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

Spring 2022 Marathons

Tuesday, January 18 – Friday, January 28, 2022

Virtual Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson & Guests
In-Person Sculpture Marathon: Bas-Relief – Touching Space with Jilaine Jones
Virtual Drawing Marathon: Establishing the Horizon Line with Clintel Steed

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Current Exhibition

Likkle Tings, Curated by Curtis Talwst Santiago

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Upcoming Evening Lectures

Lobsters, Butterflies, and Dreams: Stephanie D’Alessandro on Surrealism Beyond Borders

Clare Grill: On Her Work

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The Latest From NYSS

2021 Hohenberg Travel Award: Bee Chessman

Alumni Studio Visit: Rosie Lopeman, Certificate 2016

Alumni Studio Visit: Carol Diamond

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Snapshots From NYSS

Visit the acclaimed Lennart Anderson Retrospective

Visit the acclaimed Lennart Anderson Retrospective exhibition, originated by the New York Studio School, opening this TODAY at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts (@lymeacademy) in Old Lyme, CT. On view from January 14th - March 18th, 2022.

Featured Image: Portrait of Barbara S. (the first one), 1972, oil on canvas. 21 7/8 x 18 in., collection of Vincent Arcilesi

Final days to submit an application to our Priorit

Final days to submit an application to our Priority Deadline for Fall 2022 full-time study in the two-year MFA, three-year Certificate, and three-year Virtual Certificate. With in-person and virtual options, our full-time programs provide a rigorous and supportive educational experience, fostering individual direction and preparing students for a lifetime of art-making.

PRIORITY DEADLINE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 15th

Learn more and apply via the links in bio.

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The Hanako Project – with Brandt Junceau – IN-

The Hanako Project – with Brandt Junceau – IN-PERSON
Mondays, 2pm – 6pm ET
January 31st – April 25th, 2022
🔹Register via the link in bio🔹

Rodin’s portrait practice followed a consistent routine, which is as yet unrecognized in the literature. In his first sittings, he made a sober, uninflected likeness, life-size, by the calipers. A mold was made of this state. From that mold, Rodin could have as many clay duplicates as he wanted. Each one was a fresh start. He need not worry about losing the original; he had the mold. He could try anything, starting over and over.

George Bernard Shaw wrote an article about his sittings for Rodin—maybe that is where the literature began to go wrong. He believed that his bust was changing style and epoch overnight. No, in fact Rodin was simply starting over and over without him, and then checking his work against Shaw himself. Rodin’s work with the Japanese actress Hanako was more radical. Rodin had watched her performance on stage, a story of jealousy, betrayal, rage and grief, which ended in her character’s suicide. In Hanako, Rodin’s sitter was a moving target; an actress, sitting in character. His 40-some busts in 8 different modes (A through H) and multiple states encompass Hanako’s whole performance. More like writing a single-character novel than a making a “piece.”

This course picks up the mold-and-multiple idea, and walks with it. Students bring an existing bust (if you are coming in from the 2021 Fall semester, that would be a terra cotta from Nia) and each student makes a mold—so you learn a bit of moldmaking. From that mold, we produce clay duplicates, and go to work. There are as many ways to advance from the original as you have time and nerve to attempt.

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“The Hohenberg travel award allowed me a month o

“The Hohenberg travel award allowed me a month of the freedom an artist craves: time to simply look with the quietness of mind and internal space to welcome the effect of beautiful and astounding things. This past November was spent wandering, seeing and drawing. Weeklong returns to the same museum were punctuated by treasure hunt days to reach sequestered paintings in the small towns where they have held court for ages." – Bee Chessman, MFA 2020 @bee_chessman

Read Hohenberg Travel Award Recipient Bee Chessman's account of her travels throughout Europe in the NYSS Journal (link in bio). The Hohenberg Travel Award exhibition opens tomorrow, January 13th in the Lobby Gallery and will remain on view though January 27th, 2022.

View Sharon Hecker’s lecture “A Moment’s Mon

View Sharon Hecker’s lecture “A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the Origins of Modern Sculpture" from the 2019 Evening Lecture Series archives on our YouTube Channel via the link in bio.

“Rosso aimed to do nothing less than to modernize the medium of sculpture. He defied the heroic, monumental, and idealized depictions typical of the medium. Rejecting sculpture’s isolated, hierarchical, and atemporal status, he instead made antiheroic heads and small figure groups that captured fleeting impressions drawn from la vie ordinaire. From the depictions of everyday subjects: mothers, children, the sick and the elderly, he strove to dematerialize the sculptural object, rending it susceptible to interactions with light and the surrounding environment. And you can see here, this is a wax cast and the wax has spilled out of the two sides of the mold creating a kind of halo around the little boy’s head.” – Sharon Hecker

#medardorosso #sharonhecker #newyorkstudioschool #sculpture

SCULPTURE MASTER CLASS: Independent Projects in Co

SCULPTURE MASTER CLASS: Independent Projects in Context – with Jilaine Jones – VIRTUAL
Wednesdays, 2pm – 6pm ET
February 2nd – April 27th, 2022

Course Description
This course will support each student in the independent development of sculpture within a context of dialogue about sculptural potentials and precedents. The course will be conducted virtually, utilizing Zoom as the virtual “meeting room”. Though their central project in this course should be sculptural, the participant need not be primarily a sculptor. The format is open: it may be singular structures/forms, or installation, or bas-relief (from the wall). The context of dialogue will be initiated by the group responding through propositional work, in a range of materials, to potentials of sculpture – presented by the Instructor – which exist in regard to space and through action. From there each student will develop their own direction which can be based on these initial exercises and/or though discussion with the Instructor. Which materials are used can be based on individual experience, or not: the Instructor can suggest as per idea, (one or a combination of the materials: cardboard, mix-media, clay, plaster, metals, wood, etc.) The sculpture will develop by immersion with, and handling of, the chosen materials: literally grappling with the ideas, as well as by the context of dialogue and feedback. Expanding the awareness of the potentials will be discussion of images of a broad spectrum of sculptural examples ranging from the Dogon in Western Africa, to the Romanesque and Renaissance in Europe, to directions of the late 20th century across continents. Participants can incorporate ideas from sculptural history to expand or even initiate their independent work. There will be remote technical support based on the range of the instructor’s experience; independent resourcefulness will be also a part of this endeavor.

🔹Enroll via the link in bio🔹

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Likkle Tings, Curated by Curtis Talwst Santiago, r

Likkle Tings, Curated by Curtis Talwst Santiago, reopens today, Tuesday, January 11th and will remain on view through January 23rd, with extended viewing hours from 10am-8pm daily.

Likkle Tings looks at contemporary artists engaged with small-scale works as a major and serious aspect of their practice. The exhibition title is derived from the Caribbean slang for Little Things. Including works by Lyndon J Barrois, Sr, Emma Bonnemaison, Susan Cianciolo, Christina Kenton, Maria Koubourli, Christian Quin Newell, Jill Orlov, Patrice Robinson, Anthony Santiago, Curtis Talwst Santiago and Alexander Richard Wilson.

Featured work: Lyndon J Barrois, Sr
@itsawrapper
Covid Chess Set, 2020
Mixed media: Chewing gum wrappers, magnetic board, glass test tubes, cork, acetate, wire, acrylic, ink,
watercolors, sponge, cotton, vinyl tape, acrylic mirrors.
15 x 15 x 5 in.

#LyndonJBarroisSr #likkletings #newyorkstudioschool

Five days left to apply for Fall 2022 full-time st

Five days left to apply for Fall 2022 full-time study
🔹MFA | CERTIFICATE | VIRTUAL CERTIFICATE🔹
🔹Priority deadline: Saturday, January 15th🔹
🔹Link in bio🔹

The School’s two-year MFA, three-year Certificate, and three-year Virtual Certificate are studio-centric full-time programs featuring concentrations in painting or sculpture, with drawing as an integral component of the curriculum. Each semester begins with a two-week Marathon, followed by twelve weeks of coursework, independent studio work, the Evening Lecture Series, professional practice seminars, one-on-one faculty guidance, collaborative discussions, and faculty-guided trips to the museums, galleries and artist studios in New York City and beyond.

Led by internationally distinguished artists and dedicated teachers, the School’s experiential pedagogy encourages students to work hard and think searchingly, establishing ethical and philosophical frameworks for their life’s work.

Join our dynamic community in-person in New York City or virtually from anywhere in the world to cultivate the skills and methods that will prepare you for a lifetime of art making.

Generous full and partial scholarships are available.

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