NYSS Journal
Student Exhibition: Grey Point
The New York Studio School is pleased to present Grey Point, an exhibition of paintings and works on view from October 2 through October 15, 2026. Uncertainty is a universal condition. What can be built from the networks we already have, the people we know, and the work we encounter? How do we decide what belongs together, what matters, and what deserves attention?
October 1, 2026 · Student Gallery
Student Perspective: Betsey Lindor (CFA 2026)
“The Studio School felt like a different environment compared to what I was used to in the past. And I wanted to go to an art school, not necessarily a college that had an art program. I wanted intense work. I wanted more discipline. I wanted to expand my creativity and not be limited to a small space. I wanted to have instructors. I wanted to experience a different environment in a community setting.”
May 25, 2026 · Student Perspectives
Rosemarie Beck Foundation Studio Artist-in-Residence: Rosemary Joy Glidden (MFA 2023)
“The past two years I have been blessed with the opportunity of a studio space as the Rosemarie Beck Foundation’s Studio Artist-in-Residence. This quiet meditative space, on the sixth floor of the Kenkeleba house, has been my painting refuge and retreat.”
May 19, 2026 · Alumni, Travel Scholarships and Grants
Student Perspective: Muzzammil Mehdi (MFA 2026)
“There’s a lot of occult mysticism and mythology and folklore and all this stuff that you learn about as a kid in a whole different part of the world in Pakistan that you don’t really learn about in other parts of the world, like the US. And I try to bring some of that with me when I’m in my practice. Symbols and intersections and influences. I think it makes my vision sort of unique in a way, but also in conversation with the rest of the world and broadens it.”
April 7, 2026 · Student Perspectives
Student Perspective: Francie Cook (MFA 2026)
“I love to capitalize on the childhood experience of just trying something and seeing how it goes. And being a novice and not having all of the rules and regulations and what is right and what is wrong and what is formal. It’s honest play. And it’s honestly me figuring out how to do the thing.”
March 23, 2026 · Student Perspectives
Student Exhibition: fruit or flowers or even clouds
Manet’s defense of the art of still life and of painting seemingly straightforward subjects or mundane motifs inspired this grouping of works.
March 5, 2026 · Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: Two Ships Passing in the Night
This two-person exhibition pairs drawings and paintings by Alex Maceda and Liam Murphy-Torres. The show’s title refers to the artists’ divergent processes: one moving from experience toward abstraction, the other from abstraction toward experience.
February 20, 2026 · Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: Held by the Grid
NYSS presents “Held by the Grid,” the Virtual Certificate Exhibition, from February 6 -19, 2026. The show brings together works by students from across the country working in a range of media.
February 2, 2026 · Student Gallery
Alumni Interview: Elisa Jensen (Years of Study 1989-93)
“My conception of the possibilities of drawing completely opened up, and I learned so much just in those first two weeks that directly applied to my painting.”
January 29, 2026 · Alumni, Faculty
2025 Hohenberg Travel Award Exhibition: Leon Toro
On View in the NYSS Student Gallery January 21 – February 5, 2026
January 13, 2026 · Student Gallery, Travel Scholarships and Grants
2025 Hohenberg Travel Award: Leon Toro (MFA 2025)
“I centered my travels on the principle of light—studying how artists across regions and centuries approached presence, color, and atmosphere. Beginning in Northwestern Europe and moving south, I allowed light to remain my lens, even as I encountered unfamiliar artists, materials, and forms.”
January 5, 2026 · Travel Scholarships and Grants
2025 Peter Rippon/Royal Academy of Art Travel Award: Amelia Wykes (MFA 2025)
“This trip came at an important transitional moment for me, as I have been navigating what it means to sustain a studio practice outside of school. That process has been challenging and has made me reflect a lot about what I want moving forward as an artist, so this experience of traveling and spending extended time looking, served as a valuable guide.”
December 22, 2025 · Travel Scholarships and Grants
Student Exhibition: Convergence of Form
A group show of works by Gal Miriam Amit, Brooke Brown Barzun, Leah Brown, Camila Chaves Cortes, Phoebe Jamieson, Catherine Storey Liebowitz, David Levin, and Isaac Seiden. A convergence of sculptural ideas. Translucent forms that catch the light, clay marked by touch, and sharp-edged constructions. Each material holds its own resistance and surrender, and each artist here has found a way through it.
November 26, 2025 · Student Gallery
DUMBO Artist-in-Residence: Narelle Sissons (MFA 2024)
“The residency came afterward as a post-degree, year-long program in the middle of a thriving artist community. It became a bridge between academia and the professional art world.”
November 17, 2025 · Alumni, NYSS in DUMBO
Student Exhibition: Full plate, still starving
In this exhibition each artist confronts the title of “Full plate, still starving” in their own way. Using it as a point of departure, conceptually or literally whether it be a still life, posing model, or imaginary machinery, the artists reflect upon the accelerating present
November 12, 2025 · Student Gallery
In Memory of Hon. J. William Middendorf II
The New York Studio School mourns the passing of our dear friend and longtime Board Member, the Hon. J. William Middendorf II, who died on October 24, 2025, at the age of 101.
November 4, 2025 · News
Student Exhibition: Rhythm & Movement
A camaraderie instantly formed between Nicholas Grassi and Leo Psaros when they were assigned to share a corner of the Robert Lehman Studio, aptly nicknamed “Big Painting,” during their second semester at the New York Studio School.
October 29, 2025 · Student Gallery
Student Perspective: Adrianna Krajnovic on Life-Sized Figure Sculpture Marathon
“One thing I want to highlight about the Marathon overall is the community of students. It was so amazing being there every day and working with people who were all committed to the same project. There was such a diverse background—one student was from Mexico and another person was from Taiwan, and there were multiple people from all over the US who came to this class.”
October 28, 2025 · Marathons, Student Perspectives
Student Exhibition: If not by the air between
Sensing a continuity in existence — between disappearing and reappearing, presence and absence — the works of Leah Brown and AJ Lim dwell in thresholds. In each artist’s practice, material and perception are in constant exchange: wax and charcoal, paper and air, gesture and trace. The attempt is not to depict a graspable reality but to evoke what lies just beyond sight — to touch the space between what is seen and what is sensed.
October 17, 2025 · Student Gallery
Student Exhibition: Navel Gazing
‘Navel Gazing’ explores the literal and conceptual theme of the navel: as one’s torso and/or belly button, as a central formal point in a composition, as a mythological beginning or center, and idiomatically as “navel gazing,” or the tendency towards self-indulgence and obsession.
October 2, 2025 · Student Gallery
