The New York Academy of Art's 8th Annual Summer Exhibition opened this week. Hosted by Flowers Gallery in Chelsea, the show features new artwork from the Academy's community of notable established and emerging artists.
Highlighting contemporary trends in oil painting, sculpture, and graphic art, the exhibition showcases works in a range of media chosen by a jury from more than 700 entries. The show is curated by three esteemed members of the New York art world: Matthew Flowers, managing director of Flowers Gallery; Laura Hoptman, curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art; and Patterson Sims, President of the Board of Independent Curators International.
The New York Academy of Art was founded in 1982 by artists, scholars, and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, to foster a resurgence in the training of figurative and representational art. The Academy has since added the nation's first graduate school of figurative art, which combines intensive technical training in the arts with active critical discourse. Led by a prestigious faculty including Will Cotton, Eric Fischl, Judy Fox, and Jenny Saville, students are taught traditional methods and techniques and are encouraged to use these skills to make vital contemporary art.
The exhibition continues through July 12. To learn more, visit the New York Academy of Art website.
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