191st Annual: Academy Style

Eric Aho, Eve Aschheim, Shimon Attie, Frances Barth, David Becker, William Beckman, Deborah Berke, Marlon Blackwell, Willard Boepple, James Bohary, Gregory Botts, Paul Broches, Tom Burckhardt, Squeak Carnwath, Henry Casselli, Carmen Cicero, Brad Cloepfil, Patricia Cronin, Robert Cronin, James Cutler, Lisa Corinne Davis, Donna Dennis, Simon Dinnerstein, Mark di Suvero, Angela Dufresne, Garth Evans, Alan Feltus, Beverly Fishman, Nancy Friese, Jeanne Gang, Dan Gilhooley, Andrew Ginzel, Judy Glantzman, Richard Gluckman with Andrew Weigand, Glenn Goldberg, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Philip Grausman, Joanne Greenbaum, Barbara Grossman, Dan Gustin, Richard Haas, Nancy Hagin, Walter Hatke, Julie Heffernan, Nona Hershey, Elana Herzog, Lisa Hoke, Eric Holzman, Diana Horowitz, David Humphrey, Valerie Jaudon, Carlos Jiménez, Ralph Johnson, Wendy Evans Joseph, Roberto Juarez, Richard Kalina, Howard Kalish, Stephen Kieran, Elizabeth King, Jonah Kinigstein, Joyce Kozloff, Harry Kramer, Karen Kunc, Tom Kundig, Leonardo Lasansky, Pat Lasch, Martin Levine, Bruno Lucchesi, Mary Lucier, Sangram Majumdar, Michael Maltzan, Mary Beth McKenzie, Julie Mehretu, Melissa Meyer, Ruth Miller, John Moore, Judith Murray, John Newman, Richard Olcott, Jim Osman, Don Perlis, Donald Porcaro, Langdon Quin, Andrew Raftery, Carole Robb, Reeve Schley, Judith Shea, Lorraine Shemesh, Jean Shin, Arthur Simms, Richard Sloat, Ed Smith, Ned Smyth, Jane South, Kyle Staver, Gary Stephan, Jessica Stockholder, Immi Storrs, Evan Summer, Barbara Takenaga, James Timberlake, Fred Tomaselli, Anita Toney, Lee Tribe, Bernard Tschumi, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Claire Van Vliet, Don Voisine, Sarah Walker, Kay WalkingStick, Leslie Wayne, Claire Weisz, Jerome Witkin, Alexi Worth, Jimmy Wright, Sharon Yates, Murray Zimiles

The 191st Annual encompasses aesthetic and conceptual approaches including abstraction, minimalism, realism, figuration, and portraiture in a range of mediums such as drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, video, architectural models, book projects, and printmaking.

Founded nearly 200 years ago in 1825, Academy Style at the National Academy has undergone many transformations over the years. Today Academy Style is diverse in practice, decidedly contemporary (members were invited to submit works made in the last three years), and reflective of an institutional identity and ethos initiated and led by artists and architects. In the earliest years of the National Academy, the artwork produced by the membership followed the English tradition in both style and method, with an emphasis on painting focused on history, landscape, and portraiture. The Academy initially engaged with the ‘arts of design’ as defined in 1825 to include painting, drawing, architecture, sculpture, and engraving. Now, nearly 200 years later, more recently elected Academicians work in mediums that had not yet entered the Western canon when the National Academy was founded: installation, moving image, printmaking, digital art and socially engaged art and architecture, among others – all examples of 21st Century Academy Style.

The 191st Annual: Academy Style is co-curated by Sara Reisman, Chief Curator, and Natalia Viera Salgado, Associate Curator.