Art Walk: NYC Gallery and Exhibitions Class

Want to hit New York's art scene with local artists? The Art Students League will offer single drop-in options for their in April and May. This weekly class explores artwork currently on view in NYC galleries in Chelsea, Tribeca, and other areas in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and can include art openings and gallery talks from artists or gallerists.

Participants will be emailed the location and itinerary on the Tuesday or Wednesday before each session.

Hugo Xavier Bastidas is an American artist. He received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and his MFA from Hunter College. His awards include a Robert Smithson Scholarship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pollack-Krasner Grant and a NJEA Grant. He is represented by the Nohra Haime Gallery, where he has had 16 solo shows. Other solos exhibits include those at the Gyeongnam Museum of Art, Gallery KunstDoc, and Bonn Gallery. His digital artwork was represented by Gallery Boreas (Lenox, MA and Reykjavik, Iceland) and had been included in the DiVA shows (in Paris, Cologne and NY) and the AAF (NY). He is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Design and is represented in their collection among other collections public and private nationally and internationally. He represented the US in the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador, 1999) and the Sharjah Biennial (UAE, 2001). His work is in collections worldwide.

Artist Website: www.hugobastidas.com

Elizabeth Demaray is an artist whose research area is the interface between the built environment and the natural world. An internationally recognized leader in the field of eco-robotics and non-anthropocentric design, she programs listening stations for birds that play human music, cultures lichen on the sides of skyscrapers in New York City and manufactures alternative forms of housing for hermit crabs, out of man-made materials. Her current work, IndaPlant Project: An Act of Trans-Species Giving, entails building light-sensing robotic supports for houseplants. These moving floraborgs allow potted-plants to roam freely in a domestic environment, in search of sunlight and water. Demaray is the recipient of the National Studio Award at the New York Museum of Modern Art/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, the Artist Residency Award at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Art Omi Residency and the Welcome to the Anthropocene Award from the Association of Environmental Science Studies. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, HYPERALLERGIC, Art News, ARTPULSE, The Daily Mail UK, Libération FR, Sina Technology China, L’Est-Éclair FR and Technical.lyBrooklyn. Currently an Associate Professor of Fine Arts and head of the intermedia concentration at Rutgers University, Camden, Demaray is also an advisor in the Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers New Brunswick, which is a platform for the use of computer vision and machine learning in art. Demaray lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist Website: www.elizabethdemaray.org

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