March 29, 2013

Group Show - Face Face

Face Face
Curated by Cori Beardsley (MFA 2011)
UMES
Mosely Gallery
 
11931 Art Shell Plaza
Princess Anne, Maryland 21853

 
Opening reception, Friday, March 29, 4-6pm
On view: March 29 - April 26, 2013
 
Feautring artits: Nicolas Holiber (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013), Quentin McCaffrey (MFA 2011), Ledelle Moe, John Mosher, and Robert Simon
 


 


March 27, 2013

2013 Leipzig Residency Fellowships

We are happy to congratulate our first-year recipients of the 2013 Leipzig Residency Fellowships, selected from finalists by the Leipzig International Atelier:Alicia Brown, Tim Buckley, Krista Smith and Shangkai Yu.

LORRA JACKSON (MFA 2008)

Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity
Group Show
Rush Arts Gallery
526 W 26th St, #311
New York, NY 10001

On view: April 4 - May 10, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, April 4, 6-8pm
Artist talk: Saturday, May 4, 4-6pm

Curated by Gabriel de Guzman and featuring works by: Firelei Báez, Yael Ben-Zion, Cecile Chong, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Nicky Enright, Lorra Jackson (MFA 2008), Sara Jimenez, Redell & Jimenez, Saya Woolfalk (Artist Advisory Council)

Group Show - Finding Space: Artwork Inspired by Urban New York

Finding Space: Artwork Inspired by Urban New York
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center.
107 Suffolk Street

New York, New York 10002

Opening reception: Thursday, April 4-14, 6-9pm


Featuring work by: Sarah Beatty (MFA 2011), Amber Hany (MFA 2011), Guno Park (MFA 2011), Rob Plater (MFA 2013), Todd F. Wright

Group Show - Divergent

Divergent
curated by Nicolas Sanchez (MFA 2013)
Murray Berman Gallery at the Joan and Alan Bernikov JCC
1466 Manor Road
Staten Island, NY 10314 

On view: March - April 30, 2013

Featuring work by: Jon Beer (MFA 2012, Fellow 2013), Zach Brown (MFA 2013), Garrett Cook (MFA 2014), Christina Duarte (MFA 2013), Megan Ewert (MFA 2013), Brittany Fields (MFA 2013), Yunsung Jang (MFA 2013), Shannon Kenny (MFA 2013),  Daniela Kovacic Muzio (MFA 2013),  Tatiana Ortiz Rubio (MFA 2013), Robert Plater (MFA 2013), Nico Sanchez (MFA 2013), Amanda Scuglia (MFA 2013), Maria Teicher (MFA 2013), Noelle Timmons (MFA 2013), Dave Wagner (MFA 2013)

WILL KURTZ (MFA 2009, FELLOW 2010)

Another Shit Show
Solo Show
Mike Weiss Gallery
520 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

On view: March 21 - April 27, 2013

P. RYAN-KLEID (MFA 2012)

In Conversation: Carly Bodnar and P. Ryan-Kleid

Yashar Gallery         
276 Greenpoint Ave, Bldg. 8, Ground Floor  
Brooklyn, NY 11222

On view: March 22 - April 7, 2013




BUKET SAVCI ATATURE (MFA 2012)

50th Annual Juried Competition 
Group Show
Masur Museum of Art
1400 South Grand
Monroe, Louisiana 71202


On view:  March 1 - June 8, 2013
http://www.masurmuseum.org/current.php
 

GREG MARRA (MFA 2001)

Academy alumnus Greg Marra created a life-size sculpture of slain Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle out of clay to be cast in bronze.

JOHN VOLK (MFA 1998)

Print Profs
Group Show - Recent work by MN faculty
Highpoint Center for Printmaking 
912 W. Lake Street 
Minneapolis, MN 55408

On view: February 8 - April 6,  2013

Read the review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

ARD BERGE (MFA 1997)

Ard's painting Dreamscapes (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) is part of the U.S. Department of State--Art in Embassies collection and will be on view in the new embassy in Libreville, Gabon.

http://art.state.gov/artistdetail.aspx?id=166524

March 15, 2013

Group Show- Undertow 3

Undertow 3
Group Show
Sloan Fine Art at Ryske Renovations Third Floor Gallery
6 West 37th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018

Opening reception: Friday, March 15, 6-8pm
On view: March 16 - April 12, 2013

Participating Academy artists: Peter Drake (Dean of Academic Affairs), Nicole Etienne (MFA 2009) and Jean Pierre Roy (MFA 2002, Fellow 2003, MFA Faculty)

Full artist list: Mia Brownell, Peter Drake, Cara Enteles, Nicole Etienne, Eric Finzi, Martin Kruck, Julia Marchand, Elizabeth McGrath, Ransom & Mitchell, Marion Peck, Jean-Pierre Roy, Aaron Smith, Jonathan Viner and Brad Woodfin

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March 14, 2013

SETH RUGGLES HILER (MFA 2005)

East of Orange - New Portraits by Seth Ruggles Hiler
Solo Show
Bergen County College
Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre Lobby
400 Paramus Road  
Paramus, NJ 07652 

On view: March 21 - April 5, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 21, 6-8 pm

March 8, 2013

PATRICIA WATWOOD (MFA 1999)


Patricia Watwood with DACIA GALLERY at FOUNTAIN ART FAIR
Fountain Art Fair returns this weekend to the 69th Regiment Armory, the home of revolutionary 1913 Armory Show
MARCH 8 - 10, 2013
The 69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Ave @ 25th Street
Dacia Gallery Featured Artists at Fountain:
Janet Cook, Stephen Early, Max Ginsburg, Maria Kreyn, Travis Little, Daniel Maidman and Patricia Watwood

March 6, 2013

ELENA BOUZA (MFA 2009)

ARMORY ARTS WEEK 2013
GROUP EXHIBITION AND ART PROGRAMMING 
MARCH 6TH – 8TH BRONX DAY AT BARTOW PELL MANSION & 
THE ANDREW FREEDMAN HOME
1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10456 
Elena has work in the group show We Are Still Here that will run from March 6 - 8. As part of a special Armory Show event it will be on view starting at 11am on March 7. 

MARIA TEICHER (MFA 2013)

Maria is one of the featured artists at the Arch Enemy Arts booth at the Fountain Art Fair.  The Fountain Art Fair is this Friday through Sunday (March 8th, 9th, and 10th) and is located at Lexington Ave and 25th Street. http://www.fountainartfair.com  

March 5, 2013

DINA BRODSKY (MFA 2006) and DAVID PETTIBONE (MFA 2007, Fellow 2008)

Dina Brodsky (MFA 2006) and David Pettibone (MFA 2007, Fellow 2008) are in New American Paintings, Northeast Issue 104.

FRANCESCO LONGENECKER (MFA 2007)

Review in Two Coats of Paint for the exhibition Giacometti and a Selection of Contemporary Drawings at Norte Maar.

PETER DRAKE (Dean of Academic Affairs)

Peter Drake has been commissioned by MTA Arts For Transit to create site-specific public art for the Long Island Rail Road Massapequa Station, Massapequa New York.

Drake's proposal evokes timeless scenes of waiting for trains to arrive with toy figures representing rail customers, a bright sky, rows of hedges and local details.
 
The project features 18 glass windows and 5 ceramic/glass mosaics throughout the train station measuring 436 square feet of artwork.

Drake will be collaborating with artisans at Glasmalerei Peters Studio in Paderborn, Germany and Mosaika Art and Design in Montreal, Canada.

MTA Arts For Transit is among the nation's largest public art programs and covers the Metropolitan NYC area.

http://www.mta.info/mta/aft
http://www.glasmalerei.de
http://www.mosaika.com

image: Original Proposal by Peter Drake for LIRR Massapequa Station

MICHAEL KAGAN (MFA 2005, Fellow 2006)

Billionare Boys Club crewneck sweatshirt features artwork by Michael Kagan.

Read more about the sweatshirts here.

WILLIAM BOLTON (MFA 2006, Fellow 2007)

William Bolton (MFA 2006, Fellow 2007) discusses his work and window installation from The Introducing Series at The Window at 125 at The Roger Smith Hotel.

Check out the videos:
William Bolton: http://vimeo.com/55895095
William Bolton Introduced by Katie Albert Bolton: http://vimeo.com/57170645
 

MAYA BRODSKY (MFA 2010, Fellow 2011)

Solo Show
RARE Gallery
547 W 27 Street, No. 514
New York New York 10001

 

DANIEL ESQUIVIA-ZAPATA (MFA 2011)

Image and Text
Solo Show
Eden Rock Gallery - St Barths
St-Jean Bay, St Barthelemy
97133 French West Indies

On view: February 16 - March 15, 2013

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MELANIE VOTE (MFA 1998)

Eye on the Storm
Group Show
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery
8099 College Parkway SW
Ft. Myers Florida 33919

On view: March 1 - April 13, 2013

SHIN YOUNG AN (MFA 2001)

Winds of Change
Solo Show
St. Thomas Aquinas College 
125 Route 340 Sparkill, NY 10976
 
Reception: Wednesday March 6m 4:30-6:30pm
On view: February 25 - March 24, 2013

LESLIE ADAMS (MFA 1992)

Leslie Adams was selected as a finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has selected the portraits that will be included in the “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.” The juried exhibition includes 48 works created from traditional media like oil paintings, drawings and photographs as well as more surprising materials such as rice, glitter, thread and video. The exhibition will be on view from March 23, 2013, through Feb. 23, 2014.

EDGAR JERINS (MFA Faculty)

“David and Anita Visiting Daina” was one of 48 artworks chosen in the Outwin Boochever Portait Competition 2013. The show opens March 22, 2013 and is up through February 2014 at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.

VINCENT DESIDERIO (Senior Critic) and EDGAR JERINS (MFA Faculty)

The Philadelphia Story: Contemporary Figurative Work Drawn from the Academy
Group Show
Ashville Art Museum
2 South Pack Square
Asheville, NC 28802
 
On view: January 29 - June 19, 2013
 
Artists in the exhibition include Bo Bartlett, Christina Bothwell, James Brantley, Joe Brenman, Michael Ciervo, Vincent Desiderio, Beth Foley, Roger Geier, Sidney Goodman, Orit Hofshi, Edgar Jerins, Alex Kanevsky, Daniel Kornrumpf, Jessica Levine, Nancy Bea Miller, Bruce Samuelson, Julia Stratton, Chuck Tisa, Justin Webb and Elizabeth Wilson.

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March 4, 2013

ROBERT TAPLIN (MFA Faculty)

Grounds for Sculpture made a video of Robert Taplin's (MFA Faculty) recent show Heaven, Hell & the History of Punch.

KRISTY GORDON (MFA 2013)

Kristy Gordon is mentioned in the Tribeca Citizen for her painting in the China Residency Exhibition that is currently up in the Academy's lobby.