“Eye to Eye” Exhibition

“Eye to Eye” Exhibition

New York Academy of Art

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The Academy’s acclaimed exhibition series “Eye to Eye” returns this month featuring the collection of art publicist Gina Nanni and the late writer and tastemaker Glenn O’Brien. The exhibition will showcase works by Academy student artists selected by Nanni, paired with pieces from a selection of artists including Andy Warhol, Ross Bleckner, Zanele Muholi and Carroll Dunham.

Now in its third iteration, “Eye to Eye” asks a prominent collector to select works by Academy MFA students, which are then exhibited side by side with pieces from the patron’s own collection selected by the student artists themselves. In previous years, the series has featured the collections of Laura Skoler and John L. Thomson and exhibited artists ranging from Louise Bourgeois to Marlene Dumas alongside student works. The exhibition acts as a reflection of the collector’s eye and a commentary on artistic influence and relative value.

Highlights on view for “Eye to Eye” include a 1948 painting by Gertrude Abercrombie, a midcentury Surrealist collected by Nanni and O’Brien while still relatively unknown and who was recently rediscovered by the art world, with The New York Times commenting in 2018 that Abercrombie was suddenly undergoing “a new visibility that should be coaxed into an even greater fullness.” Other notable pieces in the show are a silkscreen and acrylic seascape by Sante D’Orazio, who is primarily known as a photographer, and a North Dakota scene depicted by indigenous artist Cloud Medicine Crow. Each piece in the show is paired with a student work, inviting the viewer to seek out thematic similarities or differences.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Photography
• Prints

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