Vincent Desiderio

The Fugitive Artist

Senior Critic, instructor and renowned painter Vincent Desiderio will present a series of three lectures exploring the artist's conflicted relationship with critical theory. Panelists Peter Drake, Dean, and John Jacobsmeyer, Chair of Faculty, will participate in an "ongoing conversation" with Vincent Desiderio during the course of the evening.

Friday, March 5, 6:30

Friday, March 12, 6:30

Friday, April 2, 6:30

Mar. 25, 6:30 pm - Dan Cameron

Lead curator of Prospect New Orleans

http://www.prospectneworleans.org/

Mar. 1, 6 pm - "White Glove Party”
selected sketchbooks in the private (dis)play exhibition on view in their entirety

"drawing conclusions" - a series of presentations in conjunction with the private(dis)play exhibition

Feb. 4, 1 pm - John Jacobsmeyer, master printer
"Printmaking revisited - new ideas and techniques for today"

Feb. 11, 1 pm - Kristine Paulus, book artist "Books as art- pushing the edge of form and function"

Feb. 18, 1 pm - Catherine Howe, painter, in discussion with private(dis)play "artists - "Why do artists still draw?"

February 18 - John T. Spike

6:30pm - 8pm
The writer speaks about his book

Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine

A Vendome Press publication

In this long-awaited, authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of Michelangelo, renowned art historian John Spike sheds new light on the Pietà, the David, and all the other major works, reveals heretofore unexamined aspects of his complex personality, and paints a vivid tableau of late-fifteenth-century Florence and Rome, animated with detailed portraits of Lorenzo de' Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Savonarola, Raphael, Machiavelli, and Julius II, among other important figures in the life of the Renaissance master.

February 9 - Lothar Osterburg

1:00pm

Cedar Tavern, 1959

September 9 - Introduction to series
Why talk art?
With Catherine Howe, Peter drake, Mark Mennin, and Nina Levent

Everything Imagined is Real (After Dante)

September 16 -Robert Taplin
Sculptor, Writer

Formalism and Presence

Robert Taplin is a sculptor working in New Haven, Connecticut. His latest exhibit was in New York in 2009 at Winston Wachter Fine Arts, and was entitled "Everything Imagined is Real (After Dante)." Taplin has also written extensively on sculpture, most prominently for Art in America, publishing a number of articles and dozens of individual reviews.

from The Warhol Project, Double Red

Barbara, (Jewish Jackie Series), 1992

September 23 - Deborah Kass 

Painter

Academy Student Critique with Donald Kuspit

October 1st *(Thursday, 6pm)
The New Revolutionary Realism: A conversation with Donald Kuspit

Donald Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. Winner of the prestigeous Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983), given by the College Art Association, Professor Kuspit is a Contributing Editor at Artforum, Sculpture, and Tema Celeste magazines, the Editor of Art Criticism, and on the advisory board of Centennial Review. He has doctorates in philosophy (University of Frankfurt) and art history (University of Michigan), as well as degrees from Columbia University, Yale University, and Pennsylvania State University.

Vitamin K For Fun, 1982; Blood (Donald Formey), 1975

October 9th *(Friday, 6pm) - Barkley Hendricks
Painter

Hendricks's unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere between portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast.

Micah Ganske, Clearing, 2005, acrylic on muslin, 144" x 120"

October 14th - Micah Ganske
Artist

Micah Ganske was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1980. In 2002 he received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. In 2005 he received his MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art.  In 2005 he was the recipient of the Adobe Design Achiement Award in Digital Photography at a reception held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York where his work was also displayed.  In October 2007 Deitch Projects exhibited Ganske's first solo exhibition. 

Will Cotton in his New York studio,
photograph by Greg Lindquist, 2008

October 21 - Will Cotton 

Painter

Will Cotton's sumptuous oil paintings are in the soft focus, soft-core tradition of 18th-century masters Broc, Gerard, Franque and Fragonard. Like his predecessors, Cotton (who was born in Massachusetts in 1965 and studied art at New York's Cooper Union and the New York Academy of Art) paints beautiful, creamy skinned nudes amidst luscious surroundings. But while Cotton's paintings recall the sensuality and delight of his forefathers, he is far from a mere copyist. Instead of painting high on the sugar of that decadent lost age in art, Cotton updates his opulent source material by replacing pastoral love scenes with mountains of sweets and erotic treats.

October 28 - Mark Mennin

Sculptor

American Renaissance Garden: a classical mid-life crisis

Mark Mennin, a long-time faculty member of the Academy, is known for large-scale granite installations, as well as smaller deconstructed figure carvings. One of his best loved works is the sculptural environment and fountains at the Chelsea market in downtown Manhattan. Mennin took the better part of a year in 2008-2009 to execute "American Renaissance Garden" in Newport Rhode Island. It was a once in a lifetime chance to re-invent a large scale classical commission. Mennin is a graduate of Princeton who has long focused on the beauty and timelessness of stone within a contemporary sensibility. He is a keen observer of culture and has recently been writing about art for the Huffington Post.

Moss Glenn, 2007

November 4 - Susanna Coffey

Painter

Coffey asserts that "politics are not impersonal, because that's the place about which we all have such strong feelings about how the world treats us. As artists wishing to make work that is political, we must rely on our capacity to relate difficult truths by employing the finest 'building' skills. Beauty is the thing that allows us to wrap our minds around even the worst."

November 11 - David Cohen

Art critic, Curator
"Their Blood in our Veins": School of London painting and the Old Masters.  

The School of London is a contended but convenient term that unites disparate painters, as this lecture demonstrates by looking at how Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and R.B. Kitaj make differing use of old master paintings and transcription in their work. The lecture also thinks about how younger British artists like Cecily Brown, the Chapman brothers and Merlin James approach art history.

Julie Heffernan

November 18 - Round Table Discussion

Epic Painting - a round table discussion with Julie Heffernan, Ali Banisadr, and Catherine Howe

Vincent Desiderio, Sumo 2008-2009

December 2 - Vincent Desiderio
Painter, Senior Critic

Vincent Desiderio received a BA in fine art and art history from Haverford College in 1977. He subsequently studied for one year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy (77-78), and for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely, most recently in solo exhibitions at the Marlborough Gallery in New York. He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, the Everson Museum of Art Purchase Prize, a Rome Grant from the Creative Artists Network and a Cresson Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1996, he became the first American artist to receive the International Contemporary Art Prize awarded by the Prince Ranier Foundation of the Principality of Monaco.