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Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Sam Kelly

The Summer 2020 Virtual Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson & Guests was a wonderful experience. I am very thankful to the New York Studio School for offering this program during these difficult times. Fran O’Neil, Charity Baker, Sam Levy and Graham Nickson did a fantastic job running the program and it was an experience that […]

January 12, 2021 · Marathons

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Patty Hudak

I was delighted to be able to attend “Abstracting the Landscape” Virtual Drawing Marathon, with Fran O’Neill from my home in northern Vermont. The pandemic lifestyle has enforced my intimacy with the forest surrounding me, so the ability to focus and process my drawing research, in the community of other artists, with direction from O’Neill, […]

January 5, 2021 · Marathons

NYSS Instructor Karen Wilkin’s article “How Art Lovers Weathered the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020” in The Wall Street Journal

Enjoy NYSS Instructor Karen Wilkin’s article “How Art Lovers Weathered the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020” in The Wall Street Journal. “The New York Studio School, where I teach art history (remotely) in the MFA program, now has full-time remote students from all over the world and well-known alumni, based as far away as California and Australia, […]

December 21, 2020 · Faculty

MFA II Student Exhibition: Jack Albrittain & Ann-Marie Mountford

MFA II Student Exhibition: Jack Albrittain Ann-Marie MountfordDecember 14th 2020 – January 17th, 2021 Artist StatementAnn-Marie MountfordI create my work, frequently in series and often in relief, through mixed-media collage or structure, continually drawing from life and my imagination, to explore and develop new images, juxtaposing vibrant color against more muted hues. I am influenced by […]

December 17, 2020 · Student Gallery

Alumni Studio Visit, David Rich

NYSS: Describe a typical day in the studio. David Rich: At present I paint from late morning into evening or night. In the past my schedule involved teaching during the day and painting at night. I usually have a couple of new paintings in progress, as well as a couple of older paintings being significantly […]

December 16, 2020 · Alumni

Student Perspective: Halle Dillon MFA 2020

I first learned about the New York Studio School as an undergraduate through my college professors at Hollins University. I understood it was a serious art school for committed artists but moving to New York City for grad school seemed like an impossible dream to me at the time. After graduating from Hollins, I joined […]

December 7, 2020 · Student Perspectives

Student Perspective – Marathons: Mimi Kwon

Art is a poem. One word is very important in my life, one picture, and one moment of painting is very special. That has a power and that is my motivation to be an artist. I fondly remember my first Marathon Drawing in 2019 with Dean Graham Nickson, which was a really wonderful experience in […]

December 1, 2020 · Marathons

Alumni Spotlight: Carlo Cittadini, MFA 2019

While at the New York Studio School, I discovered how to paint with my guts. As I was pushed to work faster than my brain could think, I learned to have a visceral experience that is raw, immediate, and stunning. And then to look. I learned about making, but I also learned about myself; I’ve […]

November 23, 2020 · Alumni

Student Perspective: Jamie Allen MFA 2020

The choice to continue my education was less in pursuit of an MFA, and more so in finding a community that would nurture my growth as a studio artist. I ultimately decided to apply to the New York Studio School after a series of encounters which showed that this was, undoubtedly, the perfect option for […]

November 17, 2020 · Student Perspectives

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Samantha Howard

I have been drawn to the Marathons at the New York Studio School since the time I became familiar with the School. The very notion of a Marathon of any kind is intriguing, and of course appeals to a certain type of personality. I am not being trite in admitting I am a runner, […]

November 3, 2020 · Marathons

“Game Changer: Mercedes Matter” in Gagosian Quarterly

Lauren Mahony and Michael Tcheyan pay homage to the founder of the New York Studio School in Gagosian Quarterly. Mercedes Matter’s devotion to art and artists, manifest in her founding of the New York Studio School, was instilled in her early on. Born Jeanne Carles in Philadelphia in 1913, the future artist, writer, and educator […]

October 28, 2020 · History

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Lisa Wilde

Clintel Steed’s Sacred Geometry Marathon was a transformative experience for me. Because of COVID restrictions, a limited number of students were allowed to attend this Marathon and we were “podded” into two large studios. We all wore masks, including the instructor and the model. The structure of our days was like other Marathons – Clintel […]

October 28, 2020 · Marathons

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Heidi Chapson

In a previous life, I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, worked in the music industry, and eventually wound up in the technology space. But the two themes that have remained consistent throughout these years has been drawing and painting. Admittedly, there have been dearth periods, just as much as there […]

October 20, 2020 · Marathons

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Rebecca Jones

My work always improves dramatically after participating in a New York Studio School Marathon. With that in mind I decided to make most of the virtual content offered this September and enrolled in the Fall 2020 Virtual Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson & Guests. I have participated in many of the Studio School Marathons and […]

October 12, 2020 · Marathons

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Pat Brentano

The 2020 fall virtual drawing marathon was a gift to myself. It was a reawakening, a professional kick in the head. Cezanne said, “There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind. Each of them should aid the other.” For two solid weeks, in my garage, my mind and my eyes joined […]

October 1, 2020 · Marathons

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Julie Marcelia

I first heard about the New York Studio School Marathons from a couple of art related podcasts I listen to. Then I saw a promo on Instagram for the Virtual Marathons. Could a West Coast artist with kids at home participate in a New York Studio School Marathon? I had been looking for something to […]

September 29, 2020 · Marathons

Student Perspective: Lorena Velez MFA 2020

For many years, while working as a self-taught painter in Peru, I had the dream of pursuing an education in painting. Studying art at the New York Studio School has been an opportunity that I never even imagined to live. I have learned so much that it has changed me in different ways. Not only […]

September 15, 2020 · Student Perspectives

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Ella Leidy

“Are you an image maker or an image seeker?” The question, posed by Dean Graham Nickson, caught me off guard. I didn’t know how to respond, not least because it dovetailed so neatly with the questions I had lately been asking myself, that had led me to the New York Studio School in the first […]

August 31, 2020 · Marathons

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Carolyn Enz Hack

Process, process, process, making art is a continuum rather than a destination. Even artists who work in a single medium and who have recognizable stylistic attributes do not remain static over the long term and never stop reaching for new ways to satisfy a desire to build on previous work. I attend workshops and frequent […]

August 25, 2020 · Marathons

Student Perspective – Virtual Marathons: Brigitte Bentele

When I heard that Graham Nickson’s Summer 2020 Drawing Marathon would be held virtually, with the requirement of only a blank wall of at least four feet and reliable internet access, I gave up on the idea that I would be able to take the class, one that I had taken twice before at the […]