19th Annule High School Exhibitiom opens March 7th at the Art League of Long Island

Go APE! High School Student Exhibition Opens at the Art League of Long Island March 7th 

For the 19th year in a row the Art League of Long Island is pleased to offer the opportunity for High School Advanced Placement or equivalent art students throughout Suffolk and Nassau counties to exhibit their work in an AP Art exhibition entitled, “GO APE”.  This exhibit celebrates the exceptional artwork, as selected by their teachers, of AP, IB or equivalent art students in Long Island’s High Schools. Each school may submit up to 3 works to be apportioned as the teachers see fit among in what we hope is a wide cross section of media:  Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Photography, and Computer Graphics. This exhibition will feature talented art students working across Long Island and will give the students the opportunity to view artwork created by their peers in a professional gallery setting. 

In that AP students are aiming at careers in the fine arts, presentation appropriate to a professional gallery setting should be stressed. To encourage more attention to appropriate framing, we will be giving a special award for “Best Presentation.” 

Awards will be given at the reception scheduled for Saturday, March 21st, from 1pm – 2pm, and will honor outstanding work created in each two and three-dimensional content area. 

About the Juror: Michelle Palatnik is a New York-based figurative painter whose work explores emotional architecture, interiority, and the tension between presence and absence. Her paintings aim to render psychological states with formal clarity and atmospheric restraint. 

She was awarded a four-year scholarship to New York University by Elizabeth Murray and won first place in painting from the Martin Wong Foundation. While at NYU, she studied with Maureen Gallace and Ross Bleckner. She continued her training at the Art Students League with Sharon Sprung and at the Grand Central Atelier under Jacob Collins, Colleen Barry, and Will St. John. Michelle’s work has been exhibited in Manhattan, Long Island, and internationally in Poly International’s first American Contemporary Art auction in China. She received the Richard C. Pionk Memorial Award at the Salmagundi Club and was selected as a copyist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she studied Rembrandt’s self-portraiture. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the New York Academy of Art, where her research and practice focus on the psychological dimensions of representation. Her current work engages themes of alienation, intimacy, and the limits of visibility in an increasingly performative culture. 

The Art League of Long Island is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to broad-based visual arts education, providing a forum and showcase for artists of all ages and ability levels. Since its inception in 1955, the mission has focused on enhancing Long Island’s cultural life by promoting the appreciation, practice and enjoyment of the visual arts. Collaborative events and outreach programs spread the joy of creativity among every segment of the population. 

For more information about the Art League of Long Island, please visit their website at 

www.artleagueli.org. 

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increasingly performative culture.