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Now accepting applications for the MFA and Certificate Program 2021

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Upcoming Exhibition

Certificate Completion Exhibition 2021

The New York Studio School prioritizes the health and safety of our entire community. Free, timed-entry reservations are required ahead of your visit. A mask covering one’s mouth and nose must be worn to enter the building and while in the building. A minimum distance of six feet must be maintained between persons at all times. […]

Spring 2021 Intersession Marathons

Thursday, March 11th – Monday, March 15th, 2021

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The Latest From NYSS

Student Exhibition: Grace Carney, Nick Hill, and Nora Cohen

Student Perspective: Alison Causer, MFA 2021

Student Perspective: Irene Cole, Virtual Certificate

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Apply to our full-time Virtual Certificate Program

Apply to our full-time Virtual Certificate Program, beginning September 2021.

Participants will meet in real-time for all courses and supplementary programs such as Professional Development seminars, Model Sessions, Lunchtime Lectures, Evening Lectures, and artist-to-artist dialogues. Ideal candidates will have a dedicated studio space in which to work, with reliable internet access and the means to photograph their work digitally, and the drive to commit to a rigorous, in-depth course of artistic study and growth.

Priority Application Deadline for Fall 2021: April 30th, 2021

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Summer 2021 Marathon: Painting Marathon – VIRTUA

Summer 2021 Marathon: Painting Marathon – VIRTUAL with Graham Nickson & Guests
June 21st - July 2nd, 2021
9am - 6pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The importance of color cannot be overstated, often derided as too emotional or romantic, its journey throughout history is helpful to know. We will study color from caves of 50,0000 years ago to the color of Egyptian walls, to Indian and European Miniatures leading to the colors of cities and to pastoral color.

The importance of color is its relation to the ‘whole’. When Matisse painted the green stripe of color on Madame Matisse’s nose, a revolution in depiction happened, the basis of modernist looking. We will explore this and see its implications today.

Going further back, to the ocean of red that holds the Villa of Mysteries figures together, the hallucinatory blue in the virgin’s dress in the Madonna Del Parto by Piero Della Francesco, to the saffron yellow in Bonnard’s Yellow Nude, the late paintings of Goya and his use of black, to the green of Constable who made landscape painting from nature again possible after the violin color analogy imposed by the Academy.

The dependence on local color and its being challenged has proved to be very rich territory to explore. Local color led to conceptual color, and then ultimately to perceptual color. Color has enormous effect on imagery, it can endorse the image and content profoundly. We will work on small paintings every day that show the students an understanding in new possibilities in harmonies, which will in turn affect the large paintings which they do. We will make transcriptions from unlikely works from different centuries and cultures of the deep past and of the present, these will be important and ambitious. Color, weight, scale and color mixing will be part of the program; Be prepared for an adventure.

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Congratulations to Alum Malado Francine on her rec

Congratulations to Alum Malado Francine on her recent interview with Shoutout LA.
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I had the good fortune of interviewing recently with @shoutoutlaofficial ✨ ... about my new art series, what the ultimate end goal is, and my favorite— the longest paragraph is dedicated to the many women and organizations in Los Angeles that have helped me along the way and provided resources and opportunities for other women. ✨🙏🏼🌈🙏🏾✨ (Link in bio or: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-malado-francine-artist/ )
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Some of the women who I’m particularly grateful for their generosity and friendship in navigating the LA art world include: @grantalexandra @artblather @nicolejcohen @katharina.rosenberger @unicornkiller1 & Kelly Carmena.
🙏🏼 And organizations: @feministcenterforcreativework @associationofhystericcurators @berlincollective2021 @maiden.la @everywomanbiennial @philosophical_research_society @theartistsoffice
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The photo above is by the amazingly talented @frame_lines ~ Thank you! 🙏🏼
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Artwork photograph in the article by the always gifted @elonschoenholz 🙏🏼

Summer 2021 Marathon: Painting Marathon – IN-PER

Summer 2021 Marathon: Painting Marathon – IN-PERSON with Clintel Steed
June 2nd - June 15th, 2021
9am - 6pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this Marathon, we will explore the idea of creating paintings from drawings. During the first week, we will spend the first half of each day drawing onsite in Harlem and return to the Studio School in the afternoon to create a large drawing from the on-site drawings of each morning.

During the second week, we will use the big drawings to create a painting using methods and tools to investigate how drawings can become paintings. We will concentrate on color and taking notes on color so that when we get back to the studio we have information to begin making the painting and how to deal with color. We will also give special attention to the rectangle, geometry, and composition.

🔹APPLY TO SUMMER 2021 MARATHONS VIA THE LINK IN BIO🔹

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Last weekend to see Rebecca Purdum: Breathing Pain

Last weekend to see Rebecca Purdum: Breathing Painting, currently on view in our Main Gallery through this Sunday, April 18th, 2021.

Free, timed-entry reservations are required ahead of your visit via the Gallery link in our bio. Prior to entering the building visitors are required to fill out a COVID-19 self-assessment questionnaire on the NYSS website (link in bio).

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Summer 2021 Marathon: Drawing Marathon – VIRTUAL

Summer 2021 Marathon: Drawing Marathon – VIRTUAL with Graham Nickson & Guests
June 2nd - June 15th, 2021
9am - 6pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this online Marathon, students will learn the importance of drawing as the basis of understanding one’s experience of the world. Drawing is seen here as the most direct route to the examination of our perceptions. Unorthodox tools and exercises will be introduced to broaden the student’s drawing vocabulary. The class meets daily from 9am to 6pm, five days a week (excluding weekends). Evening critiques may be held during both weeks. Times of the critiques will be announced during the session. Attendance to each session is mandatory. Students are expected to work on assignments, photograph and upload images of their work throughout the duration of the course.

🔹APPLY TO SUMMER 2021 MARATHONS VIA THE LINK IN BIO🔹

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Congratulations to MFA 1 Students Grace Carney, Ni

Congratulations to MFA 1 Students Grace Carney, Nick Hill, and Nora Cohen on their current show in the Student Gallery on view through April 18th!

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@nikhilles
@norie.lily

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Summer 2021 Marathon: Sculpture Marathon – IN-PE

Summer 2021 Marathon: Sculpture Marathon – IN-PERSON with Brandt Junceau
June 21st - July 2nd, 2021
9am - 6pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The life-size figure is a touchstone of sculpture, which has been remade and passed forward generation by generation, and must be refashioned once again, now. To make something as big as oneself, standing like oneself, with every feature and surface, a head, a face, a gaze like oneself: that is a very peculiar proposition, unlike anything else mankind makes for ourselves, which must have been strange, startling, and intimidating the first time. It continues to be. This class is not an anatomy lesson, it is an investigation of image and presence. Anatomy will be probed, and possessed: it serves a purpose. Basic modeling skills will be learned, and challenged: the figure creates them, to realize itself. One needn’t have done this before to try it now. A certain boldness in confronting self and other is necessary, and persistence, and a willingness to try for trying’s sake. One will not retain the big figure in clay. It will be broken down again to raw material. One takes away the confrontation, and possibility.

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