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"Visions of America: A Black Perspective" featured on NY1 News.

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:51:00 GMT

ACA's February exhibition, Visions of America: A Black Perspective was featured on NY1 News.

Watch the feature here.

Patricia Tobacco Forrester (1940-2011)

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:49:00 GMT

ACA mourns the passing of Patricia Tobacco Forrester. Read her obituary in The Washington Post here.

John Dobbs (1931-2011)

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:49:00 GMT

ACA Galleries mourns the passing of John Dobbs on August 9, 2011.

Born in Nutley, New Jersey, John Dobbs won scholarships to attend the Brooklyn Museum Art School and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 1950-52. He began teaching in 1956 at his alma mater, the Brooklyn Museum Art School where he was an instructor until 1959. He continued teaching art at the New School for Social Research from 1964 – 1972 and then at John Jay College from 1972 – 1996, with year long appointments at the National Academy of Design in 1978 and the Art Students League in 1982. Since his 1959 debut exhibition he has continued to exhibit regularly throughout the United States.

An accomplished draftsman, Dobbs’ paintings depict a wide range of subjects from contemporary politics, urban landscapes and portraits to interior scenes. His recent show at ACA ( Seeking Equilibrium/Disequilibrium on view December 11, 2010-January 29, 2011) featured his series on “balance and imbalance, equilibrium and disequilibrium; moving between the one and the other, trying not to fall”. Inspired by observations and experiences from his own life, he drew on his memories and impressions as a source for his work.

His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH and Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MA.

He is the recipient of many grants and awards including the Emily Lowe Award from the Audubon Artists (1965); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (1967), the Childe Hassam Purchase prize (1972) and the Art Award (1994) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1976 and has been awarded the Benjamin Altman Prize (1978), the Ranger Fund Purchase Prize (1980); the Leila Gardin Sawyer Prize (1983); the Grumbacher Gold Medal (1989), and Edwin Palmer Award (1991).

Judy Chicago and "Pacific Standard Time"

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:24:00 GMT

Judy Chicago, one of the key figures in the Southern California post-war art scene, has been actively working with Pacific Standard Time this year to bring attention to the region's arts and culture. Chicago earned both her BFA and MFA at UCLA and established the "Feminist Art Program: Womanhouse" at the California Institute of Arts in the early 1970s.

Listen to Judy Chicago's remarks on "Pacific Standard Time" here on NPR.

Chicago's presence at "Pacific Standard Time" was also featured on ARTINFO's website, read the interview here.

Chicago tells LA Weekly " What I Learned from Male Chauvinists."

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Chicago about her past and present experience in the southern Californian art scene, read the article here.

Image from newyorker.com.

NY1 News features ACA Galleries on "Your Weekend Starts Now"

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:39:00 GMT

ACA's fall exhibition, Shamanic Illuminations, was included on NY1's "Your Weekend Starts Now" this weekend.

Come visit the exhibition, on view through October 22, and watch the feature here.

Judy Chicago named one of ArtInfo's Women who Shook Up the Art World in 2011

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:52:00 GMT

ACA artist Judy Chicago has been featured on artinfo.com as one of 2011's Women who Shook Up the Art World. In 2011 Chicago had multiple solo museum and gallery shows and was an active participant with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative.

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Judy Chicago on NPR

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:56:00 GMT

Judy Chicago was recently interviewed by NPR to discuss her new book, Frida Kahlo: Face to Face (written with Frances Borzello, Prestel, 2010).

Listen to the interview here.

New York Observer reviews Judy Chicago

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:24:00 GMT

Judy Chicago's exhibition at ACA, Surveying Judy Chicago 1970-2010 was recently reviewed in the New York Observer, read the article here.

Faith Ringgold's Neuberger show reviewed by the New York Times

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:07:00 GMT

Faith Ringgold's "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s" exhibition at the Neuberger Museum was recently reviewed by the New York Times, read the article here.

To learn more about the exhibition and the Neuberger Museum of Art visit their website.