New York Academy of Art 2016 Chubb Fellows Exhibition

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART 2016 CHUBB FELLOWS EXHIBITION
September 6 – September 21, 2016
Opening reception Tuesday, September 6, 2016, from 6 - 8pm
111 Franklin Street, New York

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce the 2016 Chubb Fellows Exhibition, presenting works by the Academy’s three Chubb Postgraduate Fellows. Featuring work by painters Kathryn Goshorn and Esteban Ocampo and sculptor Sarah Schlesinger, this exhibition marks the beginning of each artist’s promising career and the culmination of their year-long fellowships. The show will run from September 6 - 21 at the Academy in Tribeca, with an opening reception from 6 - 8 pm on Tuesday, September 6.

Each year, the Academy selects three outstanding graduates of its MFA program as Chubb Fellows. The fellowship, sponsored by Chubb Personal Risk Services, is the highest honor the Academy bestows. The Fellows receive studio accommodations, a year-end exhibit and a generous stipend. Previous recipients include: Ali Banisadr, Fellow 2009 (represented by Sperone Westwater Gallery, permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum); Amy Bennett, Fellow 2003 (Richard Heller Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art); Aleah Chapin, Fellow 2013 (Flowers Gallery, first American woman to win the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award); Phillip Thomas, Fellow 2009 (Richard J. Demato Gallery, permanent collection of The World Bank), and Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, Fellow 2010 (2013 Venice Biennale).

Kathryn Goshorn (b. 1991, Connecticut) and Esteban Ocampo (b. 1987, Bogota, Colombia) both received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from the Academy, and Sarah Schlesinger (b. 1988, Pennsylvania) received her degree in Sculpture. Although the basis of their education is the same, each artist has developed a signature aesthetic, demonstrating the range of styles incubated at the Academy. Goshorn’s partially three-dimensional paintings are strongly influenced by Flemish tradition and demonstrate a highly skilled combination of bas-relief and illusionistic techniques, while Ocampo’s vibrant canvases use familiar scenes and imagined memories to interpret and interrogate his exposure to American culture as a non-American. Schlesinger’s sculptures play with tropes of landscaped gardens and shrubbery to explore the division and containment of space and human relations and interactions.

About New York Academy of Art
Founded in 1982 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, the New York Academy of Art is a graduate school and cultural institution 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. Through major exhibitions, a lively speaker series, and an ambitious educational program, the Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art.

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART 2016 CHUBB FELLOWS EXHIBITION

September 6 – September 21, 2015
Opening reception Tuesday, September 6, 2015, from 6 - 8pm
111 Franklin Street, New York NY 10013

New York, NY -- The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce the 2016 Chubb Fellows Exhibition, presenting works by the Academy’s three Chubb Postgraduate Fellows. Featuring works by painters Kathryn Goshorn and Esteban Ocampo and sculptor Sarah Schlesinger, this exhibition is the beginning of each artist’s promising career and the culmination of their year-long fellowships. The show will run from September 6 - 21 at the Academy in Tribeca, with an opening reception will take place from 6 - 8 pm on Tuesday, September 6.

Kathryn Goshorn (b. 1991, Connecticut) and Esteban Ocampo (b. 1987, Bogota, Colombia) both received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from the Academy in 2015, and Sarah Schlesinger (b. 1988, Pennsylvania) received her degree in Sculpture. KATHRYN GOSHORN DESCRIPTION Ocampo’s vibrant canvases use familiar scenes and imagined memories to interpret and interrogate exposure to American culture as a non-American. Schlesigner’s sculptures present images of landscaped gardens and shrubs to explore the divison and containment of space and larger ideas of human relations and interactions.

Chubb Fellowship Program
Each year, the Academy selects three outstanding graduating students as Chubb Fellows. The fellowship, sponsored by the Chubb Personal Risk Services, is the highest honor the Academy bestows. The three Fellows receive studio accommodations, a year-end exhibit, and a generous stipend. Previous recipients include: Ali Banisadr, Fellow 2009 (represented by Sperone Westwater Gallery, permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Saatchi Collection and the British Museum); Amy Bennett, Fellow 2003 (Richard Heller Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art); Aleah Chapin, Fellow 2013 (Flowers Gallery, first American woman to win the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award); Phillip Thomas, Fellow 2009 (Richard J. Demato Gallery, permanent collection of The World Bank), and Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, Fellow 2010 (2013 Venice Biennale).

About New York Academy of Art
Founded in 1982 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, the New York Academy of Art is a graduate school and cultural institution 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. Through major exhibitions, a lively speaker series, and an ambitious educational program, the Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art.

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART 2016 CHUBB FELLOWS EXHIBITION
September 6 – September 21, 2015
Opening reception Tuesday, September 6, 2015, from 6 - 8pm
111 Franklin Street, New York

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce the 2016 Chubb Fellows Exhibition, presenting works by the Academy’s three Chubb Postgraduate Fellows. Featuring work by painters Kathryn Goshorn and Esteban Ocampo and sculptor Sarah Schlesinger, this exhibition marks the beginning of each artist’s promising career and the culmination of their year-long fellowships. The show will run from September 6 - 21 at the Academy in Tribeca, with an opening reception from 6 - 8 pm on Tuesday, September 6.

Each year, the Academy selects three outstanding graduates of its MFA program as Chubb Fellows. The fellowship, sponsored by Chubb Personal Risk Services, is the highest honor the Academy bestows. The Fellows receive studio accommodations, a year-end exhibit and a generous stipend. Previous recipients include: Ali Banisadr, Fellow 2009 (represented by Sperone Westwater Gallery, permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum); Amy Bennett, Fellow 2003 (Richard Heller Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art); Aleah Chapin, Fellow 2013 (Flowers Gallery, first American woman to win the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award); Phillip Thomas, Fellow 2009 (Richard J. Demato Gallery, permanent collection of The World Bank), and Peter Simon Mühlhäußer, Fellow 2010 (2013 Venice Biennale).

Kathryn Goshorn (b. 1991, Connecticut) and Esteban Ocampo (b. 1987, Bogota, Colombia) both received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from the Academy, and Sarah Schlesinger (b. 1988, Pennsylvania) received her degree in Sculpture. Although the basis of their education is the same, each artist has developed a signature aesthetic, demonstrating the range of styles incubated at the Academy. Goshorn’s partially three-dimensional paintings are strongly influenced by Flemish tradition and demonstrate a highly skilled combination of bas-relief and illusionistic techniques, while Ocampo’s vibrant canvases use familiar scenes and imagined memories to interpret and interrogate his exposure to American culture as a non-American. Schlesinger’s sculptures play with tropes of landscaped gardens and shrubbery to explore the division and containment of space and human relations and interactions.

About New York Academy of Art
Founded in 1982 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, the New York Academy of Art is a graduate school and cultural institution 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. Through major exhibitions, a lively speaker series, and an ambitious educational program, the Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art.