What Stays and What Changes: How NYAA Shaped the Work I Make Today
Skye Richardson
What Stays and What Changes: How NYAA Shaped the Work I Make Today
Skye Richardson
When Dina Sturm arrived at the New York Academy of Art in 2017, she had already spent years painting on her own — self-taught, instinct-driven, resistant to anything that felt academic. What she found at NYAA surprised her. “I expected to be given rules,” she says. “Instead I was given tools.”
Sturm’s paintings now hang in collections across the country. Her recent solo show at a Bushwick gallery sold out within its first week. But she is still thinking about her time at NYAA, still processing what transferred from the classroom into her daily practice. Body text continues, additional paragraphs follow here. Body text continues, additional paragraphs follow here. Body text continues. Body text continues.
Peter Drake’s art has been featured in 27 Solo exhibitions to date. His work is held in numerous private, corporate and public collections including the Whitney Museum of Art, Phoenix Museum of Art, MOCA LA, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the L.A. County Museum of Art, among others. Waiting For Toydot, his permanent public art commission, awarded by MTA Arts & Design features 18 art glass windows and 5 ceramic/glass mosaics installed throughout the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) Massapequa Train Station. It opened to the public in 2015 and is seen by over 6,000 commuters daily.
What Stays and What Changes: How NYAA Shaped the Work I Make Today
Peter Drake’s art has been featured in 27 Solo exhibitions to date. His work is held in numerous private, corporate and public collections including the Whitney Museum of Art, Phoenix Museum of Art, MOCA LA, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the L.A. County Museum of Art, among others. Waiting For Toydot, his permanent public art commission, awarded by MTA Arts & Design features 18 art glass windows and 5 ceramic/glass mosaics installed throughout the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) Massapequa Train Station. It opened to the public in 2015 and is seen by over 6,000 commuters daily.
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