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Student Perspective: Helen Kohnke MFA 2020
I first heard about the New York Studio School from a former Alum, Natasha Wright. At the time I was painting in my bedroom apartment. I was desperate to dive deeper into my studio practice in a supportive community. I’d been looking into MFA programs at the time but hadn’t found one that felt like […]
March 31, 2020 · Student Perspectives
Student Perspective: Rachael Bohlander MFA 2020
If someone had told me, as I embarked upon my Studio School journey (and the New York Studio School MFA Program is most certainly a journey), that my final thesis project upon graduation would be comprised almost entirely of large very abstracted plaster semi-figurative sculptures, I would have laughed […]
March 10, 2020 · Student Perspectives
Alumni Spotlight: Carlo D’Anselmi, MFA 2015
“I’ve never known another place quite like the New York Studio School. The excitement and dedication of the teachers and students is infectious for a lifetime. I am forever grateful to my mentors and peers who intensified my desire to create, taught me how to see, and encouraged me to develop a voice with which […]
March 8, 2020 · Alumni
Alumni Spotlight: Katie Ruiz, MFA 2015
“The New York Studio School is the best educational experience I have ever had. I learned so much at the school about how to be a good painter. As a student, I got to meet people that I never would have otherwise and I got to be a part of the New York Art World. […]
March 7, 2020 · Alumni
Pushing the Wall Projects: Jim Condron & Martin Dull
Jim Condron Statement:My recent works are operatic paintings and assemblage constructions where nostalgia, remorse, repression, stamina, chance, and vitality intermingle with paint, thickening mediums, solvents, adhesives, remnants, wood, foam, cement, scrap metal, plastic, repurposed animal fur, clothing, and occasionally metal, mannequins, and farm equipment. Discarded fragments carry a history and I embed that history, the […]
March 3, 2020 · Dumbo Sculpture Studio
2019 Larry Einbender Award Winner Marco Palli
2019 Larry Einbender Award Winner Marco Palli “The Origin of Sculpture” in the New York Studio School Lobby. Reception: Wednesday, January 29th, 6 – 8 PM, 2020Exhibition on view January 26th– February 7th, 2020 The work explores the object as a mirror, where one can see what one knows about. The exhibition presents works […]
January 28, 2020 · Travel Scholarships and Grants
2019 Hohenberg Award Winner Charity Baker
2019 Hohenberg Award Winner Charity Baker presents “The Red Passion Suite” in the New York Studio School Lobby. Reception: Wednesday, January 22nd, 6 – 8 PM, 2020Exhibition on view January 12th – 24th, 2020 The Red Passion Suite The Red Passion Suite is a series of paintings, describing a relationship between two people who got back […]
January 10, 2020 · Travel Scholarships and Grants
Student Perspectives: Charity Baker MFA 2019
My work is partly autobiographical. I am captivated by human interaction, intimacy and landscape. Responding to real-world people and places, my paintings unfold from a winding, obsessive autobiographical narrative; influenced by a cosmist philosophy in which figures and landscapes are transformative. My curiosity with natural light is used to elaborate this running narrative of people in the […]
January 7, 2020 · Student Perspectives
Student Perspectives: Carlo Cittadini MFA 2019
I came to the New York Studio School a few years after completing my BFA at Pratt Institute. I was working a studio building in Crown Heights, and although I treasured the community I had there, I felt there was something missing in my paintings; I was almost happy with my work, and I found […]
January 6, 2020 · Student Perspectives, Uncategorized
Alum Review: “Object Form: Thomas Stavovy” by Marco Palli
Thomas Stavovy is the artist in residency in the Dumbo Sculpture Studio and Gallery of the New York Studio School (NYSS) for the 2018-19 program. With a background in painting, he has dedicated three years to earning a certificate degree in sculpture from NYSS under the mentorship of Jilaine Jones, Bruce Gagnier, Jock Ireland, and […]
June 26, 2019 · Alumni, Dumbo Sculpture Studio
Object Form: Thomas Stavovy
NYSS DUMBO Sculpture Studio and Gallery The DUMBO Sculpture Studio and Gallery is located at 20 Jay Street, Studio 307, in Brooklyn. The studios and gallery are open during DUMBO First Thursday Gallery Walks, which are held on the first Thursday of each month from 6 – 8 pm, or by appointment. To schedule a visit please […]
May 28, 2019 · Uncategorized
2019 DUMBO Open Studios: Thomas Stavovy
The New York Studio School DUMBO Sculpture Studio and Gallery is pleased to present in conjunction with DUMBO Open Studios work by recent graduate Thomas Stavovy. Stavovy explores structures of object-making and display, using wood, cardboard, and plaster, to reconsider an object’s validity and privilege. Saturday, April 27 + Sunday, April 281-6PM DUMBO Open Studios 2019 […]
April 23, 2019 · Uncategorized
Alum Todd Bienvenu interviewed by Noah Becker in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Alum Todd Bienvenu interviewed by Noah Becker in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Todd’s exhibition “Dad Bod” at Galerie Sébastien Bertrand is on view from January 3 – April 27, 2019. Full Interview
March 5, 2019 · Alumni
The Dumfries House Residency: Mark Milroy
A great deal of my work focused on painting and drawing the landscape, beginning with the trees and moving to the stone walls that like the stone of the studio had a pink glow to them. Work that was made there continues into larger canvases in my Brooklyn studio today.
February 28, 2019 · Alumni, Travel Scholarships and Grants
Alumni Studio Visit: Martin Dull
On a typical day in the studio I will arrive around noon. From there I’ll spend time procrastinating, cleaning, wandering around the space, getting my bearings, and gearing up. During this time, I also begin fiddling with any found object assemblages that I have been developing. About an hour or so later, if I have stretchers to assemble and canvases to prepare, I will begin that process. The next phase is painting. This takes a lot of time sitting, walking, looking, and carefully considering all possibilities.
February 20, 2019 · Alumni
2019 Spring Solo Alum Exhibition: Lydia Gladkova – DUMBO First Thursday Gallery Walk
The New York Studio School DUMBO Sculpture Studio presents “2019 Spring Solo Alum Exhibition: Lydia Gladkova.” “Red paper” sculptures, 2012-18 I am showing sculptures that had been in the making for six years. I could not walk away from them, and I could not start anything else until they were finished. I worked on them […]
February 12, 2019 · Dumbo Sculpture Studio
Faculty Garth Evans, Brandt Junceau and alum Maud Bryt discuss recent exhibition “Jonathan Silver, Drawings and Heads” in Evans’s web series “Sculpture Forum.”
To view this episode and past episodes, please visit Sculpture Forum’s YouTube Channel.
January 28, 2019 · Alumni, Exhibitions, Faculty, News
Thomas Stavovy: Work Play Display – DUMBO First Thursday Gallery Walk
The New York Studio School DUMBO Sculpture Studio presents Thomas Stavovy: Work Play Display, comprising several objects and drawings ranging in subject matter from geometric abstractions to disused objects. Materials include plaster, cardboard, and wood. Interest in structure is a constant theme, especially structure of deformed objects and relation between structure and surface. Techniques include […]
January 15, 2019 · Dumbo Sculpture Studio, Exhibitions