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INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION OF VISUAL ARTS AT THE
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS

MARCH 12 - APRIL 5, 2009
Thursdays through Sundays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.


Charles Gaines Manifestos, 2008. Video and sound installtion, 20' across. Courtesy of Kent Gallery, New York.

February 13, 2009 - Over 100 paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, and works on paper by 30 contemporary artists will be exhibited at the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace (Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets) from Thursday, March 12 through Sunday, April 5, 2009. Exhibiting artists were chosen from a pool of more than 170 nominees submitted by the 250 members of the Academy, America's most prestigious honorary society of architects, artists, writers, and composers.

The Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts will feature many works on view for the first time in New York, including an installation by Jeesoo Lee, sculptures by Brian Tolle and Stephen Antonakos, collage by Stephen Talasnik, and paintings by Hilary Harkness, Duncan Johnson, Stanley Lewis, Beverly McIver, Jeffrey Reed, Celia Reisman, and Nancy Wissemann-Widrig.


Diana Al-Hadid The Problem of Infinite Collapse, 2008. Mixed media, 126" x 157" x 133". Courtesy of the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York.
Photo: Tom Powell

Hilary Harkness Alice at Loggerheads, 2008-09. Oil on aluminum, 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York.

Beverly McIver Private Party, 2008. Oil on canvas, 36" x 48". Courtesy of LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe.

Brian Tolle Old Glory, 2008. Wheelchair and platinum silicon rubber, 36" x 24" x 36". Courtesy of the artist and CRG Gallery, New York.

EXHIBITION ARTISTS

Painters: Jake Berthot, Charles Cajori, John Dubrow, Ann Gale, April Gornik, Hilary Harkness, Elisa Jensen, Duncan Johnson, Mark Karnes, Stanley Lewis, Tine Lundsfryd, Chris Martin, Beverly McIver, Harry Naar, David Nelson, Jim Nutt, Jeffrey Reed, Celia Reisman, Harriet Shorr, Susan Jane Walp, and Nancy Wissemann-Widrig.

Installation and mixed-media artists: Charles Gaines, Jeesoo Lee, and Stephen Talasnik.

Photographers: Gregory Crewdson and Judy Linn.

Sculptors: Diana Al-Hadid, Stephen Antonakos, Roxy Paine, and Brian Tolle.


Gregory Crewdson Untitled (Kent Street), 2007. Archival inkjet print, 58 1/2" x 89 1/2". Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.

Chris Martin The Popcorn, 2007-08. Oil, collage, and spray paint on canvas, 54 1/2" x 45 1/2". Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.

Stephen Talasnik Modern Measurement, 2008. Collage on panel, 72" x 60". Courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York.

Ann Gale Self Portrait With Blue Stripes, 2007. Oil on masonite, 14" x 11". Courtesy of Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco.

The Academy's Art Awards and Purchase Programs

The Academy's art awards and purchase programs serve to acknowledge artists at various stages of their careers, from helping to establish younger artists to rewarding older artists for their accumulated body of work. Paintings and works on paper are eligible for purchase and placement in museum collections nationwide through the Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds. Works by Bruce Davidson (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA), Gordon Moore (The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA), David Moreno (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA), and Trevor Winkfield (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA) are among the fifteen placements made last year. Reginald Marsh and Guy Pene du Bois were some of the program's earliest beneficiaries. Since the purchase program's founding in 1946, through the legacy of Childe Hassam, more than one thousand works have been purchased and donated to museums throughout the country.
Click here for more information about the awards program.

Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts

Admission Free
Dates   Thursday, March 12 through Sunday, April 5, 2009
Hours   Thursdays through Sundays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location   Audubon Terrace on Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets
Directions   Subway: #1 to 157 Street; Bus: M4, M5 to 155 Street and Broadway

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