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Goldsmith really likes academic painting which is conceptual and Currin is much better liked over in Europe than here atm. Currin lost a lot of favored points during the #Metoo era and a lot of contemporary art folks in the US frown even more if a female artist dug Currin ;o.

Academic painting does not refer to whether you were self-taught or not actually. It is a reference to your approach of visual ontology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_art If you are doing very realistic art which NYAA likes, then typically Yale does not want that. And yes, Currin is very much in that vein. Also Currin isn't favored much by the Yale cohorts as he is being seen as white privileged, old fashioned, very male oriented and just mostly sexist today.

Sweet, I just sent you a message via your website as well woot

Quite kick ass indeed I think that I will PM you off-site about your art :). (Meanwhile check out https://www.baseerakhanstudios.com/ who is a very brilliant Muslim artist.)

Thanks :)... do you have a website which I can check out?

All of my art can be found here at https://albertabdulbarrwang.art/ (doesn't have everything yet).

That's impressive. A lot of my art has pretty obscure references to Islamic (Nation of Islam/5%) rap references/songs, mainstream Sunni concepts, and postmodern Sufism... especially in my latest sculptures and installations. Cool I am glad to meet another Muslim here

Since Yale acceptances are out, I will be celebrating by kicking off some music off the last rap album I heard while I was at Yale back in 1999-2001 for public health. The dayz of waywayback.

yes a recent convert to the faith.

Yes... one of the reasons for Yale being such as a mover and shaker is that people from all walks of life enter into the program. That is a huge bonus for me when I apply next fall. Living here in Utah is completely torture culturally for me. It's just a bunch of mostly white pro-Trump folks here. Very inspirational for my cynical political art but I cannot sustain that forever. I plan to keep my house here but I will have to get a second studio/apartment in either NYC/LA. As a conceptual artist, I have no future in Utah unless some miracle is wrought. Yale and UCLA offer relatively radical programs that fits in with my neo-Marxist, pretty left-wing Muslim/Sufist belief systems.

Yale is pretty conceptually driven and less about the perfection of craftsmanship... also their painting/printmaking dept wants to emphasize intersectionality so they like to keep a racially/culturally/sexual diverse group. Perfect drawings rendered in the academic style is going to be a huge no for that program.

Also Yale doesn't "allow" more than 3 times to apply there.

I think so but sadly enough, our gallery had a falling out with her studio to be honest. She is very talented however. It is very experimental but I think her work is on the spectrum is being much more traditional than the other students she is with.

NoraEllie, I was wondering whether you heard back from any of the places you applied to yet?

It's not a bad program if you are into many disciplines with your art practice. I knew of one painter there right now at VCU but her work falls into more traditional fare.

Grats and do you have a website that we could see your wonderful work at? Thanks

Grats. Would love to see your work if you have a website. Which program did you get in?

As a side note, my friends' and my curatorial space just got its listing in the online ArtForum woot! https://www.artforum.com/artguide/office-space-20887

How did it go today with the prediction?

And now we will pause for a commercial break with some lovely music:

Perhaps not. Figurative painting is back into style and it's the hottest contemporary art trend during the BLM era.

Eh, I heard through the grapevine that Columbia and Yale are polar opposites. Maybe they give like 1-2 scholarships but Columbia does not seem to give that much out.

Yes, Utah has very talented artists but sadly enough our gallery system in SLC area doesn't support such innovative works :(... We got a huge art brain drain here :\.

Nice, Jared Lindsay Clark is from our parts atm (northern UT) and he is a former VCU grad.

How is ada gallery over there in Richmond btw?