2023 Final Project Exhibition

The Art Students League of New York is proud to present our annual Final Project Exhibition, curated by Director and Curator of the gallery Ksenia Nouril, PhD with Anki King, Associate Director. The League's Certificate Program is a two or four-year course of intensive study designed to cultivate artistic growth within the League’s renowned atelier system that leads to professional certification in one of five disciplines: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Drawing or Mixed Media. Featuring 15 artists, the Final Project Exhibition offers graduating students the opportunity to present a cohesive body of work that represents their selected discipline.

‍

@ASLNYC #ASLNYC #LeagueFinalProjects

‍

‍

‍

This year’s exhibition features work by 15 Certificate Program Graduates:

‍

• Susana Aldanondo makes bold and wildly abstract paintings influenced by music as well as the public space, where she often paints.
• Pin Hsin (Cynthia) Chu is a sculptor and ceramicist who creates figurative sculptures inspired by the purities of childhood.
• Jeremy Day brings an intricate, technical exploration to his printmaking practice, producing landscape series that focus on elements from the natural world such as trees, pathways, and cloud formations.
• Anne-Joëlle Galley utilizes bright, saturated color palettes in her mixed-media works that incorporate aspects of painting and printmaking.
• Stephen Knight is a figurative painter attuned to light and the shadows it casts over the human form.
• Kazuko Kobayashi infuses traditions from Japanese calligraphy into abstract paintings to draw the viewer’s attention to the multifarious nature of the line, which can be soft and tender or powerful and overwhelming.
• Chia Hsuan Kuo creates tiny universes in ceramics that thoughtfully re-presents everyday encounters with people, their environments, and other objects.
• Ling Li is motivated first and foremost by the vivacity of nature in her hyperrealist paintings of animal life.
• Kat Masella searches for soul in her energetic abstractions that are spontaneously composed of mixed media, including casein, oil, beeswax, and marble dust.
• Saema Nabeel paints figures and still-lifes–harkening back to traditions of metaphysical realism–with great attention to detail.
• Zoe Panya pushes the limits of abstraction and painting by sculpting the paint across the canvas’s surface to create works that hang like three-dimensional, sculptural reliefs.
• Luis Romero creates artworks that celebrate the resilience of Caribbean people through the colors, costumes, and traditions of the Carnival festival.
• Kirsten Tingle straddles the figurative and the abstract in intimate figure studies and gestural compositions; using humor, abjection, and absurdity to address serious issues facing society, including climate change.
• Jorge Valenzuela finds complexity in the simplicity of spherical shapes—or a bouquet of flowers—in artworks that freely play with color and form.
• Deborah Walther aims to elicit strong emotional responses from viewers in rhythmic large-scale abstraction.‍
• See the artists' full bios.

‍

‍

‍

‍

GALLERY HOURS

Monday – Friday: 10 AM – 9 PM
Saturday: 10 AM – 4 PM
Sunday: Closed