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Category: Alumni

Alumni Studio Visit: Rachel Rickert (MFA 2015)

NYSS: Describe a typical day in studio; walk us through your process. What are you most excited about in your current work? What are some of the questions you ask yourself as you are working? What keeps you motivated/what are you most passionate about? Rachel Rickert: My paintings are responses to moments I observe in […]

October 6, 2022 · Alumni

Jamie Allen (MFA 2020) Interviewed in Two Coats of Paint

“While the paintings definitely begin in more of an intuitive manner, the way in which the space becomes articulated revolves around the idea of creating a structure, similar to a scaffold, that can then be built upon itself; playing with the edges of the rectangle and the way in which the forms can be considered […]

August 23, 2022 · Alumni, NYSS in DUMBO

Alumni Perspective: Mark Milroy (MFA 2018) Discusses his Exhibition at Nancy Margolis Gallery

What a great surprise it was the day I received a letter from Lilian the Associate Director of Nancy Margolis Gallery. At first, I thought how do they know me? Is this real? I knew the gallery and several of the artists that they have shown and more than that the significance of the gallery. Nancy […]

February 8, 2022 · Alumni

Alumni Studio Visit: Georgia McGovern (MFA 2019)

NYSS: Describe a typical day in your studio. Georgia McGovern: I often work “in the field” out in nature or cities taking notes and sketching, but I also have a small studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that I share with a soapmaker. The bulk of my studio time is in the preparatory drawings. Even if […]

February 1, 2022 · Alumni

Alumni Studio Visit: Rosie Lopeman (Certificate 2016)

NYSS: Describe a typical day in your studio. Rosie Lopeman: What feels meaningful keeps changing, so I’m finding ways to follow it. To begin, I have to let all this content arise:— anxiety, restlessness, inspiration, doubt, ambitions — all this stuff has to be allowed to wash over me for a while. I just need […]

November 9, 2021 · Alumni

Snapshots From NYSS

#Repost from Virtual Certificate Student @paula_wa

#Repost from Virtual Certificate Student @paula_wachsstock
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Oil painting of Niki during virtual open model session at NYSS. She’s the best!

NYSS celebrates the long life and career of artist

NYSS celebrates the long life and career of artist Al Leslie, who taught at the School in the early 1990s. In the clip, Leslie talks about how he uses a mirror when drawing figures to focus on the forms instead of the person.

"So that when I take a painting or a drawing of a person, if I am making a drawing of you now and I'm looking at you and scrutinizing your features, as I do it, I start off thinking that I know who you are and what you look like. But then as I do it, the drawing that's here gets so far off from the person that's there that I can't even recognize the two of you. So, what I do is that I take a mirror, and I look into it, and I see you in reverse and I make the drawing in reverse. When I do that, I distance myself from the person, I distance myself from the drawing and I see the forms as they relate to each other." - Al Leslie

#AlLeslie #newyorkstudioschool

Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment - To Speak

Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment - To Speak of Everything: The Art of Raymond Mason, featuring Sarah Wilson, Leo Costello, and Andrew Woolbright, with Jessica Grim
Monday, February 6, 2023 at 1pm ET
REGISTER LINK IN BIO

The School is thrilled to share that Sarah Wilson and Leo Costello, co-curators of the School's current exhibition, To Speak of Everything: The Art of Raymond Mason, will be in conversation next Monday with Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright (@andrewwoolbright, @brooklynrail). The discussion will conclude with a poetry reading by Jessica Grim.

Photo: The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

#raymondmason #brooklynrail #newyorkstudioschool

The New York Studio School is pleased to announce

The New York Studio School is pleased to announce its Evening Lecture Series, which will be presented in a hybrid format this season. All of the Spring 2023 lectures will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:30pm ET in person and live streamed on Zoom and Youtube Live. Tap the link in our bio to learn more and to register to join from wherever you are.

Spring 2023 Evening Lecture Series:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Concepts of Practice
Oscar yi Hou, with Eugenie Tsai

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Everyday Multitudes: Looking at Raymond Mason Now
Panel discussion with Michael Brenson, Leo Costello, and Beatrice Scaccia, moderated by Christina Kee

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
On Her Work
Janet Alling

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
David Smith, the life and the work
A conversation between Michael Brenson and David Levi Strauss

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1
Curating Lives of the Gods
Laura Filloy Nadal and Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

TUESDAY, MARCH 7
4 Dimensions
Esteban Cabeza de Baca

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8
Philip Guston’s Urgency
Harry Cooper

TUESDAY, MARCH 14
On Her Work
Elizabeth Hazan

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
The Genius, the Fraud, and the Flirt: A Discussion on Robert Winthrop Chanler
A discussion with Lauren Drapala, Thomas Venturella, and Gina Wouters

TUESDAY, MARCH 21
Watch Me Make Me
Gina Beavers

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29
Isamu Noguchi: The In-Between
Brett Littman

TUESDAY, APRIL 11
An introduction to s/heness society
Shanna Waddell

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12
Big Sky: Possibilities Within Poetry & Visual Art
Vincent Katz

Last chance to enroll in: Thursday Morning Drawing

Last chance to enroll in: Thursday Morning Drawing – IN-PERSON with Ilse Murdock
Thursdays, 9am – 1pm ET
February 2 – April 27, 2023

"Drawing is the aspect of unearthing one’s own art and ideas, of finding movement through this evolving sounding board, of being in a mode of interior thinking and receiving next steps. This course poses drawing as a question or search that will enrich each individual’s particular art context and contemporary perspective. With a strong emphasis on “looking”, at both subjects and drawings themselves, students will work to expand their visual language and strengthen their individual approach through a question they set up for themselves. Returning to this question, as the parameters broaden, becomes a connective thread towards the weaving of a personal paradigm within one’s work." - Ilse Murdock

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Color Approaches, an exhibition of works by Virtua

Color Approaches, an exhibition of works by Virtual Certificate Artists, opens this Friday, February 3rd, in the Student Gallery and remains on view through February 9th. Please join us for a reception from 6-8pm.

Featured Artists:
Catherine Bickford @bickfordcatherine
Carolina Brunet @_carolinabrunet
Alecia Chenoa @chenoaart
Irene Cole @irene_cole
Karen Gilman @karen.gilman.22
Carolyn Enz Hack @carolynenzhack
Courtney Harper
Samantha Howard @samhoward_art
J Jaffery @jafferyart
Jodie Lawton @jklawton
Ella Leidy @ella_quince
Gabriela Mendizabal @syrupststain
Felicity O'Connor @felicityoconnorartist
Jane Schube
Paula Wachsstock @paula_wachsstock

#newyorkstudioschool

#Repost from Virtual Certificate Student @_carolin

#Repost from Virtual Certificate Student @_carolinabrunet in Graham Nickson’s Marathon
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Exploring abstraction. It has been so important to learn to see abstraction behind a figurative painting. I enjoy it so much. Definitely i will continue with my abstractions. La spiaggia, Renato Gutusso.

@ny_studioschool
#newyorkstudioschool

#Repost from MFA Candidate @zipporah_norton • Dr

#Repost from MFA Candidate @zipporah_norton
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Drawing marathon with @ilsesmurdock, such a great experience pushing boundaries. Second semester here we come.

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