New American Paintings

11/05/2024

🎉Our 2024 MFA Call for Artists has been EXTENDED!🎉⁠
Tap the link in our bio to have your work featured with 40 incredible MFA Candidates and recent grads.⁠ If you apply to this call, you also qualify for our Emerging Artist Grant! Go to our pinned post to learn how to participate.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 11.10.2024⁠
11:59 pm (EST)⁠⁠
JUROR: Caitlin Chaisson
Curatorial Assistant, MoMA, New York
All current MFA candidates and recent graduates are eligible to apply (grad year 2022-2024+). This is our only competition with any kind of schooling requirement. ⁠
A $50 application fee is required to apply. If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.⁠⁠⁠⁠

10/30/2024

Details and full view of an incredible new work by Rebecca Ness on view now
Rebecca Ness
Massacre of the innocents, 2024
Oil on linen
70 x 90 inches

10/24/2024

Congratulations to KEITH JACKSON who opens his first New York solo exhibition with Charles Moffett tomorrow, October 25th.
“The Provocateurs” depicts scenes from the 1939 Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri, a brave and powerful collective action taken by more than 1,500 men, women, and children, to protest against the racist and impoverishing implementation of New Deal agricultural policy. This policy directly impacted Jackson’s family who “lost the farm in the flood” as a result of the federal government’s decision to break the Mississippi River levee.

10/23/2024

🥳THE NAP EMERGING ARTIST GRANT IS BACK!🥳
Scroll down for details and how to enter!
We are thrilled to announce our fifth annual Emerging Artist Grant!
WHAT YOU WIN:
1. A $1,000 Emerging Artist Grant

2. A spread in New American Paintings 2024 MFA Edition

3. A dedicated carousel post on our instagram

**The top 4 finalists will receive a dedicated Instagram post and a free entry for a future call for artists**
TO ENTER, YOU MUST:

1. Apply to our current MFA Call for Artists by the final deadline (link in bio!)

2. Post a new image of your work and use the hashtag and tag our account in the image

3. Follow us and tag a fellow candidate/grad in the comments ❤️
Our Editor will select the 4 finalists and you will decide the winner!! Tune in to vote on our instagram and help us decide who should be the 2024 Emerging Artist Grant Recipient 🎓❤️

10/14/2024

NAP alum Jonathan Gardner opens a solo with Casey Kaplan on November 7th.

10/11/2024

🎉Our 2024 MFA Call for Artists is now open!🎉⁠
Tap the link in our bio to have your work featured with 40 incredible MFA Candidates and recent grads.⁠
JUROR: CAITLIN CHAISSON
MoMA, New York
Curatorial Assistant
DEADLINE: 10.31.2024⁠
11:59 pm (EST)⁠⁠
All current MFA candidates and recent graduates are eligible to apply (grad year 2022-2024+). This is our only competition with any kind of schooling requirement. ⁠
A $50 application fee is required to apply. If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.⁠⁠⁠⁠

10/08/2024

✨Swipe through to see our ten MUST-SEE paintings at Frieze London 2024 ✨ congratulations to all of the NAP Alumni on view❤️

1:
Aubrey Levinthall
NAP Alum Northeast Issue # 116 (2015)
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Booth # D17
Sea Wall (Brigantine), 2024, oil on panel, 37.4 x 37.4 inches


2:
Eleanor Swordy
NAP Alum Northeast Issue # 134 (2018)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin/Paris/London
Booth # B15
Dyeing, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches


3:
Doron Langberg
NAP Alum MFA Annual Issue # 93 (2011)
Victoria Miro, London/Venice
Booth # D10
Pete and Horatio, oil on linen, 80 x 96 inches


4:
Hayley Barker
NAP Alum Pacific Coast Issue # 79 (2008)
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Booth # D17
Climbing Roses, 2024, oil on linen, 101.6 x 83.5 inches


5:
Heidi Hahn
NAP Alum Northeast Issue # 134 (2018)
Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf
Booth # B08
Untitled and In Place 2, 2024, oil on canvas, 56 x 45 inches


6:
Jake Longstreth
NAP Alum MFA and Pacific Coast Issues (2004, 2008, 2013, and 2017)
Galerie Max Hetzler,
Booth # B15
Civil War Battleground 1, 2023, oil on canvas, 84 x 120 inches


7:
Jeanette Mundt
NAP Alum Northeast Issue # 86 (2010)
Société, Berlin
Booth # A18
Excessively Emotional & L***y, 2023, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches


8:
Lyn Liu
NAP Alum MFA Annual Issue # 159 (2022)
THE BREEDER, Athens
Booth # B31
Unbefitting-sweater, 2023, oil on linen, 46 x 33 inches


9:
Umar Rashid (Frohawk Twofeathers)
NAP Alum Pacific Coast Issue # 73 (2007)
Tiwani Contemporary, London/Lagos
Booth # D06
Terror in the Alps, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches


10:
Yuri Yuan
NAP Alum Northeast and MFA Issues (2020 and 2023)
Make Room, Los Angeles
Booth # F03
In the Field, 2024, oil on linen, 48 x 60 inches
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09/24/2024

CHARLES ANTHONY COOPER featured in New American Paintings Northeast No. 170 🎉⁠⁠
Selections by Amy Sherald ⁠
⁠This issue is now available on our website! Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 emerging and under-represented artists working in the Northeastern United States. 💌📖⁠⁠
Self-Portrait with Moonlight
Oil on wood panel
12 x 11 inches
“⁠My art delves into the intricate connection between personal and cultural identity, exploring the interplay of conscious and subconscious elements. It draws inspiration from personal experiences and my immediate surroundings, driven by a keen interest in human psychology and our pursuit of purpose and meaning. Within my work, I blur boundaries between observation, memory, dream, and fantasy, allowing enigmatic and ambiguous narratives to emerge, revealing personal mythologies and establishing fresh connections and patterns of meaning. Through this intensely personal exploration, I strive to uncover elements of universal significance, creating multifaceted narratives that invite diverse interpretations.”⁠
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09/12/2024

✨Swipe through to see our ten *MUST SEE* painting exhibitions of September 2024✨⁠
Image 1:
Anthony Cudahy: “Fool’s gold” and “Fool’s errand”
Hales Gallery, New York and GRIMM, New York
Both run September 6 - October 19, 2024

Image 2:
Danielle McKinney: Haven
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
September 7 – October 26, 2024

Image 3:
Soumya Netrabile (NAP Upcoming Midwest Issue): holding current
Rachel Uffner, New York
September 6 - October 19, 2024

Image 4:
Srijon Chowdhury (NAP Alum Pacific Coast Issues #157, 2021 and upcoming Issue # 175): Tapestry
PPOW, New York
September 6 - October 19, 2024

Image 5:
Joshua Hagler (NAP Alum West Issue # 150, 2020): Nihil III / Already Paradise
NICODIM, New York
September 3 - October 12, 2024

Image 6:
Hilary Pecis (NAP Alum Pacific Coast Issues # 67 and #79, 2006 and 2008): Warm Rhythm
David Kordansky, New York
September 4 - October 12, 2024

Image 7:
John Dilg (NAP Alum Midwest Issue # 11, 1997 ): Planet on the Prairie
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
August 31 - November 2, 2024

Image 8:
Amanda Ba: Developing Desire
Jeffrey Deitch, New York
September 7 - October 26, 2024

Image 9:
Brittney Leeanne Williams: The Form in Which the Spirit Dresses
Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
August 10 - October 5, 2024

Image 10:
Gina Beavers (NAP Alum Northeast Issue # 116, 2015): Divine Consumer
Marianne Boesky, New York
September 5 - October 5, 2024

# grimm

09/09/2024

09/03/2024

HAMZAT INCORPORATED opens Massachusettsmode, a solo exhibition with this Friday from 5:30-8pm
Public reception: Friday, September 6, 5:30-8pm
Artist talk with Julie Beck : Saturday, September 7, 3pm
“Hamzat Incorporated (ne Raheem) is a muslim, post-human artist whose practice is amplified by areas of knowledge that expand beyond the fine arts, chiefly technology and business. For Hamzat, the contemporary artist is an entity that should be concerned not just with aesthetic production, but with branding, marketing and the myriad other disciplines that allow corporations to effectively function in a global economy. Global is a key concept for the artist. To this end, Hamzat has led a peripatetic lifestyle with varying periods of time spent in Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, New York, Berlin and Portugal. His academic history has been global as well, and includes studies at Kyoto Seika University, mastering marble carving techniques at the Studio della Statua in Florence, and earning his B.F.A. in 2017 at the Cooper Union. Massachusettsmode is an exhibition that serves as a unifying gesture, connecting the practices of the home and mobile studio, and more broadly, bridging the artist’s internal world with the external world through personally cultivated tools of navigation.”

08/27/2024

Congratulations to NAP Alum Ann Toebbe on opening a new site-specific installation titled TORNADO WARNING at Process Art Space in The Mill 🌪️🏠

“Evoking the midwestern skies at the onset of a tornado, an emerald green glow is your guide through Ann Toebbe’s mother’s basement just as it must have been in 1985. Tornado Warning is a theatrical rendition of Toebbe’s childhood, in which you are the performer. Through low light you find your way past the spool table overloaded with laundry detergent (hinting at a mother’s work which is never done), to the safety nook underneath the stairs which Mrs. Toebbe made cozy with a blanket, candlelight and nostalgic crackers. A concurrently scary and magical space to wait out the storm while time stands still.”

08/20/2024

KYNDACEE HARRIS featured in New American Paintings Pacific Coast No. 169 🎉⁠⁠
Selections by Jennifer King
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art ⁠
⁠This issue is now available on our website! Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 emerging and under-represented artists working on the Pacific Coast. 💌📖⁠⁠
Valley Girls
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
“I was born and raised in a family of picture framers and my parents only sold Black art. This sparked an obsession with capturing my people – friends, family, and even myself starting as young as 9 years old. Being surrounded by art in my parent’s shop and watching way too many movies, I understood that just by framing a moment a certain way, you could tell a story. This love for economic storytelling led me to screenwriting and copywriting but as time went on, I used less and less words and began to paint pictures. A lot of my work is based on photographs I captured as a young girl as well as moments that are universally captured when one is coming of age like going to the mall to take portraits with a young love or having to sit still for a family portrait. Image making and painting has created a portal where I can engage with my younger self, now as a woman who has the power to interpret and express herself fully.”⁠⁠
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08/18/2024

SHYAMA GOLDEN featured in New American Paintings Pacific Coast No. 169 🎉⁠⁠
Selections by Jennifer King
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art ⁠
⁠This issue is now available on our website! Tap the link in our bio to get your copy and discover 40 emerging and under-represented artists working on the Pacific Coast. 💌📖⁠⁠
Carry On
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
“My current works populate a parallel dimension with a cast of characters which include vine-covered trees suggestive of human archetypes, Sri Lankan Yakkas from exorcism rituals, and self-portraiture. They are set in a reconstruction of Los Angeles that exists in my mind, but much like the real place, it is littered with trash and multiple versions of myself locked in existential struggle. The narratives in the work tend to be autobiographical renderings of my emotional landscape. They are intended to capture the reality of a feeling, giving form to an ongoing process of reinvention and rebirth synchronized with a world undergoing its own social and political transformations.”⁠⁠
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08/16/2024

08/13/2024

Temi Edun now on view in NIGHT SWIMMING: New American Paintings 2024 Review at Steven Zevitas Gallery

Temi Edun
Emissary of the Oracles, 2024
Oil stick on canvas
33 x 24 inches (83.8 x 61 cm)

07/31/2024

NAP alum Shyama Golden now on view in NIGHT SWIMMING: New American Paintings 2024 Summer Review.
Shyama Golden
Untitled, 2024
Acrylic on panel
8 x 6 inches (20.3 x 15.2 cm)