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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
In-Person Drawing Marathon: Establishing the Horizon Line with Clintel Steed
In-Person Drawing Marathon with Gracie DeVito & Zach Harris

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Current Exhibition

Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective

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Upcoming Evening Lectures

Ilse Murdock: Enter Even Everything

Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims: In Conversation

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The Latest From NYSS

Alumni Studio Visit: Rosie Lopeman, Certificate 2016

Alumni Studio Visit: Carol Diamond

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

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Snapshots From NYSS

Last weekend to see "Lennart Anderson, A Retrospec

Last weekend to see "Lennart Anderson, A Retrospective," on view in our Gallery through this Sunday, November 28th, open daily from 10am-6pm.

Described in the New York Times as one of the “most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom,” this special exhibition is the first major survey of the esteemed artist’s work since his death and features over thirty paintings spanning a period of over six decades.

#lennartanderson #newyorkstudioschool #painting

Dear Friends, The journey continues: our thirst f

Dear Friends,

The journey continues: our thirst for experience and hunger for the questions poignant to our School are voracious. We still believe in the spirit and the magic.

During this season of gratitude, we give thanks for a thriving School that now extends far beyond the physical geography of Manhattan, for exceptional staff members, inspiring faculty, dedicated Trustees, and a hard-working cohort of engaged students. We give special thanks as well for all of you, the extended NYSS community, for your contributions in making the School such a vibrant and exciting place -- whether on 8th Street or in the virtual realm.

We hope that you have had a chance to visit the stunning exhibitions in our Gallery and that you have enjoyed the incredible speakers in this year's Evening Lecture Series. Join us for upcoming talks or as a student in the new year.

Thank you and all best wishes for the holidays from NYSS.

Image: Avery Johnson (@artbyaevs) MFA 2023

"It was between my first and second year at Yale,

"It was between my first and second year at Yale, and I left school and I went back home to Wisconsin and I went up north to my cottage. This is a place that I love and it felt like a safe place and I felt like if any place was going to help me out and let me know what kind of work I need to make, it's this place. So, I actually just started to make paintings about my cabin. It's a kind of place that has really informed me and taught myself about things that I care about. It's a place I go to be together with my family and friends in nature. It's a place for ritual gatherings for family and friends. It also has this authenticity which I am interested in. It's filled with these kinds of weird hand made objects which are sort of in bad taste." - Breehan James

View Breehan James' lecture "On Her Work" from the 2017 Evening Lecture Series on our YouTube Channel (link in bio). In this clip, James speaks on her search for subject matter and the role her family's cabin played in finding it.

#breehanjames #newyorkstudioschoool

Congratulations to Alum Guy Yanai on his solo exhi

Congratulations to Alum Guy Yanai on his solo exhibition "The Things of Life" at Miles McEnery Gallery, on view through this Saturday November 27th, 2021!

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Image: Guy Yanai, Bompard Interior, 2021, Oil on linen, 59 x 47 1/4 inches, 150 x 120 cm

Looking for the perfect holiday gift? Order "Lenna

Looking for the perfect holiday gift? Order "Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective" accompanying catalog, with contributions by Martica Sawin, Jennifer Samet, Susan Jane Walp, and Paul Resika. Curatorial Statement by Graham Nickson and Rachel Rickert. Link in bio.

In our minds is a presentation of Anderson’s work that is intense in the particular and full of overall presence. Lennart’s work is both humble and ambitious; he convinces us of God in the details without losing the larger structure. He accomplishes this particularity by the use of intense passages that still connect and meld with the whole. We sought to connect his engagements as they coursed through his life. The landscape was as relevant as his commitment to the figure—they needed each other. The still lifes are a foil to the synthetic mythological paintings. His adroitness in trusting the importance of tone remains constant, as does his use of measuring. A specific vision of the role of the artist’s eye runs through his themes, spanning over sixty years of Anderson’s work, from 1951 to 2015. This exhibition holds his unique vision at the forefront of the selection and includes works that reveal his range as well as his obsessiveness with looking.

Graham Nickson is Dean of the New York Studio School (NYSS), painter and curator, and Rachel Rickert is a painter and Exhibitions Coordinator at NYSS.

EXHIBITION REMAINS ON VIEW THROUGH THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH.

#lennartanderson #newyorkstudioschool #painting

In-Person Drawing Marathon with Gracie DeVito & Za

In-Person Drawing Marathon with Gracie DeVito & Zach Harris
January 18th - 28th, 2022
9am - 6pm

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“Drawing is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.” – Edgar Degas

This Marathon will be an intensive life-drawing course in the studio, with a live model and a dynamic setup, focusing on the fundamentals of drawing from perception. Using a range of materials and techniques, we will present and explore a variety of approaches to observational drawing. Students will be encouraged to immerse themselves in the act of looking, to experiment with new ways of seeing, and to develop a strong, lasting drawing practice. Open beginners and those with experience.

#graciedevito #zachharris #newyotkstudioschool #drawingmarathon

Congratulations to Alum Katie Ruiz on her solo exh

Congratulations to Alum Katie Ruiz on her solo exhibition "Border Portals" at Keller Gallery: Point Loma Nazarine University, (@plnuartdesign) San Diego, CA on view November 8 – December 3, 2021.

Border Portals are about finding new ways to re-imagine the word, “welcome”. A portal is something that can transport you to another place, to the other side of the border. While a portal that transports people across space and time may not be the real answer to the immigration issues, it offers a moment to stop and contemplate the idea of reimagining.

For this body of work Katie Ruiz has gone back to figure painting after discovering a love for textile and fiber art. The new work still references blankets, with the use of emergency blankets and Otomi patterns that have influenced her work for years. The blanket is a symbol for warmth and protection. The emergency blanket on the other hand, that silver aluminum film, has become a symbol for refugees, oppression, cages, and expendability.

Ruiz has a long history working with refugees, first in Botswana, Africa, where she created a knitting group, mural, and art classes. Recently, she worked as a teaching artist bringing art classes to the migrant shelters in San Diego. The experiences inspired her to make paintings of the border.

Ruiz’s father was born in Tijuana when his mother came to the border to work as a housekeeper and seamstress, eventually gaining five green cards at a time when the American/Mexican border was more open. The border wall is a dividing line between two groups of people; right and wrong, good and bad, desired and undesired.

As Gloria Anzaldua, the great American scholar of Chicana history once said, “The US Mexican Border is an open wound, where the third world grates against the first and bleeds... This is my home, this thin edge of barbed wire.”

-Katie Ruiz @katieruizart

Final week to see "Lennart Anderson: A Retrospecti

Final week to see "Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective," on view through this Sunday, November 28th! Gallery hours: 10am-6pm daily, excluding Thanksgiving Day.

#lennartanderson #newyorkstudioschool

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