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The New York Studio School is committed to giving aspiring artists a significant education that can last a lifetime.

November Intersession Marathons

Thursday, November 11 – Monday, November 15, 2021

Virtual Painting Marathon with Graham Nickson & Guests
Virtual/In-Person Painting Marathon with Graham Nickson & Sam Levy in Telluride, CO
Virtual Drawing Marathon with Torild Stray
Virtual Painting Marathon with Elisa Jensen
Virtual Sculpture Marathon with Jilaine Jones

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Current Exhibition

Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective

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Upcoming Evening Lectures

The Unexplained is Irresistible: A Discussion On the Work of Lennart Anderson with Jennifer Samet, Brian Schumacher, Amy Weiskopf & John Yau, Moderated by A’Dora Phillips

Steven Harvey and June Leaf: What We Remember

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The Latest From NYSS

Alumni Studio Visit: Carol Diamond

Certificate Student Nikheel Iyer Shares His Insights into His Art-Making Experiences

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathon: Samantha Howard

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Snapshots From NYSS

From Figure to Story: VIRTUAL DRAWING MARATHON wit

From Figure to Story: VIRTUAL DRAWING MARATHON with Torild Stray
November 11th - 15th, 9am- 6pm

PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
Apply today via the link in bio!

This intensive Drawing Marathon will introduce new approaches to drawing and image-making, with the focus of merging the observed figure and personal story-telling. Participants will expand their pictorial language and develop a greater visual vocabulary through the creation of drawings from observation and through an investigation of the virtual figure / model in space combined with carefully considered studies in your own personal environment. Informed and inspired by figure compositions throughout art history and in contemporary work, we will expand this material into larger ambitious and rigorous compositions.Through specific exercises, intense looking, encouragement and critiques will we develop our own ways of working with the figure to tell our own stories through powerful drawings. We will use perception to unlock the imagination as we explore the immediacy and power of drawing and synthesize disparate elements into new works.

@torildstray

#torildstray #newyorkstudioschool #drawingmarathon

We are excited to welcome 2021-22 Post-Graduate Ar

We are excited to welcome 2021-22 Post-Graduate Artists Emily Nam, Alison Causer, and Jamie Allen to the NYSS DUMBO Studio!

Emily Nam
Strawberry in A Bowl, 2021
Oil on canvas, 11 x 14 in.
@emilyelizabethnam

Alison Causer
Self Portrait, 2021
Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 in.
@alisonmcauser

Jamie Allen
Shallow Water, 2021
Ink & collage on paper, 5 x 7 in.
@jamieelizabethallen

#newyorkstudioschool

Development Coordinator and MFA Alum Beatrice Ches

Development Coordinator and MFA Alum Beatrice Chessman leading a tour of our historic building as part of @openhousenewyork tours!

The New York Studio School resides in the original site of the Whitney Museum of American Art. This historic set of rooms was woven together by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, first as her own sculpture studio and later, in 1930, as the site for the museum. NYSS has occupied the space since 1967 and has preserved its unique Americana detailing in both architecture and decoration. The highlight is Gertrude’s original hayloft turned studio, which was decorated by artist Robert Winthrop Chanler with an astounding frieze and chimney. Today, students draw, paint and sculpt within these historic spaces. Interested in joining this rich lineage of artists? DM us or email info@nyss.org to learn more about our full-time and part-time programs!

Congratulations to Alumni Jim Condron and Ilse Mur

Congratulations to Alumni Jim Condron and Ilse Murdock on their upcoming two-person exhibition at Platform Project Space opening tomorrow, Friday, October 22nd from 6-8pm! Open Fridays and Saturdays from 12-6pm through November 20th, 2021.

@j_condron
@ilsesmurdock
@platformprojectspace
@elizabethhazan

#dumbobrooklyn #newyorkstudioschool

NYSS Board of Trustees Member Paula Hornbostel, Di

NYSS Board of Trustees Member Paula Hornbostel, Director of the Lachaise Foundation, will discuss the life and work of artist Gaston Lachaise TONIGHT, Wednesday, October 20th at 6pm ET “Gaston Lachaise: Immigrant in Greenwich Village” via virtual lecture at the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation.

Registration is required and can be accessed through the link in the @rcg_foundation bio.

Lachaise was born in France and arrived in Boston in 1906, moving to New York in 1912. He left his homeland in pursuit of the woman who would become the impetus and inspiration of his life’s work, Isabel. Schooled in Paris, Lachaise discovered that America was a fertile place for a burgeoning modern artist. Rubbing shoulders with the artists and writers of Greenwich Village, amidst rallies for suffrage and prohibition, he was inspired to exhibit, carve portraits and commissions, while also nurturing his private vision of the archetypal woman. Lachaise pushed the boundaries of art, from the roaring twenties through the Great Depression, all while aiming to express “the glorification of the human being, of the human body, of the human spirit, with all that there is a daring, of magnificence, of significance.”

Paula Hornbostel is the Director and a Trustee of the Lachaise Foundation which serves to protect, promote, and perpetuate the legacy of Gaston Lachaise for the public benefit. She has organized exhibitions, facilitated loans, and lectured at museums on his life, work, and letters.

In celebration of the centennial of Chaim Gross's immigration to the United States, the Foundation is focusing our 2021 programming on illuminating the stories of artists and immigrants in the collection.

Image: Detail of a photograph of Lachaise in a suit and bow tie at 45 Washington Square South, NYC, c. 1913. Collection of the Lachaise Foundation.

#Chaimgross #Gastonlachaise #sculpture #greenwichvillage #artistsandimmigrants #immigration #publicprogram #lachaisefoundation #rcgrossfoundation
#newyorkstudioschool

TODAY, Wednesday, October 20th at 4pm ET join Arti

TODAY, Wednesday, October 20th at 4pm ET join Artist and Virtual Marathon Alum Rebecca Jones on Instagram Live from her studio in Australia as she shares her work and the ways in which NYSS Marathons have influenced her process.

@rebeccajonesart

#rebeccajones #newyorkstudioschool #drawingmarathon #paintingmarathon #instagramlive

Evening Lecture Series TONIGHT, Wednesday, October

Evening Lecture Series TONIGHT, Wednesday, October 20th at 6:30pm: Francis Bacon: Revelations: Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan In Conversation with Sebastian Smee

Join us by registering for individual lectures through our website (link in bio).

MARK STEVENS is the author, with Annalyn Swan, of Francis Bacon: Revelations, published this year by Knopf in the United States and HarperCollins in the UK. His previous biography with Swan, de Kooning: An American Master, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for biography, among other awards and prizes, and The New York Times named it one of the 10 best books of 2005. Stevens has been the art critic for Newsweek, The New Republic, and New York Magazine and has also written for many other publications, including The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Swan is the former arts editor of Newsweek and an award-winning music critic. She teaches biographical writing at the City University of New York and the Middlebury Breadloaf School of English.

SEBASTIAN SMEE is an art critic for the Washington Post and the author of “The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art.” He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011 while at the Boston Globe. He teaches non-fiction writing at Wellesley College. He has written five books on Lucian Freud and one on Mark Bradford, and is currently writing a book about Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet during the siege of Paris and the Paris Commune, 1870-71.

#francisbacon #newyorkstudioschool #painting

TOMORROW, Wednesday, October 20th at 4pm ET on our

TOMORROW, Wednesday, October 20th at 4pm ET on our Instagram Live Series, Insights into Process, join Artist and Virtual Marathon Alum Rebecca Jones in her studio in Australia as she shares her work and the ways in which NYSS Marathons have influenced her process.

@rebeccajonesart

#rebeccajones #newyorkstudioschool #drawingmarathon #paintingmarathon #instagramlive

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