NEW YORK, July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- XL Catlin is
pleased to announce that works from 40 student artists have been
selected for the inaugural XL Catlin Art Prize Traveling
Exhibition. Launched in December
2017, the XL Catlin Art Prize is devoted to figurative
artwork and is one of the premier student art competitions in
the United States.
The exhibition will go on a nationwide tour beginning at the
San Francisco Art Institute from
August 22 – October 7, with a public reception to be held on
Friday, August 31. It will then
travel to Chicago where it will be
on view at Linda Warren Projects from November 3 – 8. The tour finishes in New York City at the New York Academy of Art
with an exhibition on view from November
21 – 29. .
The Prize
The first prize and second prize winners will be announced at
the closing reception on Wednesday, November
28. The first prize is $10,000
and second prize is $3,500 and
winners will be chosen by renowned artists Nicole Eisenman, Eric Fischl, Amy
Sherald and XL Catlin's Senior Vice President for Fine
Art & Specie Insurance Jennifer
Schipf. The exhibition will be accompanied by an
illustrated catalogue.
In an innovative twist, the Prize also includes an Audience
Award, to be selected via Instagram (@XLCatlinArtPrize). Beginning
on August 12, individual works will
be posted to XL Catlin Art Prize's Instagram account every 48 hours
until all have been shown and the work with the most "likes" on the
platform will win $1,500. This will
be the first prestigious art prize conducted via the social media
platform of Instagram.
The Finalists
Over 700 submissions were received from 140 different schools,
both undergraduate and graduate programs. The 40 works in the
exhibition, which include paintings, drawings, prints, tapestries
and other media, were chosen by an Exhibition Jury comprised of
Ian Alteveer, Curator for
Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Jennie Goldstein, Assistant
Curator at the Whitney Museum, Laura
Hoptman, Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, and
Kara Vander Weg, Director at
Gagosian Gallery.
The shortlisted artists, 20 young men and 20 young women, are
enrolled at 24 different schools and range in age from 19 to 27.
The artists hail from 4 countries and 19 states. Six schools had
two artists make the cut: Hunter
College, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Rhode Island School of Design, San Francisco Art Institute, Savannah College of Art and Design, and the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Three shortlisted artists are from Yale
University, four from the Maryland
Institute College of Art, and five from the New York Academy
of Art.
The focus of the XL Catlin Art Prize reflects the reemergence of
figurative art in the contemporary art world and seeks to support
the next generation of American artists. Jennifer Schipf, Senior Vice President for
Fine Art & Specie Insurance at XL Catlin said, "Following ten
successful years of holding the competition in the UK, the Prize
gives us the perfect platform to highlight new artists and provides
a unique insight into emerging talent in the US."
About XL Catlin
XL Catlin is the global brand used
by XL Group Ltd's (NYSE:XL) insurance and reinsurance companies
which provide property, casualty, professional and specialty
products to industrial, commercial and professional firms,
insurance companies and other enterprises throughout the world.
Clients look to XL Catlin for answers to their most complex risks
and to help move their world forward. To learn more,
visit xlcatlin.com.
About The New York Academy of Art
Founded in 1982 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts,
including Andy Warhol, the New York
Academy of Art is a not-for-profit education and cultural
institution which combines intensive technical training in drawing,
painting and sculpture with active critical discourse. Academy
students are taught traditional methods and techniques and
encouraged to use these skills to make vital contemporary art.
Through major exhibitions, a lively speaker series, and an
ambitious educational program, the Academy serves as a creative and
intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled,
conceptually aware figurative and representational art.
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