Tribeca, New York
Group Exhibition
2023 Chubb Fellows Exhibition
New York Academy of ArtZachary Lank Antoinette Legnini Audrey Rodriguez The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present the 2023 Chubb Fellows Exhibition. The highest honor the New York Academy of Art bestows on its students, this year’s Chubb Fellowship marks the program’s 15th year combining intensive studio work, in-depth personal study, and peer-to-peer mentorship, so that Chubb Fellows can both grow as artists and foster growth in the community of artists around them. Chubb fellows also receive studio accommodations, exhibition opportunities, and a stipend. In December 2023, the Chubb Fellows will also exhibit their work at Chubb’s Lounge in the Art Basel Miami Beach Collector’s Lounge. Of this year’s fellows, Audrey Rodriguez and Antoinette Legnini were selected for the Fellowship upon graduation in 2022, while Zachary Lank (MFA 2018) joined the fellowship via a recent initiative that opened candidacy to all Academy alumni. Each has enjoyed a strong entry into the world of gallery shows; Lank was recently featured at art central in Hong Kong through Gallery Ascend. Rodriguez had a solo show at McLennon Penn Co. Gallery in Houston and was the 1st Prize Winner of the AXA Art Prize. Legnini had a solo show titled “Bronx Faces” at the Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education and was recently featured in the group show “Order/Reorder” at the Hudson River Museum. This year’s show boasts variety and experimentation in dialogue with traditional elements. Lank’s paintings bend the iconography of the American west into a tangle of shape and color that prods, jokes, and withers in one breath. Rodriguez, across both painting and sculpture, writes color into quiet and vice versa, highlighting incidence and vitality on and below the city street. Whether working in painting, sculpture, or mixed-media installation, Legnini presses her images from a world as simple as it is fantastic, finding texture and individualism in the disposable.