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1. New York Academy of Art – The New York Academy of Art is an American private, not-for-profit art university, located at 111 Franklin Street in the neighborhood of Tribeca in Manhattan borough of New York City. The Academy is a school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. Academy students are traditional methods and techniques. The New York Academy of Art was founded in 1980 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, Stuart Pivar, Dennis Smith, the Academy is a graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. The Academy believes that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision, Academy students are taught traditional methods and techniques and encouraged to use these skills to make vital contemporary art. The Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative, the Academy received accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design in May 2013. The Academy was granted an Absolute Charter on June 24,1994 by the Board of Regents of The University of the State of New York and it is institutionally accredited by the Board of Regents and the Commissioner of Education acting under their standing as a nationally recognized accrediting agency. The college is the one in the USA to offer a Master of Fine Arts in anatomical. Its critique has been described as its strength, producing a number of engaging and interesting artists who have a relationship with their work. The New York Academy of Art offers one of the most rigorous, MFA candidates may also study additional tracks in Anatomy and Printmaking. On successful completion of study, it bestows on qualified students the Master of Fine Arts degree with concentrations in drawing, painting, the Academy’s faculty of professional artists and experienced academics have extensive exhibition, publication, award, grant history and a variety of professional affiliations. Faculty specialties reflect the major concentrations of the curriculum, assuring that students receive outstanding education in all areas, the high ratio of faculty to students allows for ease of access to instructors for individualized attention. Additionally, students get the opportunity to meet with a stellar cast of visiting artists and critics who are actively expanding contemporary figurative, past guests include Donald Baechler, Barry X Ball, Walton Ford, Anne Harris, Alexis Rockman, and Peter Saul. Similar to many new institutions, the Academy faced its share of early management. In a bizarre series of events in the 1990s, Pivar claimed he was maneuvered off the board in 1994 by Smith. He then sued the academy for losing several of his artworks, a 1994 report by education consultant Robert Montgomery accused the school of failing the basic requirements of an educational institution. Pivars dispute escalated, and in 1997 he sued the college for $50 million for emotional and mental distress, after the dismissal and resolution of all four claims, the Academy began rebuilding on a solid foundation which has ushered in a tradition of excellence. The Academy occupies a renovated five-story, forty-two thousand square foot building constructed in 1861
2. Aleah Chapin – Aleah Chapin is an American painter who won the BP Portrait Award in 2012. Born in Seattle, Washington, Chapin grew up on Whidbey Island and she studied at the Cornish College of the Arts, before studying for her Masters at the New York Academy of Art. She was immediately made a fellow of the Academy. While still completing her course, Chapin entered the London National Portrait Gallerys 2012 BP Portrait Award exhibition. She beat 2,100 international entries to win first prize for her work Auntie, the prize included £25,000 and a £4000 painting commission to be added to the National Gallerys collection. She was the first female American artist to win the award, Chapin has painted a series of nude portraits, of women from her home area, whom she describes as aunties. She paints in oils, using photographs of the subjects as a source and she describes her award winning painting, Auntie, as a map of her journey through life with a personification of strength through an unguarded and accepting presence. Chapin lists her influences as contemporary painters Andrew Wyeth and Jenny Saville and her first solo exhibition, Aunties Project, at the Flowers Gallery, New York, ran from January to February 2013. He described Steps, her 2012 painting of a group of aunties as probably Chapins most ambitious painting to date, at least one critic has not received Chapins works well, Brian Sewell called her piece which won the 2012 BP Award a “repellent…a grotesque medical record”
3. Will Cotton – Will Cotton is an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects, will Cotton lives and works in New York City. Cottons works from the 1990s depicted pop icons sourced from contemporary advertisements such as the Nestlé Quick bunny - directly referencing visual modes aimed at evoking desire. Cotton described his works in a 2008 interview, saying My initial impulse to make these paintings really came out of an awareness of the commercial consumer landscape that we live in. Every day were bombarded with hundreds, if not thousands of messages designed specifically to incite desire within us, in 1996, Cotton began to develop an iconography in which the landscape itself became an object of desire. The paintings often feature scenery made up entirely of pastries, candy and he creates elaborate maquettes of these settings from real baked goods made in his Manhattan studio as a visual source for the final works. Since about 2002, nude or nearly nude pinup-style models have occasionally populated these candy-land scenes, as in the past, the works project a tactile indulgence in fanciful glut. The female characters are icons of indulgence and languor, reflecting the feel of the landscape itself, interested in cultural iconography, Cottons art makes use of the common language of consumer culture shared across geographical boundaries. He considers the visual threads in his work, drawn from imagery ranging from the Candy Land board game and gingerbread houses to pinup art and cotton candy, cotton’s work also builds upon and updates the idea of land of milk and honey in European literature and art. Cotton states “The dream of paradise, of a land of plenty, is a thread that runs all of human history, not just in the affluent times but in fact very often in the lean as well. ”He has also been inspired by painters Frederic Edwin Church, François Boucher and Fragonard. This struck me as a particularly American kind of propagandist message that I wanted to reference in my paintings, I love the idea of showing. What it might be like to experience such a place, —Will Cotton Will Cotton has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. He is represented by Mary Boone Gallery, New York, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France, and Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany. His work is in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, in 2004 he received the Princess Grace Foundation award for contemporary art in Monaco. Will Cotton was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the New York Academy of Art in 2012, Cotton installed a pop-up French bakery art installation at Partners & Spade in Manhattan, New York. Confections and baked goods the artist used for visual reference were baked on site and were for sale over three weekends in November 2009, bakery staff were fitted with custom-made tiaras of the kind Cotton paints atop the heads of many women in his paintings. Will Cotton was the Artistic Director for Katy Perrys 2010 music video, California Gurls, Perry approached Cotton with an interest in his work, which subsequently became a central visual reference for the video. Cotton created original props for the set, including a three-dimensional Candy Land game board using real baked goods and he worked closely with the video’s director, Matthew Cullen of Motion Theory, and creative team from the music production company EMI to recreate life-size scenery from his paintings