Winning Post 7 2013 Nyaa Torrent
Katja Gains
After graduating with a BFA from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, in 1998, Brickey spent over a decade independently studying -- from the East Coast to the West Coast and also furthering his development as an artist while living in Europe and Scandinavia. Having been an award-winning figurative painter for many years, he decided to pursue a study of sculpture and moved his family to New York, NY.
Each year, the Academy selects three outstanding graduates to serve as postgraduate fellows. The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is the title sponsor of the program. The Chubb post graduate fellowship is the highest honor the Academy can bestow on its graduates. Under the program, the fellows have the opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of their artistic prowess while serving as teaching assistants and mentors to a new crop of talented figurative artists. Chubb fellows also receive studio accommodations, exhibition opportunities and a stipend. Fellowship Responsibilities
Erin Pollock (b. 1982, Alaska) is an American painter, photographer and animator. She is a graduate of Whitman College and did postgraduate art studies at Gage Academy in Seattle and Studio Art Centers International in Florence before receiving an MFA at the New York Academy of Art. At the Academy, she was awarded the Will Cotton Grant and the Beijing Summer Residency in Beijing, China. She has staged numerous public art projects, including commissions for the City of Seattle, the City of Anchorage, Seattle Public Transit system, Seattle Art Museum, Ford Motor Company and Microsoft. She has exhibited in group shows in New York, Florence and Beijing and had solo exhibitions in Seattle and Anchorage, and is a recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Robert Maxwell Foundation Fellowship.
Born and raised in Taiwan, Shangkai Kevin Yu moved to New York for his BFA at Parsons The New School For Design. He continued his studies at the New York Academy of Art, where he received an MFA degree and was awarded the post-graduate fellowship and a residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme. Finding the strange narratives that exist among objects and figures from day to day life and in art history, Kevin utilizes different painting techniques that possess inherent meanings to record and create these narratives on canvas.
Working in mixed media, Glaessner creates an uncanny, post-apocalyptic world born from the delicate balance between spontaneity and intention. Elements from the trajectory of history painting are re-contextualized in a contemporary, female vernacular and these evocative landscapes set the stage for highly personal, mysterious narratives to unfold.
The five decide that the best way to make Nyaa reject Osomatsu is to set them up on a mixer. Osomatsu is late because he's winning at pachinko, and he also does not brush his hair. During the mixer, he not only commits gross acts against his brothers, he also tries to hug both Totoko and Nyaa out of no reason (only to be stopped by Totoko and his brothers' usage of violence). Eventually, he realizes that he doesn't know Nyaa, and proceeds to ask who she is. All these acts only serve to enhance Nyaa's attraction to him.