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Student News, 2018-2019

Hearty congratulations to all of our Art History and Urban Design and Architecture Studies majors and students in our Historical and Sustainable Architecture Masters Program.  Kudos to you for your hard work and many achievements this academic year, and best wishes for a productive and restorative summer!  Especially hearty congratulations to all of our graduates.  We will miss you, and we hope that you will keep in touch with the department.  To supplement or correct the information presented here, please contact Professor Kathryn A. Smith (kathryn.smith@nyu.edu) with a copy to Peggy Coon (peggy@nyu.edu).

 Iracema Alvarez (B.A. Art History ’19) is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.

 Milly Ames (B.A. Art History ’20) is a co-recipient of the H. W. Janson Scholarship, presented each year to a junior major by the Department of Art History for excellence in the study of the history of art.  This summer she is working as a docent and preventative conservation intern for the National Trust at their Felbrigg Hall Estate in Felbrigg, England.

Talia Bush (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) will begin theM.A. program in Historical and Sustainable Architecture at New York University this fall.

Cheyne Campbell (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.  Cheyne will begin the MSc. program in Smart Cities and Urban Analytics, Bartlett Centre, at University College London this fall.

Danny Carpentier-Balough (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) was awarded a DURF grant this academic year and was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.  He gave a presentation at this year’s CAS Dean’s Undergraduate Research Conference.  This fall he will begin the MSc in Strategic Communications at the London School of Economics.

Rebekah Coffman (M.A. Historical and Sustainable Architecture ’19) received a Historic Wesley Center on Grant Street Scholarship and a Tuition Incentive Program Grant from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts & Science.

Emily Conklin (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’20) was awarded a DURF grant this academic year.  She received the Evelyn Jablow Lilienthal, ’64 Heights Arts and Science Award, presented each year to an especially accomplished junior in the Urban Design and Architecture Studies Program.

Tony Cui (B.A. Art History ’19) recently finished his senior honors thesis titled “Salvator Rosa’s Hybrid Skeletons,” advised by Professor Louise Rice.  As the Richard Frommer Scholar of Travels and Global Studies, Tony received funding from the College of Arts and Science for his research and presented parts of his thesis on several occasions, including at the Department of Italian Studies’ annual undergraduate research conference at Casa Italiana and the CAS Dean’s Undergraduate Research Conference, for which he received a “Best Panel Presentation” award.  Tony published an article, “Remarkable Foreigners, Kunlun Slaves in Early Tang Art”, in the 2018 issue of Ink & Image.  This year he served as Co-President for the Fine Arts Society, in which capacity he organized various events for students and moderated two symposia on career development. Right now, he is the personal assistant to Prof. Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt.  Tony was admitted to the PhD. program in art history and archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and will relocate to Washington D.C this summer.  Ready to graduate, Tony reports that, “as the Jenny Rhee Doctoral Fellow for the next five years, I am excited to pursue my interest in early modern European Art and honored to work with the marvelous faculty at UMD.”

Maria L. Free (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.  Maria is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Program for Urban Design and Architecture Studies.

Gabriel Haberberg (B.A. Art History ’20) is a co-recipient of the H. W. Janson Scholarship, awarded each year to a junior major by the Department of Art History for excellence in the study of the history of art.

José Hernández (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’19) writes, “This year, I had the privilege of serving as the President of the Urban Design and Architecture Society. I also completed my internship as a Projects and Education intern at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan.” José is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Program for Urban Design and Architecture Studies. He earned a scholarship to attend the Summer Studio in Classical Architecture at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) this summer. This fall he will begin the two-year M.S. program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania (PennDesign).

Lucia Iglesias (B.A. Art History ’22) was awarded a Raineri Grant in Ancient Studies to support her participation in a summer archaeological excavation in Peru. The Huari-Ancash Bio-Archaeological Research Project is run by Bebel Ibarra from Tulane University and Stephan Naji from NYU.  Lucia and her colleagues will be excavating pre-Inca mummies from around the area of Huari.

Ladan Jaballas (B.A. Urban Design and Architecure Studies ’19) was the Nicole and Joseph Meyer Research Scholar in the College of Arts & Science this year.  He also was awarded DURF grant this academic year and was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.

Laurent V. Joli-Coeur (B.A. Art History ’19) is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.

Joanna Knutsen (B.A. Art History ’19) is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.

Yi Dan Debbie Li (B.A. Art History / Anthropology ’19) is a co-recipient of the Douglas F. Maxwell Award, presented each year by the Department of Art History to a senior major for excellence in the study of art history.

Yuyin Charlotte Li (B.A. Art History ’19; Studio Art and Italian Studies minors) writes, “As a graduating senior, I have been making the most out of the 2018-2019 academic year. In November 2018 I published an article on my internship at the Conservation Department of the Palace Museum in the Beijing Suburbs Daily Newspaper.  The Chinese public was very interested in the conservators in the ‘Forbidden City,’ another name of the Palace Museum, due to a famous documentary on the department.  In December, I exhibited two paintings and one ceramic work at the USAO Show, organized by the Undergraduate Student Art Organization of NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Art and Art Professions at the Commons of the Barney Building.  I was elected to membership in the national honor society of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.  On April 12th I participated in the Italian Undergraduate Research Conference at Casa Italiana, where I presented my research paper on the five human senses in Titian’s mythological paintings.  I was named a University Honors Scholar, which is also called the Founders Day award.”

Feiran Lyu (B.A. Art History ’19) is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.

Alice Mcginty (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Program for Urban Design and Architecture Studies.

Caroline Westerberg Manera (B.A. Art History ’19) is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.

Philip Mathew (Matt) Marino (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) was awarded a DURF grant this academic year.  He is the recipient of the Ada Louise Huxtable Award, presented each year to a senior major by the Program for Urban Design and Architecture Studies.

Max Meyer (B.A. Art History ’21) was awarded the Fieldwork Fellowship from the Etruscan Foundation for his work this summer at the Gabii Project.

Madeline Pena (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) will begin the M.A. program in Urban Planning in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation this fall.

Kelly Ryser (B.A. Art History / Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19; Sustainable Urban Environments minor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering) was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.  She is a recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.  Her presentation on her honors thesis at this year’s CAS Dean’s Undergraduate Research Conference received a “Best in Panel” award.  Kelly was a member for four years of NYU’s Diving Team; this year was her second as the team’s captain.

Natalie Rizk (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) will begin the M.Arch. program at the Rhode Island School of Design this fall.

Alice Sebban (B.A. Art History ’19) is the recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.

Eduardo Sotomayor (BA. Art History ’19) is the recipient of the Eileen Guggenheim Award, presented each year to a senior major each by the Department of Art History for scholarly accomplishment in the fine arts.

Eden Tomich (B.A. Art History ’19) is the recipient of a Faculty Choice Award from the Department of Art History.

Kristina Tomulich (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’19) will begin the M.A. program in Historical and Sustainable Architecture at New York University this fall.

Joe Tuano (B.A. Urban Design and Architecture Studies ’21) was awarded a DURF grant this academic year.

Whitt A. Van Tassell (B.A. Art History ’19) is the recipient of the Jane Costello Memorial Award, presented each year by the Department of Art History to a senior major for excellence in the study of art history.

Sabina Vitale (B.A. Art History ’19) was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.  She gave a presentation based on her honors thesis at this year’s CAS Dean’s Undergraduate Research Conference.  She is a co-recipient of the Douglas F. Maxwell Award, presented each year by the Department of Art History to a senior major for excellence in the study of art history.

Xiaoli Joy Wu (B.A. Art History ’20) was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.

 

 

 

 

 

Alumni News, Spring 2019 – version 2.0!

More alumni responded to our call for news, so we are posting an expanded version of our recent post.  Congratulations to all of our alumni on your many and splendid achievements!  It is wonderful to hear from you; we hope to hear from more of you for our next Alumni News round-up, which we’ll post sometime in fall 2019.  Hearty thanks, too, to Professors Mosette Broderick, Carol Krinsky, Jon Ritter, and Kathryn Smith, who provided news about some of our distinguished alumni with whom they keep in touch.  Please send updates or corrections to Kathryn.smith@nyu.edu with a copy to peggy@nyu.edu.

Mira Schor (B.A. Fine Arts circa ’75) was the recipient of a 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art.  The award recognizes her work as feminist painter, art historian, teacher, critic, and editor.  More here  about Mira’s work and career.

Julia Perratore (B.A., Art History ’03; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania ’12) begins her new position as Assistant Curator in the Department of Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June 2019.  Previously Julia was a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum, where she cataloged and researched the sculpture collection of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters.  Her doctoral dissertation, “Laity, Community and Architectural Sculpture in Romanesque Aragon: Santa María de Uncastillo,” written under the supervision of Robert Maxwell, explored the role of the visual arts in post-conquest northern Spain.  Grants or fellowships from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, and the Fulbright Commission supported her dissertation work.  Julia’s articles and reviews have appeared in Mediterráneos, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Peregrinations, Caareviews, and in a volume of essays that she co-edited, Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and Its Afterlives (2018).  In her new position Julia will be based at The Cloisters.

Larisa Grollemond (B.A., Art History ’07; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania ’16) is the Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.  In May, she will celebrate the opening of the major international loan exhibition, Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, which she co-curated with Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts.  Larisa was also a contributor to and assisting editor of the accompanying publication of the same name (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019).  She is currently working on an upcoming exhibition at the Getty entitled Blurring the Line: Manuscripts in the Age of Print that opens in August 2019.

Sarah Rogers Morris (B.A. Art History, ’08) earned an M.A. from the Bard Graduate Center in 2013 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Art History Department at University of Illinois at Chicago.  She studies modern architecture and design with a special focus on architectural photography and the social and cultural history of Chicago’s built environment.  Her research on Hedrich Blessing, a commercial photography studio, considers photography’s role in constructing and promoting ideas about Chicago as a center of architectural innovation in the twentieth century.

Ksenia Nouril (née Yachmetz) (B.A. Art History ’09) successfully defended her dissertation entitled “The Afterlives of Communism: The Historical Turn in Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe” and received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in October 2018.  Ksenia sends this additional excellent news:  “In January 2019, I was appointed Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center, a 104-year-old nonprofit institution in Philadelphia dedicated to expanding our understanding of printmaking and photography as vital contemporary arts.”  On April 18th, Ksenia opened two exhibitions:  James Siena: Resonance Under Pressure and New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print.  In March 2019 Ksenia’s husband, Bruno Nouril (B.A. NYU Religious Studies ’08), began as Director of Development at ICA Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Alexis Wang (B.A. Art History ’09), currently a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology, was awarded a 2019-20 Rome Prize to support advanced research on her dissertation, titled “Intermedial Effects, Sanctified Surfaces: Framing Devotional Objects in Italian Medieval Mural Decoration.”  She is pursuing her thesis under the supervision of Columbia’s Holger Klein.

Areyeh “Ari” Lipkis (B.A. Art History ’11), a past Co-President of the Fine Arts Society, sends this news:  “After completing an M.A. at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2016, specializing in sixteenth-century Italian art, I am very pleased to be starting this fall in the Ph.D. program at Temple University in Philadelphia, where I’ll study with Dr. Tracy Cooper.  I will be focusing more on the architecture of Northern Italy, especially on Lombardy and the Veneto.  I would not have been able to reach this accomplishment without the initial support I received from the department, and in particular from Drs. Carol Krinsky and Elizabeth Mansfield (now at Penn State).”

Christina Smith (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’11) is a member of City Council in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she is also Executive Director of Groundwork Bridgeport, a community-based preservation and advocacy organization. She is also Trustee of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, and in 2018 she was named a Professional Development Fellow at the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office. She is working on a project with the Fairfield Garden Club to restore the Olmsted and Vaux design for a lookout section in Bridgeport’s Seaside Park.

Cecil Barnes (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’10; M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’12) is Architectural Designer at Chartier Dalix in Paris, France.  He was formerly Architectural Designer at Bernard Tschumi in New York City.  He earned his M.Arch from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in 2015.

Heather Shimmin (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’12)
works as Photo Review Coordinator at Shutterstock in New York City and she leads tours for Untapped Cities.
Chad Rochkind (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’12) is founder of Human Scale Studio, and he is currently working as Strategist at SY Partners in Brooklyn.  In 2017 he was named to the YBCA100 list, which recognizes Chad’s present efforts and its potential for future impact.  In 2018 he produced a documentary about some of his work in Detroit that was selected to the Free Press Film Festival.  He also published an article in CityLab based on interviews with mayors, thought leaders, and practitioners about the future of cities:  “My main takeaway:  cities are society condensed in space, so the issues that impact cities are often things that occur outside their borders.  Immigration policy, population growth, and environmental regulation all impact the shape and form of cities in ways that are difficult to imagine when we craft those policies. To me, this means that policymakers should approach their work with a degree of humility, open-mindedness and agility.”

Kaylee Alexander (B.A., Art History ’13; M.A., Institute of Fine Arts ’15) is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, where she is preparing a dissertation on the visual culture of the cemetery and the market for funerary monuments in nineteenth-century Paris under the supervision of Neil McWilliam.  At Duke she is also a research assistant for the Duke Art, Law & Markets Initiative (DALMI), as well as a fellow in the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, and a digital humanities intern with Data and Visualization Services at Duke University Libraries.  In 2018 Kaylee was awarded the Graduate Student Distinguished Presentation Award at the 45th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society for her paper, “Père-Lachaise in 1815: A New Method in the Study of Ephemeral Funerary Monuments.”  The paper was subsequently published in the e-publication, Monumental Troubles: Rethinking What Monuments Mean Today (eds. Erika Doss and Cheryl Snay, 2018).

Most recently Kaylee has presented her research on funerary monuments industry in New York at the 16^th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.  This July, she will present her work on the legacy of French burial regulations on the material culture of the cemetery at the 2019 Society for the Study of French History conference at the University of Leeds.  For the 2019-20 academic year Kaylee has received the James B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship, awarded by the Graduate School at Duke University.  During the fellowship period she will be based in Paris writing and completing archival research for her dissertation project.  More information about her research can be found on her website.

Ariane Prache (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’13) is Architectural Designer at Bleyer, Blinder, Belle in New York City.  She earned dual M.Arch and MS in Historic Preservation and Conservation degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in 2019.

Michael Storm (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’13) is Urban Designer at AECOM in New York City, where he coordinates emergency home repair in the Virgin Islands as Assistant Head of Project Closeout for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) STEP Program.  Michael earned his M.Arch degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in 2018.

Alessandro Bello, B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’14; M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’15) is working as an Assistant Architect for AKI Development in Astoria NY, best known for Graffiti House, which has won Interior Design and Landscaping awards from the Queens Chamber of Commerce.  He was formerly a Heritage Planning Consultant at Savills in London for several years.

Danny Matalon (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’14) will begin NYU’s M.A. program in Historical and Sustainable Architecture this fall.

Alex Greenberger (B.A. Art History ’15) is a Senior Editor at ARTnews, a position he has held for about a year.  Previously he was an Associate Editor, an Editorial Assistant, and an Editorial Intern at the journal.

Jesslyn Guntur (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’15) is Communications Manager at BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group in New York City.

Liz Meshel (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’15) will begin the MSt. program in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford this fall.

Danielle Nir (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’15) will begin the M.Arch. program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation this fall.

Raka Sen (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’15) is a second-year doctoral student in the Sociology program at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her research interests include the sociology of climate change, social resilience, cities, neighborhoods and disaster sociology.  Prior to beginning her graduate study, Raka was a Researcher at Rebuild By Design, a resilience initiative launched after Hurricane Sandy.  At Rebuild she worked on a study of managed retreat in the Sandy region and studied how long term infrastructure projects develop over time.

Monica Bacon (M.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’16) is a Historic Buildings Specialist for the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, assigned to the U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii in their Cultural Resources section, Environmental Division.   She assists with the identification, evaluation of potential eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, and the preservation & adaptive re-use of historic buildings for the U.S. Army in Hawaii.  Monica serves on the non-profit Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa’s Memorial Design team, and volunteers her time working on an architectural inventory survey of historic patient homes at Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai.  Monica’s landscape architecture themed capstone thesis was the inspiration behind her recently published article in The London Gardener, the journal of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust (2018, Volume 22), entitled “Thomas Square, Honolulu: a ‘London Square’ in the Hawaiian Islands.”

Grace Braganza (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’16) is currently living in Princeton, New Jersey, where she works for KSS Architects in Princeton and Philadelphia as a Marketing Coordinator, which includes writing and research about projects, assisting with RFPs, on-site project photo shoots, and graphic design. KSS is a wide service firm with a specialty in adaptive reuse projects.  Her experience with project in London informs her approach to many similar projects on her work with KSS.

Corinne Hargraves (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’16) is Assistant Project Manager at Neuberger Berman in New York City.

Julia Katz (B.A. Art History ’16) is pursuing an M.A. at the University of Delaware, where her research interests include Italian Baroque art and architecture, and the relationship between ancient and early modern art, literature, and culture.  This fall she will enter the Ph.D. program in Art History ​at Rutgers.

Bryan Marcus Chun Law (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’16) will begin the M.Arch. program at the University of California, Berkeley this fall.

Reshma Persaud (B.A. Art History ’16) writes, “I am in my second year of the M.A. in Visual Arts Administration program at NYU Steinhardt.  This summer, I am looking forward to completing Steinhardt’s Global Summer Abroad course, UK: Exhibition and Display of Art and Material Culture, through which I will explore the museums, galleries, and heritage sites of London. Earlier this month I was the recipient of the VAA Alumni Council Study Abroad Award of $1,000 to assist with expenses related to my trip.

I recently accepted an internship at Grey Art Gallery, where I helped launch the Grey’s first ever crowdfunding campaign to support our landmark exhibition Art After Stonewall 1969-1989.  Revisiting my roots in the Department of Art History, I am also excited to share that I worked on an interview for The Grey Area’s blog with none other than our very own Professor Dennis Geronimus in conjunction with Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt, on view at the Grey from January 9 – April 6, 2019.  In my leisure time, I am a volunteer educator at the Chaim and Renee Gross Foundation, where I offer tours of the museum’s rich collection, right in the heart of Greenwich Village.”

Recently I began a part-time position as Project Associate for the Associate of Professional Art Advisors (APAA) where I work on their weekly digests, social media posts, newsletters and events.

Robin Smith (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’16) is Project Manager at Construction for Change in Uganda. He was formerly Assistant Project Manager at AE Greyson in New York City before moving to Africa this year.

Anqi Xu (B.A. Art History ’16) is the Chief Editor of Art in Group at Huasheng Media responsible for the China Editions of Wallpaper* and the New York Times T Magazine, in addition to serving as a founding member of The WSJ. China Magazine to be launched this summer.  She gave a talk at Fosun Foundation Shanghai on its exhibition Yayoi Kusama: All About Love Speaks Forever in March 2019.  She is also invited to be a panelist to share her views on art and technology at the 8th annual Columbia China Prospects Conference (Columbia University) this April.

Daniel Borrero (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’17) will begin the M.F.A. program in Architectural History at Savannah College of Design this fall.

Ryan Cameron (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’17) works as a Junior Associate at MacRostie Historic Advisors in Boston, where he researches and writes National Register nominations all over the country.  He writes that he “gets to nerd out looking at buildings all over the country, I love it.  I can’t say I know anyone else my age who can genuinely say they enjoy going to work most days so I am pretty stoked.”

Polyn Gonzalez (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’17) works in the Chilean Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Heritage, focusing on sustainable conservation of historic architecture.  She also teaches architectural preservation and adaptive reuse at the University of Viña del Mar. I n 2018, Polyn was one of nine people selected for the US – ICOMOS International Exchange Program.  In the summer of 2018 she worked with the Preservation Institute of Nantucket and the University of Florida to carry out a Historic Houses Inventory and documentation project in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Brianna Kuperavage (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’17)
is working as an architectural designer at Ralph C Fey Architects in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  The firm works with a variety of commercial and residential projects.  Some projects deal with historic properties and reuse schemes.

Molly Rockhold (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’17) is Project Coordinator at iX Construction in Long Island City.  She has worked with the quality control team and project managers to develop projects and to coordinate mechanical contracting through all stages, and she has overseen international renovation projects for both low-income families and high-end residences and coordinated the principal phases of a 51-story hotel project in Times Square.

Jasber Singh (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’17) is Director of Operations at the New York-based design/build firm MADE, which has an expansive portfolio of restoration and gut renovation projects in historic West Village and Brooklyn townhouses.  Jasber works on Landmark Preservation Commission applications for many of these projects, and in 2018 she lectured to Parsons School students about the design process of her work at MADE.  Jasber is also working on interactive Google map of NYC’s midtown modern buildings for the DOCOMOMO NY/Tri-State Midtown Modern Project.

Selina Cheah (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’18) will begin the M.L.A. PennDesign program at the University of Pennsylvania this fall.

Julia Drayson (B.A. Art History ’18) writes:  “I started a full time job in January at The Willem de Kooning Foundation as Assistant to the Executive Director, after interning there for several months.  Currently I am assisting with the gathering and processing of various archival and research materials while also assisting with educational, exhibition and loan initiatives.  I enjoy my work very much and get to develop my research skills and understanding of the larger art world while deepening my knowledge of Willem de Kooning and his incredible body of work!”

Luming Guan (B.A. Art History ’18) will begin the M.A. program in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University this fall.

Baylee McKeel (B.A. Art History ’18) sends this news:  “I recently accepted a full time position as a researcher and gallery assistant at Galerie Gmurzynska and have received a deferred acceptance to the Courtauld Institute of Art for an MA in the History of Art in 2020.”  Baylee’s research interests lie in the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Italy and Spain. She is also interested in the dissemination of artistic and cultural influence and the societal consequences of these influences.

Madelaine Momot (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’18) was the recipient of the Gavin Stamp Memorial Award from the Program for Historical and Sustainable Architecture for her M.A. thesis.

Mia Shlovsky (B.A. Art History ’18) will begin the Courtauld Institute’s History of Art M.A. this fall.  She will be studying as part of the “New York-London-Paris 1860-1940” option with Professor David Peters Corbett.

Peiyuan Sun (B.A. Art History ’18) will begin the M.A. program in Conservation and Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts this fall.

Marcelo Yañez (B.A. Art History ’18) has been living since graduation in Berlin, where he is working as an archivist for the artist AA Bronson, helping Bronson to organize his papers and photographs in preparation for a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada on the work of General Idea.  Marcelo writes, “In the fall I’m moving to California to begin PhD coursework at Stanford University in the Department of Art and Art History.  I’ll be studying American art with Richard Meyer and Marci Kwon.”

Jiayu Zhu (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’18) will begin the double M.A. Programs in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley this fall.

 

 

 

 

Career Development Symposium!

Panelists:

Leila Amineddoleh – Founder and Managing Partner, Amineddoleh & Associates, LLP
Marcela Guerrero – Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Asher Miller – Associate Curator of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ally Mintz – Exhibitions and Publications Manager, NYU Grey Art Gallery
Ellen Prokop – Associate Head of Research and Member of the “Digital Art History Lab,” The Frick Art Reference Library
Sharon Vatsky – Director of Education, School, and Family Programs, Guggenheim Museum New York

Alumni News, Spring 2019

 

Greatest thanks to all of the alumni who responded to our call for news, and congratulations to all of you on your many and splendid achievements!  It is wonderful to hear from you; we hope to hear from more of you for our next Alumni News round-up, which we’ll post sometime in Fall 2019.  Hearty thanks, too, to Professors Carol Krinsky, Jon Ritter, and Kathryn Smith who provided news about some of our distinguished alumni with whom they keep in touch.  Please send updates or corrections to Kathryn.smith@nyu.edu with a copy to peggy@nyu.edu.

Mira Schor (B.A. Fine Arts circa ’75) was the recipient of a 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art.  The award recognizes her work as feminist painter, art historian, teacher, critic, and editor.  More here about Mira’s work and career.

Julia Perratore (B.A., Art History ’03; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania ’12) begins her new position as Assistant Curator in the Department of Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June 2019.  Previously Julia was a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum, where she cataloged and researched the sculpture collection of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters.  Her doctoral dissertation, “Laity, Community and Architectural Sculpture in Romanesque Aragon: Santa María de Uncastillo,” written under the supervision of Robert Maxwell, explored the role of the visual arts in post-conquest northern Spain.  Grants or fellowships from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, and the Fulbright Commission supported her dissertation work.  Julia’s articles and reviews have appeared in Mediterráneos, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Peregrinations, Caareviews, and in a volume of essays that she co-edited, Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and Its Afterlives (2018).  In her new position Julia will be based at The Cloisters.

Larisa Grollemond (B.A., Art History ’07; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania ’16) is the Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.  In May, she will celebrate the opening of the major international loan exhibition, Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, which she co-curated with Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts.  Larisa was also a contributor to and assisting editor of the accompanying publication of the same name (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019).  She is currently working on an upcoming exhibition at the Getty entitled Blurring the Line: Manuscripts in the Age of Print that opens in August 2019.

Sarah Rogers Morris (B.A. Art History, ’08) earned an M.A. from the Bard Graduate Center in 2013 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Art History Department at University of Illinois at Chicago.  She studies modern architecture and design with a special focus on architectural photography and the social and cultural history of Chicago’s built environment.  Her research on Hedrich Blessing, a commercial photography studio, considers photography’s role in constructing and promoting ideas about Chicago as a center of architectural innovation in the twentieth century.

Ksenia Nouril (née Yachmetz) (B.A. Art History ’09) successfully defended her dissertation entitled “The Afterlives of Communism: The Historical Turn in Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe” and received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in October 2018.  Ksenia sends this additional excellent news:  “In January 2019, I was appointed Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center, a 104-year-old nonprofit institution in Philadelphia dedicated to expanding our understanding of printmaking and photography as vital contemporary arts.”  On April 18th, Ksenia opened two exhibitions:  James Siena: Resonance Under Pressure and New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print.  In March 2019 Ksenia’s husband, Bruno Nouril (B.A. NYU Religious Studies ’08), began as Director of Development at ICA Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ksenia Nouril, Photo by Matt Rencher

Alexis Wang (B.A. Art History ’09), currently a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology, was awarded a 2019-20 Rome Prize to support advanced research on her dissertation, titled “Intermedial Effects, Sanctified Surfaces: Framing Devotional Objects in Italian Medieval Mural Decoration.”  She is pursuing her thesis under the supervision of Columbia’s Holger Klein.

Areyeh “Ari” Lipkis (B.A. Art History ’11), a past Co-President of the Fine Arts Society, sends this news:  “After completing an M.A. at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2016, specializing in sixteenth-century Italian art, I am very pleased to be starting this fall in the Ph.D. program at Temple University in Philadelphia, where I’ll study with Dr. Tracy Cooper.  I will be focusing more on the architecture of Northern Italy, especially on Lombardy and the Veneto.  I would not have been able to reach this accomplishment without the initial support I received from the department, and in particular from Drs. Carol Krinsky and Elizabeth Mansfield (now at Penn State).”

Kaylee Alexander (B.A., Art History ’13; M.A., Institute of Fine Arts ’15) is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, where she is preparing a dissertation on the visual culture of the cemetery and the market for funerary monuments in nineteenth-century Paris under the supervision of Neil McWilliam.  At Duke she is also a research assistant for the Duke Art, Law & Markets Initiative (DALMI), as well as a fellow in the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, and a digital humanities intern with Data and Visualization Services at Duke University Libraries.  In 2018 Kaylee was awarded the Graduate Student Distinguished Presentation Award at the 45th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society for her paper, “Père-Lachaise in 1815: A New Method in the Study of Ephemeral Funerary Monuments.”  The paper was subsequently published in the e-publication, Monumental Troubles: Rethinking What Monuments Mean Today (eds. Erika Doss and Cheryl Snay, 2018).

Most recently Kaylee has presented her research on funerary monuments industry in New York at the 16^th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.  This July, she will present her work on the legacy of French burial regulations on the material culture of the cemetery at the 2019 Society for the Study of French History conference at the University of Leeds.  For the 2019-20 academic year Kaylee has received the James B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship, awarded by the Graduate School at Duke University.  During the fellowship period she will be based in Paris writing and completing archival research for her dissertation project.  More information about her research can be found on her website.

Danny Matalon (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’14) will begin NYU’s M.A. program in Historical and Sustainable Architecture this fall.

Alex Greenberger (B.A. Art History ’15) is a Senior Editor at ARTnews, a position he has held for about a year.  Previously he was an Associate Editor, an Editorial Assistant, and an Editorial Intern at the journal.

Liz Meshel (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’15) will begin the MSt. program in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford this fall.

Danielle Nir (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’15) will begin the M.Arch. program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation this fall.

Julia Katz (B.A. Art History ’16) is pursuing an M.A. at the University of Delaware, where her research interests include Italian Baroque art and architecture, and the relationship between ancient and early modern art, literature, and culture.  This fall she will enter the Ph.D. program in Art History ​at Rutgers.

Bryan Marcus Chun Law (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’16) will begin the M.Arch. program at the University of California, Berkeley this fall.

Reshma Persaud (B.A. Art History ’16) writes, “I am in my second year of the M.A. in Visual Arts Administration program at NYU Steinhardt. This summer, I am looking forward to completing Steinhardt’s Global Summer Abroad course, UK: Exhibition and Display of Art and Material Culture, through which I will explore the museums, galleries, and heritage sites of London.  I recently accepted an internship at Grey Art Gallery, where I helped launch the Grey’s first ever crowdfunding campaign to support our landmark exhibition Art After Stonewall 1969-1989.  Revisiting my roots in the Department of Art History, I am also excited to share that I worked on an interview for The Grey Area’s blog with none other than our very own Professor Dennis Geronimus in conjunction with Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt, on view at the Grey from January 9 – April 6, 2019.  In my leisure time, I am a volunteer educator at the Chaim and Renee Gross Foundation, where I offer tours of the museum’s rich collection, right in the heart of Greenwich Village.”

Anqi Xu (B.A. Art History ’16) is the Chief Editor of Art in Group at Huasheng Media responsible for the China Editions of Wallpaper* and the New York Times T Magazine, in addition to serving as a founding member of The WSJ. China Magazine to be launched this summer.  She gave a talk at Fosun Foundation Shanghai on its exhibition Yayoi Kusama: All About Love Speaks Forever in March 2019.  She is also invited to be a panelist to share her views on art and technology at the 8th annual Columbia China Prospects Conference (Columbia University) this April.

Daniel Borrero (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’17) will begin the M.F.A. program in Architectural History at Savannah College of Design this fall.

Selina Cheah (B.A. Urban Design & Architecture Studies ’18) will begin the M.L.A. PennDesign program at the University of Pennsylvania this fall.

Julia Drayson (B.A. Art History ’18) writes:  “I started a full time job in January at The Willem de Kooning Foundation as Assistant to the Executive Director, after interning there for several months.  Currently I am assisting with the gathering and processing of various archival and research materials while also assisting with educational, exhibition and loan initiatives.  I enjoy my work very much and get to develop my research skills and understanding of the larger art world while deepening my knowledge of Willem de Kooning and his incredible body of work!”

Luming Guan (B.A. Art History ’18) will begin the M.A. program in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University this fall.

Baylee McKeel (B.A. Art History ’18) sends this news:  “I recently accepted a full time position as a researcher and gallery assistant at Galerie Gmurzynska and have received a deferred acceptance to the Courtauld Institute of Art for an MA in the History of Art in 2020.”  Baylee’s research interests lie in the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Italy and Spain. She is also interested in the dissemination of artistic and cultural influence and the societal consequences of these influences.

Madelaine Momot (M.A. Historical & Sustainable Architecture ’18) was the recipient of the Gavin Stamp Memorial Award from the Program for Historical and Sustainable Architecture for her M.A. thesis.

Mia Shlovsky (B.A. Art History ’18) will begin the Courtauld Institute’s History of Art M.A. this fall.  She will be studying as part of the “New York-London-Paris 1860-1940” option with Professor David Peters Corbett.

Peiyuan Sun (B.A. Art History ’18) will begin the M.A. program in Conservation and Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts this fall.

Marcelo Yañez (B.A. Art History ’18) has been living since graduation in Berlin, where he is working as an archivist for the artist AA Bronson, helping Bronson to organize his papers and photographs in preparation for a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada on the work of General Idea.  Marcelo writes, “In the fall I’m moving to California to begin PhD coursework at Stanford University in the Department of Art and Art History.  I’ll be studying American art with Richard Meyer and Marci Kwon.”