November 15–30
The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery
Reception: Thursday, November 15, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
This annual exhibition showcases the work of emerging student artists who have earned the Art Students League's prestigious grants. Patrons of the League who established grants, some going back many decades, realized long ago the importance of recognizing the accomplishments of League artists. Today the grants encourage all our students to strive for that recognition. While the League has always exhibited the work of grant winners (for many years in the gallery at Avery Fisher Hall), this is the fifth Grant Winners exhibition held in the League's Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery. It is with great pride that the League presents the 2012 Grant Winners Exhibition, featuring the work of students who earned the League grants in 2010.
The images shown above represent the artists' work since winning their grants. However, not all of the images shown above will be included in the gallery exhibition.
The participating artists (and their 2010 grant awards) are:
Sequoyah Aono, Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant
Allston Chapman, Nessa Cohen Grant
Beñat Iglesias Lopez, Xavier and Ethel Edwards Gonzalez Grant
Kathleen Huggard, Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship Award
Marshall Jones, Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship Award
Kathryn Keller Larkins, Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship
Jung Ah Kim, Lloyd Shrewood Grant
Alejandro Leal, Nessa Cohen Grant
Christopher LoPresti, Jr., Phyllis Mason Grant
Kazuya Morimoto, Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant
Jonathan Niborg Speier, Kuniyoshi Award
Charlene Tarbox, Michael Ponce de Leon Printmaking Award
Matt White, Nessa Cohen Grant
Eduardo Yunda, Xavier and Ethel Edwards Gonzalez Grant
Bernard Zalon, Michael Ponce de Leon Printmaking Grant
Judges for the various grants are listed below:
Nessa Cohen Grants
Mary Ryan, Gallerist; Mayumi Sarai, Artist
Xavier Gonzalez and Ethel Edwards Travel Grant & Kuniyoshi Award
Steven Charles, Artist; Michael Gitlitz, Gallerist
Phyllis Mason Grant
Christopher Pugliese, Artist; Peter Trippi, Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine
Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant
Lori Bookstein, Gallerist; Paul Resika, Artist
Lloyd Sherwood Grant
Cecily Kahn, Artist; Brian Washburn, Gallerist
Sequoyah Aono
Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant
Images
1. Watching upon the present, 2012, marble, aluminium, steel, H5'6" x W9' x D13'
2. Self Portrait, 2009, wood, H34.5 x W12 x D12"
3. People in New York, 2009, wood & acrylic paint, H28 x W12 x D12" (approximate size for one piece)
Education
The Art Students League of New York, 2009-present
Instructors: Seiji Saito, Greg Wyatt, Leonid Lerman, Gary Sussman
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan, MFA in Sculpture, 2007
Allston Chapman
Nessa Cohen Grant
Images
Beach Baby, bronze on stone, 10 x 6 x 7 in.
After the Tomb Mourners, bronze on granite, 11 x 10 x 16 in.
Three to Get Ready, bronze on wood and steel, 12 x 22 x 3 in.
Education
The Art Students League of New York, 2000–present
Instructors: Jonathan Shahn, Anthony Antonios, Oscar Garcia, Greg Wyatt, 2005-present
Michael Burban, Daniel Dickerson, Mary Beth McKenzie, Peter Cox, Frank Mason, Ken McIndoe, Ron Sherr, Gregg Kreutz, Raymond Kinstler, 2000-2004
Email
allstonchapman@arloartists.com
Beñat Iglesias Lopez
Xavier and Ethel Edwards Gonzalez Grant
Images
1. Untitled, 2012, painted plaster, 18 in. H x 15 W x 9 D [man with tricorn hat]
2. Untitled, 2012, painted plaster, 20 in. H x 15 W x 9 D [head wearing pointed helmet]
3. Untitled, 2012, painted plaster, 19 H x 15 W x 9 D in. [head wearing green helmet, pointed in front only]
Born in Pamplona, Spain, 1979
Education
The Art Students League of New York 2005-2012
Instructors: Jonathan Shahn, Anthony Antonios, Michael Grimaldi, Costa Vavagiakis, Frank Porcu, Harvey Dinnerstein, Mary Beth Mackenzie, Dan Gheno
Universidad del Pais Vasco, Biscay, Spain B.F.A. 2003
Website
www.benatiglesias.com
Awards
2012 Nessa Cohen Grant. The Art Student League of New York
M2M Public Art Installation, The Art Student League of New York
Grand Prize Winner, ACOPAL 2nd Annual Competition, United States
1st Prize, Self-Portrait Cover Competition, American Artist Magazine
2010 Xavier Gonzalez and Ethel Edwards Travel Grant. New York
2009 Expansion of Studies Grant, Gobierno de Navarra, Navarre, Spain
2008 Edward McDowell Travel Grant, The Art Student League of New York
Expansion of Studies Grant, Gobierno de Navarra, Navarre, Spain
2007 Semifinalist in the American Artist Drawing 70th Anniversary
2nd Prize, Drawing category, The National Academy Museum
Expansion of Studies Grant, Gobierno de Navarra, Navarre, Spain
2006 1st Prize, Portrait category, National Academy Museum, New York
3rd Prize in Painting category, National Academy of Design, New York
Honorable Mention, Landscape category, (NAD), New York
Jean Gates Award, The Art Students League of New York
Newington Cropsey Foundation Summer Residency Program in Florence
Gail Von Der Lippe Merit Scholarship, The Art Student League of NY
2005 Honorable Mention, Portrait category, National Academy of Design, NY
2003 Seneca-Sicue Scholarship, University of Barcelona, Spain
2001 Erasmus Scholarship, Bradford and Ilkley Community College, England
Exhibitions
2012 American Contemporary Realism, Beijing World Art Museum, China
The Butler Institute of American Art, ACOPAL, United States
George Billis Gallery, City Streets 2, New York, United States
Red Dot Show, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, United States
AAF, Uchu Gallery, New York, United States
The Final Project, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York
2011 The Buildings of New York, George Billis Gallery, NY, United States
Figure Now, Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery, United States
Riverfront Studios Gallery, New York, United States
Red Dot Show, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, United States
2010 Group New York, Dorian Grey Gallery, New York, United States
Grant Winners Show, Phillis Harriman Mason Gallery, NY, United States
New York Moments, George Billis Gallery, New York, United States
Alex Adam Gallery. Artist From Around the World, NY, United States
AAF, Ber Thyssen Gallery, New York, United States
2009 Alex Adam Gallery, Artists and Monitors., New York, United States
2007 Ogilvy &Mather Interactive Agency, New York, United States
Rockefeller Center, Selected works, New York, United States
National Academy Museum, Juried show, New York, United States
2006 National Academy Museum, Juried show, New York, United States
Lincoln Center, Selected works, New York, United States
2005 Works from the Basque Country, University private collection, Spain.
Meson de La Navarreria, Pamplona, Spain
Centro Cultural Ezkiroz, Navarra, Spain
2004 Centro Cultural Ermitagana, Pamplona, Spain
2002 Forest Gallery, Collaboration with Alazne Berges, Edimburgh, England
2001 Love Apple Gallery, Collaboration with Alazne Berges, Bradford, England
2000 Basque Country University private collection, UPV Gallery, Vitoria, Spain
HEAD SERIES: A DELICATE IRONY.
The main focus of my work for the last 12 years has been the exploration of the human figure, both physical and psychological. By using the human figure I explore the nature of human relationships, the essence of self in society in our modern world. I approach this exploration through drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.
The “HEAD SERIES,” an ongoing project, is a series of life-size busts made of pigmented and painted plaster. These sculptures are portraits of people I know.
Although I always start my work from direct observation, at a certain point the sculpture takes on a life of its own. As I work further with the piece, in its next iteration, I increasingly abstract the portrait with additional elements.
For example, in some of the sculptures I have incorporated costume elements such as hats or helmets. These I find very interesting for two reasons: one, these elements can both conceal and reveal the features of my portraits. Second, these elements can have strong connotations, which I want the viewer to question. By decontextualizing these symbols, I want to make the obvious questionable and provoke the viewer into reexamining their initial interpretations.
My focus therefore is on creating sculptures that allow the viewer to question our tendency of jumping to conclusions, or our desire to categorize everything into definable boxes. Ironically, from my point of view, I have brought no specific meaning to each of these pieces. They are visually engaging and provocative but their exact meaning is unresolved and requires further thought.
In this way I strive to prompt in the viewer an emotional response that will lead to a dialogue between the sculpture and the viewer. I want my sculptures to engage people in a thinking process, wondering and questioning what at first seemed “obvious.” It is a process deliberately directed to be open to each individual’s interpretation.
I feel it is not my responsibility to tell stories through my work but to present the necessary elements so people can build their own.
Kathleen Huggard
Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship Award
Images
Untitled, watercolor and charcoal on canvas, 20 x 24 in.
Blue Hydrangea, oil and charcoal on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
Untitled, oil on linen, 23 x 17 in.
Education
The Art Students League of New York 2005- present
Instructors: Henry Finkelstein, Ronnie Landfield, James McElheinny and Joseph Peller
Marchutz School of Painting, Aix en Provence, France, Summer 2010
CUNY Hunter College, NYC (painting, ceramics and art history) 1998, 2005
CUNY Hunter College, NYC (TESOL) 1992-1993
CUNY, LaGuardia Community College, NYC (painting and drawing) 2009
CUNY Queens College, NYC (art history) 2008
Classes with Inez Medina, NYC (painting) 2004
AR.CO Centro de Arte & Comunicao Visual, Lisbon, Portugal (ceramics) 1995
SUNY FIT, NYC (design and marketing) 1984-88
Marshall Jones
Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship Award
Images
Hum in the Room 3, 2012, oil on wood, 18 x 24 in.
Hum in the Room 4, , 2012, oil on wood, 18 x 24 in.
Mick, 2012, oil on canvas, 24 x 32 in.
Education
The Art Students League of New York 2005-2009
Instructors: Michael Grimaldi, Sharon Sprung, Dan Gheno, Costa Vavagiakis, Dan Thompson, Gregg Kreutz
Exhibitions
2012 Curators Choice, Panepinto Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2011 Affordable Art Fair, NYC
2011 Figure Now, Fontbonne University Gallery, St Louis, MO
2010 Grant Winners Exhibition, Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC
Website
marshalljonesart.com
Kathryn Keller Larkins
Fantasy Fountain Fund Scholarship Award
Images
Gare du Nord II, 2011, watercolor on Arches Paper, 44 x 30 in.
Opera View II, 2011, watercolor on Arches paper, 36 x 48 in.
FDR Drive, 2009, watercolor on Arches paper, 36 x 48 in.
Education
The Art Students League of New York 2006 – 2012
Instructor: Paul Ching-Bor
Exhibitions
2012 Grant Winners Show, The Art Students League of New York City, NY, NY
2012 Red Dot Show, The Art Students League of New York City, NY, NY
2012 145th Annual International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, NY, NY
2011 Small Works Show, The Art Students League of New York City, NY, NY
2011 Red Dot Show, The Art Students League of New York City, NY, NY
2011 (Solo Show) Transportation, Shrine World Music Venue, NY, NY
2010-2011 Expressions in Watercolor, Publicis Healthcare Communication Group, NY, NY
2010 Class Show, Paris American Academy, Paris, France
Website
http://www.behance.net/kellerlarkins
Jung ah Kim
Lloyd Shrewood Grant
Education
The Art Students League of New York, 2009-2011
Instructors: Bruce Dorfman
Seoul National University, Korea, BFA 2007
Alejandro Leal
Image
Maria, oil on canvas, 10 ½ x 14 ½ in.
Education
The Art Students League of New York, 2006-2012
Instructors: Costa Vavagiakis, Nelson Shanks, Ephraim Rubenstein, Frank Porcu, Sherry Camhy, Michael Grimaldi
Ducret School of Art, 2006
Instructor: Timothy Jahn
Exhibitions
Artists and Monitors, The Alex Adam Gallery, New York, NY, 2009
Christopher LoPresti, Jr.
Phyllis Mason Grant
Images
Jun (Detail), 30 x 40 in.
Dos Cabezas, Arizona, 12 x 9 in.
Singing, 12 x 20 in.
Education
The Art Students League of New York, 2008-2012
Instructors: Costa Vavagiakis, Michael Grimaldi, Frank Porcu
The New York Academy, 2006-2008
George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., 2001-2005
Website
www.loprestiarts.com
Kazuya Morimoto
Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant
The Kuniyoshi Award
Images
Vulnerable City
Education
The Art Factory Institute of Art (Japan), with Makoto Arimichi
The Art Students League, 2000–2012
Instructors: Frank O'Cain, William Scharf, Charles Hinman,
Rick Pantell, Mary Beth Mckenzie, Leonid Lerman
Awards
All from The Art Students League of New York:
2004 Merit Scholarship
2006 Xavier Gonzalez and Ethel Edwards Travel Grant
2010 Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant
2011 Lloyd Sherwood Grant
2012 The Kuniyoshi Award
Exhibitions
2012 New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Library
2011 New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Library
Website
www.kazuyamorimoto.carbonmade.com
www.kazuya.carbonmade.com
Jonathan Niborg Speier
Kuniyoshi Award
Education
The Art Students League of New York, 2007-2011
Instructors: Bruce Dorfman, Larry Poons, Ronnie Landfield, Kikuo Saito, Costa Vavagiakis
Brown University, Providence, RI, 1998-2001
Les Ateliers UPIC, Massy, France, 1995
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1993-1995
Charlene Tarbox
Michael Ponce de Leon Printmaking Award
Images
Green Smoke Kimono, 2011, monotype with etching ink on Nepalese paper
Arctic Hare, 2012, monotype with etching ink on Nepalese paper
Stargazer Lily, 2012, monotype with etching ink on Nepalese paper
Education
The Art Students League of New York
Instructors: Richard Pantell, Ellen Eagle, Bill Behnken, Timothy Clark, Peter Golfinopoulos and Christine Jordan, Anthony Palumbo, John Hultberg
The Cooper Union (Book Arts) 2005
Philadelphia College of Art B.F.A. 1967-1970
Connecticut College 1965-1967
Exhibitions
Exhibition Outreach Group Show at A.T. Kearny, NY, NY 2012
Inked Up, The Arsenal in Central Park, NY. NY 2011
ASL Merit Scholarship Exhibition 2011
Affordable Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, NY, NY 2008
New Yorkers by New Yorkers, Presbyterian Church, NY, NY 2008
Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2008
Art of Persuasion, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY 2008
NY Etchers Salon 2007, National Arts Club, New York, NY 2007
ASL Merit Scholarship Exhibition (prints) 2007
The Printed Image III, Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2007
Art of Persuasion, Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY 2007
Pen and Brush Juried Exhibition 2006
Audubon Artists Inc. 64th Annual Exhibition (Salmagundi Club), New York, NY
Harnett Biennial of American Prints, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond , Richmond, Virginia 2006
Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY 2005
Gallery of Graphic Arts, New York, NY 2004
The Lobby Gallery, New York, NY 2004
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY 1997
Art at the Magistrates’ Court, Brooklyn, NY 1993
Gallery 66 (one-woman show), East Hampton N.Y. 1984
David L. 10, New York, NY 1982
BFM Gallery, New York, NY 1981
The Educational Alliance (one-woman show), New York, NY 1980
National Art Center, New York, NY 1980
Women in the Arts, New York, NY 1979
Court Hill Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1979
Gallery La Grande Illusion, New York, NY 1979
Boston City Hall (one-woman show) 1978
Manteca Gallery, Boston, MA 1977
Andover Gallery of Fine Arts, Andover, MA 1974
Website
http://ctarbo4.wix.com/charlene-tarbox-art
Matt White
Nessa Cohen Grant
Image
Maria, 2012, aqua-resin, life-size
Education
The Art Students League of New York 2005-2012
Instructors: Barney Hodes, Frank Porcu, Costa Vavagiakis Michael Grimaldi and Dan Thompson
Grand Central Academy of Art, New York, NY 2011-2012
Exhibitions
Governor's Island Art Fair, NYC September 2012
Model to Monument 2011-2012, Riverside Park, NYC
Grant Winner's Exhibit, ASL, 2011
Greenpoint Sculpture Wall, Brooklyn, NY, long-term installation
Website
mattwhitesculpture.com
Eduardo Yunda
Xavier and Ethel Edwards Gonzalez Grant
Images
From the series Scars and Mendings in the Quest for El Dorado
Education
The Art Students League, 2003- 2010
Instructors: Robert Cenedella, Anthony Palumbo, William Scharf
Knox Martin, Bruce Dorfman, Grace Knowlton, Mariano del Rosario
La Salle College, 2002
Fine Arts, San Alejandro, Habana, Cuba, 1998-2001
More About the Images
These paintings are from the series "Scars and Mendings in the Quest for El Dorado." They are all mixed media on canvas, wood, burlap and other recycled materials from the land of El Dorado.
El Dorado (the gilded one), is a legend about a mythical land, so rich that during the conquest of the new world (America), the inhabitants bathed and covered themselves with gold dust, filled some rafts with gold objects and precious stones, sailed to the middle of this sacred round lagoon, and offered their gods all these jewels by throwing them to the water.
When these stories reached Spanish ears, a frenetic quest for this treasure was unleashed, leaving behind a trail of poverty, fear and death.
This lagoon and these people were 20 minutes away from what today is Bogotá, Colombia, the city I am from. Today the story is still the same, the gold fever is still burning as well as the oil fever, the emerald, the flora, the fauna, and the favorite and most profitable of all: the cocaine fever.
Every treasure brings its curse. With the arrival of the "civilized" world and the "free marketization" of their beliefs and resources, these people who once bathed in gold and abundance, woke up one day bathed in blood and misery; their culture and traditions were violated, and then sank into a dark shade of fear and ignorance, trying to survive the policies imposed by their new master, conqueror, exploiter and slayer who turned them - without them wanting or knowing, into predators of their own species...
Little by little, they built up pieces of the patchwork of what used to be, of what was left - and between mistakes and strokes of luck, Colombia staggered into the future. All the while watching how its land and people were bled to death by the exploitation and theft of treasures that they didn’t even get to smell. Carrying on its flesh, the scars of this story and inventing the mendings to survive it.
Website
www.laloyunda.com
Bernard Zalon
Images
1. In the Heights, 2010, etching, aquatint, 12 x 18 in.
2. Pebbles, 2008, 3-plate etching, aquatint, 12 x 12 in.
3. Vertigo, 2012, 2-plate etching, aquatint with surface roll and hand coloring, 11 x 14 in.
4. Meteor Crater, NYC, 2012, two-plate etching, 7 x 12 in.
Education
The Art Students League of New York 1981-present
Instructors: Roberto De La Monica, Michael Ponce De Leon, Michael Pellettieri
Exhibitions
Buffet Five Art Gallery, Wakayama, Japan 2000
Website
bernardzalon.com
Email
etchingsbyzalon@yahoo.com