If you have one friend who believes in your dream and passion, I think that’s good enough to go.
At the League
Celebrating the Art Students League’s 2022 Grant & Scholarship Recipients
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A gallery of fifty-four award-winning submissions.
Art school was for me a dreamlike place that I never imagined existed, because it was full of people who, like me, were just trying as hard as they could, all day, to make the best picture possible.
I absolutely adore the quality of intrepid joy in people who are playfully game to try anything once and boldly go forth into the unknown.
Stories from the Collection
The Legacy of George B. Bridgman in the Work of His Students
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Seeing the names attached to these drawings, one’s imagination may be set to wondering what happened to these individuals who were so full of promise.
Winold Reiss’s greatest contribution to modern art may have been his insistence on the dignity of people, regardless of color.
When I get inspired, I feel like I can do almost anything.
Leonard Baskin addressed the Holocaust late in life and more than fifty years after the war, but when he finally confronted the theme, he did so with ferocity.
“The thing I have not achieved,” explains Casey, “is something that cannot be achieved: Not ever being complacent.”
In Christopher Gallego’s drawings, it is as if you are underwater, and all of the usual sounds, shuffles, and animation of life goes silent, and you find yourself in this sensorially pared-down but visually heightened world.
If you think it’s okay to piss on someone because they don’t like the same art as you, what reaction are you prepared to rationalize when you’re contradicted on a matter of consequence?
“I never set out to paint cocktail paintings,” explains Todd M. Casey, “but here is the story of how I got into painting them.”