Black Mountain Comes to Brooklyn! Symposia! with Kyle Staver and Michael David.

Please join Kyle Staver, Michael David, and guest critics Steven Harvey, Nino Mier, Jane South, and Barbara Takenaga in this freewheeling, yet rigorous Symposia! featuring open ended and spirited discussions and critiques of your work and your cohort’s work. This course will focus in part on the life of an artist - what it means to be an artist, maintain a practice, and the challenges faced, all while addressing the formal concerns of your work in order to challenge and deepen your practice.
 
Michael and Kyle will share their four decades of studio practice and personal experience in the art world.
 
In the first iteration of Kyle Staver and Michael David’s Symposia!, this approach, shared energy, and conversations created an environment that was profound, humorous, and exciting - one where everyone learned from one another, and their work deepened and progressed.
 
The meetings will take place over zoom. During seven months, the group will meet once or twice monthly with Kyle and Michael as well as guest critics.

GUEST CRITICS:

• Steven Harvey is an artist, curator, writer and founder of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York.

• Nino Mier is founder of Nino Mier Gallery in New York and Brussels. 

• Jane South is Chairperson of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. 

• Barbara Takenaga is an artist, Guggenhiem Fellow, and is Represented by DC Moore Gallery living and working in NYC.

We are so excited to share this opportunity and see what’s next.

Cost: $3,750, partial scholarships available

Instructor Bios:

Kyle Staver (Virginia, MN, lives and works in NYC) earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976 and her MFA from Yale University in 1987. In 2015, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize. She is a member of the National Academy of Design. She has had 2 solo exhibitions at Zürcher Gallery in New York (2018 and 2020) and in 2019, had a solo exhibition at Galerie RX (Paris) curated by Gwenolee Zürcher. In 2020, Zürcher Gallery participated in the Armory Show for the first time with a duo-presentation of Staver and Matt Bollinger in the Focus Section, curated by Jamillah James. Her most recent one person exhibitions include: Moskowitz Bayse, LA (2022), Half Gallery, NY (2022), Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels (2023) Kyle Staver and June Leaf at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project NY (2023). Her work is in the collections of the National Academy of Design (New York), The American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), The National Arts Club (New York) and The McEvoy Foundation (San Francisco).

Michael David: Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Yaddo and Edward Albee Fellow, Michael David has been exhibiting internationally since 1981, first with the historical Sidney Janis and then with M. Knoedler & Co. Exhibiting widely throughout the United States for 40 years, he has been the subject of much historical and curatorial acclaim. His most recent solo shows “The Mirror Stage” and "Night Time with Dreams and Mirror" were held at Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, GA. His work is included in many prominent private collections and the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Margulies Collection in Miami and the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk NY, and was the subject of a one-person exhibition at Aspen Museum of Art.  Considered an inheritor of Abstract Expressionism, David’s abstract work primarily centers on the use of a densely layered surface to facilitate a direct and immediate spiritual experience. He often incorporates religious iconography and symbolism, art historical themes such as the nude, and contemporary politics into his paintings resulting in a critical dialogue between the layered abstraction of the surface and the integrated representational imagery. Over the last decade, David established the Fine Arts Workshop in Atlanta and the Yellow Chair Salon, working with artists on an immersive one-on-one basis, helping to develop their voice and professional practices, finding exhibition opportunities and taking their individual expressions to the next level. His mentorship practice expanded to include residencies and workshops in Atlanta , Dallas, TX, Truro, MA and Brooklyn, NY. He has taught painting at Princeton, was head of the Graduate Painting Department at SCAD in Atlanta, and lectured and served as keynote speaker at many universities and art centers across the United States.  Over the last 12  years David has established, directed and curated two of the most successful galleries in Brooklyn: Life On Mars and M. David & Co.