006), live performance curated by Jeremy Bloom and featuring the urban faeries of Audrey Luce
 

The Cell

338 West 23rd Street, NYC

Reception Friday, February 10th
Art opening 6-8, Live performance 8pm
With celebration to follow
Please RSVP : charis@islandweiss.com

Featuring the artworks of:
Jean-Pierre Arboleda, Sofia Bachvarova, Julie Brady, Dina Brodsky, Bonnie DeWitt, Michelle Doll, Uziel Duarte, Daniel Esquivia-Zapata, Nicole Etienne, Jane LaFarge Hamill, Michael Meadors, Alyssa Monks, Isaac Pelepko, Jason Talley, Melanie Vote, Mitra Walter

NIC HOLIBER (MFA 2012)

Dead Meat

Tom & Jerry's

288 Elizabeth Street (Between Prince and Houston)

Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6-9pm

WILL KURTZ (MFA 2009, Fellow 2010) - NY Daily News

"Newspaper sculptor Will Kurtz discovers New York and his creative side after 50" 

Those who don’t know any better would probably think Will Kurtz was just another young, emerging artist from Brooklyn.

After all, his debut exhibition at the Mike Weiss Gallery in Chelsea not only has a provocative title, “Extra F***ing Ordinary” and the tech-savvy concept of sculpting people whose photos he secretly took with his iPhone on the streets of New York, but Kurtz’s art emanates from his studio in Bushwick, the epicenter of the post-Williamsburg hipster artist set.

But Kurtz is in fact a gray-haired, 54-year-old former landscape architect from Flint, Mich.

 

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DINA BRODSKY (MFA 2006)

Dina Brodksy, David Bown Projects Award Recepient, 2011

Dave Bown Projects is pleased to announce the results of the 3rd Semiannual Competition which was curated by Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City, New York; Richard Polsky, Author and Art Dealer; and Christina Strassfield, Guild Hall Museum, New York from submissions that were received from artists from at least 35 countries.  This competition features images of the work of 25 contemporary artists.  A total of $10,000 USD will be awarded. Josh Welker will receive $5,000. Larissa Borteh, Dina Brodsky, Eliza Burke Greene, Giovanna Cecchetti, and Liz Nielsen will each
receive $1,000.
 

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PHILIP THOMAS (MFA 2008, Fellow 2009)

 

Carousel was recently acquired for the permanent collection of The World Bank, Washington, DC.

MICHAEL PAIGE GLOVER (MFA 2001)

Milton the Demon Boy
January 8 - March 4, 2012
Reception - January 10

Missouri Valley College

500 E. College

Marshall, MO 65340

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PETER DRAKE (Dean of Academic Affairs)

Toy Stories

January 27 - March 18, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 6 – 8pm

Westport Arts Center

51 Riverside Avenue

Westport, CT 06880

Toys – how we relate to them and the memories and connections we make, both positive and negative, have played an immeasurable role in contemporary culture. Toys never completely lose their original purpose, but it is this familiarity of the toy that enlivens and enhances the dialogue between the artist and the viewer.

Works by Morton Bartlett, Nick Cave, Peter Drake, Laurence Hegarty, D. Dominick Lombardi, Takashi Murakami and others.  Read more...

WILL KURTZ (MFA 2009, Fellow 2010)

Extra F***ing Ordinary

Opening reception: Thursday, January 12, 6-8 pm

January 12, 2012 - February 18, 2012

 

Mike Weiss Gallery

520 West 24th Street

New York, NY 10011

 

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BRYAN DRURY (MFA 2007)

Recent Portraits

January 12 - February 25

Opening Reception January 12, 6-8pm

DEAN PROJECT
511 West 25th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001

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The Academy, Hilary Harkness and the Huffington Post

Artist and Academy champion, Hilary Harkness talks painting with the Huffington Post.

Read the article here.

Beijing Exhibition: Mutual Vision: Six Young Sino-American Artists' Exhibition

On December 15th, four students and alumni of the New York Academy of Art had their first exhibition of work completed during their residency at the University of Shanghai and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Corinne Beardsley, Mitchell Martinez, Wang Yi, Samuel Evensen, Cao Yi and Kiley Ames-Kliein participated in the residencies for two months working side by side with their CAFA and Shanghai colleagues helping to cement future programs for students, alumni and faculty.  The show, titled Mutual Vision: Six Young Sino-American Artists' Exhibition, took place at the MOUart Gallery in Beijing's internationally renowned 798 gallery district.  The exhibition has been very well received and can be seen at…

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NIC RAD (MFA 2007)

Artlog's "Artlog Year in Review" says that Nice Rad, "coined Art Pop, an inversion of Pop Art that seeks to “implicate, impugn, or reform...” 

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DAISUKE TAKEYA (MFA 1995)

God Loves Japan

February 4, 2012 through April 1, 2012

Opening reception: February 4, 2-5pm

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

God Loves Japan is a time-sensitive installation memorializing the earthquake/tsunami disaster that took place in Japan on March 11th, 2011. This installation intends to raise awareness of Japan’s long-term recovery needs and will encourage viewers to re-evaluate the meaning of love and empathy in our time. 

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LISA LEBOFSKY (MFA 2006)

"White Spaces"
Solo Exhibition
January 14, 2012 through February 12, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14th, 2012, 4-6pm

Windham Fine Arts
5380 Main Street
Windham, NY 12496

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SHANGA MANNING (MFA 2011)

Poetics of Reverie

Artwork by Shanga Manning and Daphne Arthur

January 5 through February 2, 2012

RARE Gallery

547 W 27 Street | No. 514

New York New York 10001

Opening reception Thursday, January 5 from 6-8pm

MICHELLE DOLL (MFA 2006)

SILVERMAN and Hamilton Square Condominium Association present
Michelle Doll, Winter Wind
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 11, 6 to 8 p.m.

Hamilton Square Condominium
232 Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07302

Exhibition on view January 11, 2012, to March 30, 2012

JON BEER (MFA 2012)

Imagined Spaces / Envisioned Places

January 6-12, 2012

Dino Eli Gallery

81 Hester Street, New York, NY

Opening reception Friday, January 6 from 6-9pm