The New York Studio Program - AICAD
The Faculty
Critique Faculty | Critical Seminar Faculty | Contemporary Art Seminar Faculty | Director and Internship Faculty
Critique Faculty
Glenn Goldberg | Painter
Glenn Goldberg lives and works in New York City where he pursues his painting career and teaches at Cooper Union School of Art and the New York Studio Program, Glenn Goldberg is a painter of richly colored, luminous decorative designs and objects in both abstract and realist styles. Many of his works are geometric and resemble kaleidoscopes, stained glass, or "fantastic flowers". It has been suggested that his work "tickles" the eye.
Born 1953 in Bronx, New York, Glenn Goldberg is commonly known for his non-objective work and mod designs. Often present in his abstractions are elements that seem to evoke the image of natural objects, such as birds, flowers, cells or water. Glen Goldberg studied at the New York Studio School, and received his MFA from Queens College.
He has been represented by Willard and Knoedler Galleries, and has received grants from the Edward Albee Foundation, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Glen Goldberg’s work is included in the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum collections, among others.
He has been a critique faculty of the New York Studio Program since 1993.
Link to a Glenn Goldberg website: http://www.paceprints.com/artistportfolio/artistportfolio.asp?aID=31
Pamela Lins | Sculptor
“All the places we dream of going have always been accessible from the living room couch.”
Pam Lins refers to her work primarily as sculpture. Through it she contemplates the social and psychological with regard to material, process, and approach. In addition to sculpture, her wide range of adoptive methods includes painting, gardening and fiction writing. Over the past 15 years her work has encompassed both studio and project-based practices which investigate the parameters of sculpture, ones' physical approach to the work, and the beauty of failure. In addition, the work contemplates the relationship of the built environment to the landscape, homages to past art and artists, the history of sculpture, animals, global warming, plants, Buster Keaton, the residual use of logos, hollowness, and witchcraft.
Lins' work has been shown in Europe, Canada and the US. In New York her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Silo NY, Harris Leiberman Gallery, Sarah Meltzer Gallery, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, White Columns, Artists Space, Momenta Art, Art in General, Sculpture Center and Socrates Sculpture Park.
Lins has been a critique faculty at the New York Studio Program since 1999 and she currently teaches at The Cooper Union School of Art. She has also taught at Princeton, the Fashion Institute of Technology and numerous other institutions. She received her BA in Photography from the University of Minnesota and earned her MFA at Hunter College. She has received awards from The Howard Foundation (2007)and the Pollack/Krasner Foundation.
Pamela Lins is a recipient of the 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for the Arts.
Link to a Pamela Lins website: http://www.artwurl.org/interviews/INT025.html
Critical Seminar Faculty
Dominique Nahas | Art Writer, Critic and Curator
Dominique Nahas was born in France and emigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager. He graduated in 1980 from School of Visual Arts as an undergraduate in painting and sculpture. The subject of his 1985 master’s dissertation at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts was Nancy Spero’s Torture of Women series and the seminal Codex Artaud work. A regular reviews contributor to Art in America, Mr. Nahas has written hundreds of articles and reviews for a wide variety of art publications such as ArtNews, Flash Art, Art On Paper, New Art Examiner, Artnet Worldwide, Art Asia-Pacific, New Observations, C, Chelsea Arts, dArt International, and TRANS among many other periodicals.
He has been referred to and quoted as an expert in contemporary art in The New York Times three times in 2001 in conjunction with his curatorial efforts. Mr. Nahas has served on selection committees and critique panels for arts organizations such as the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in General, PS 122, AIR Gallery, ISCP, Exit Art, Dieu Donné Papermill, Henry Street Settlement, Aljira, the ART-OMI International Artists Residency Program and the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center.
A regular contributor and editorial board member of REVIEW Magazine from 1996-2000, he is currently the New York editor of dART International, a leading arts quarterly. One of the leading museum and gallery catalog essayists in the country Mr. Nahas is the former Curator of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture at Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York and the former director of the Neuberger Museum at SUNY-Purchase.
Dominique Nahas is an independent curator and critic based in Manhattan. He is Associate Professor at Pratt Institute where he teaches critical studies; He is currently the 2008-9 Critic-in-Residence at the Hoffberger Graduate School at Maryland Institute College of Art. Mr. Nahas has curated and co-curated many gallery and museum exhibitions over the years. A small selection includes “Nancy Spero-Works Since 1951” - New Museum 1988, “Public Mind: Les Levine’s Media Sculpture and Mass Ad Campaigns 1969-1990” Everson Museum 1990, “Bypass” Kunstmuseum-Bonn 1997, “PopSurrealism” (with Ingrid Schaffner, Richard Klein) - Aldrich Museum 1998, “Brooklyn!” (with Michael Rush) Palm Beach ICA 2001, “Japan:Rising” (with Michael Rush) - Palm Beach ICA 2003, “Empires and Environments” (with Margaret Evangeline) - Rose Art Museum 2008.
He has been a seminar and critique faculty and visiting artist coordinator of the New York Studio Program since 1998.
Link to a Dominique Nahas website: http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Nahas,%20Dominique
Contemporary Art Seminar Faculty
Jan Avgikos | Art Critic and Writer
Born in New Orleans, Jan Avgikos is a New York-based art critic and writer/contributing editor for Artforum, Art in America, Lacan Ink, Tema Celeste, Acme Journal, Flash Art and Parkett. She received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for best art journalism in 1995. She has studied at the University of Paris The Sorbonne, Georgia State University, Atlanta (B.A., Magna Cum Laude) and Columbia University (M.A. Summa Cum Laude).
She has been or is currently faculty at Yale University Graduate School of Art, New York University Graduate School of Art, Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts, and School of Visual Arts Graduate Program. She has been a seminar and critique faculty at the New York Studio Program since 1993.
Link to some Jan Avgikos websites: http://www.lacan.com/perfume/avgikos.html ; http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Jan_Avgikos.html
Director and Internship Faculty
John Tomlinson | Artist in Drawing and Motion Drawing Video
Born in Boston, he has lived in New York City since 1961.
From 1961 to 1969 he participated in the counter-culture and anti-Vietnam War movements. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1970. He taught drawing in the Fine Arts Department of Parsons The New School for Design from 1980 to 2001. He has been director of the New York Studio Program since 1992. He lives in Manhattan and has a house and studio in the Delaware River Highlands in Sullivan County, New York State, where he is active artistically, in the environmental movement and in the community.
His one-person show in New York, at the Painting Center, “small gestures / MODES OF ESCAPE”, was reviewed in the New York Times, March 1999.
He presented a digital video work, “small gestures / MODES OF ESCAPE”, an extensive digital video of “drawings in motion” and musical compositions at the DIGit Media Arts Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY, and at the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA.
He will exhibit his portrait drawings from the 1980s at the Brattleboro, Vermont, Museum of Art in 2008–2009.
He will have a one-person show of four decades of his drawings and recent videos at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery in 2009.
Link to John Tomlinson website: http://www.johnwTomlinson.com