Social Curiosities
dal 26/10/2009 al 12/12/2009
Segnalato da
Katie Albert - New York Academy of Art
26/10/2009
Social Curiosities
New York Academy of Art, New York
An exhibition of new works by the 2008/2009 fellows of the New York Academy of art that. Matthew Miller channels the theatrical pretense of portraiture through a provincial American painting sensibility. In his work Phillip Thomas intends to manufacture cultural reliquaries of the Caribbean and the wider 'new world', using mediums and other agents of the old world. Annie Wildey's current work looks for elements of the sublime within the voids, underpasses and accidental environments created by urban commercial architecture.
Matthew Miller
From Lancaster, PA, Miller received his BA from Messiah College before attending the Academy. He has been actively showing for the last two years in New York, and worked as assistant to the director at Pocket Utopia, a project space in Brooklyn. He also works part time for the Judd Foundation and teaches a CE course at the Academy. In his work, Miller channels the theatrical pretense of portraiture through a provincial American painting sensibility. His figures direct their deadpan gaze at the picture plane, the site of the methodological drama, where the portrait’s shallow space and the panel’s surface break into dialectical interplay.
Phillip Thomas
From Kingston Jamaica, Phillip Thomas received his BFA in 2003 from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, where he was awarded the Albert Huie award for painting. He has been involved in numerous group shows, including the 2008 Jamaica National Biennale, where he received the Aaron Matalan award. For education he was given grants from CHASE and the Cobb Family Foundation.
Annie Wildey
Born in the UK, Annie earned her BA from Kingston University and an MFA in painting and printmaking from the New York Academy of Art. She was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Nominee, and received residencies in Balleroy, France, and St. Barths, FWI. Most recently, she was awarded a year-long residence at the William Steeple Davis House in Orient, Long Island. Ms Wildey's current work looks for elements of the sublime within the voids, underpasses and accidental environments created by urban commercial architecture.
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Image: Phillip Thomas
Opening October 27, 2009
New York Academy of Art
111 Franklin Street New York