Online courses & mentoring with

Michael Foley

Developing your vision

AS A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Course 1

Instacrit

The Online Porfolio Review.
Spend time reviewing your work or plotting career strategies in these individual laser focused sessions.

20 minute / 45 minute sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley
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Course 2

Community Crit

Take an extended deep dive into a community of like-minded artists that help you develop and finish a body of work.

Six Month group career devlopment

Instructor: Michael Foley
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Course 3

Perfect match

Placing Your Work In The Fine Art World.
A thorough exploration into the gallery world from the perspective of artist and gallerist.

3 weeks - 3 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley & Elinor Carucci
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Course 4

Your History of photography

Sources And Trends Of Contemporary Practice.
Follow history and discover how your work fits into the conversation.

5 Weeks - 3 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley + Specials Guests
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Course 5

the exhibition lab

Critique And Exhibition.
Develop and refine your work in a critique setting while working toward a gallery exhibition.

6 months - 3 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley & Elinor Carucci + Special Guests
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Course 6

The Art of the artist statement

Translating Your Visual Art Into Words.
Learn to speak and write about your work without artspeak and hyperbole.

2 Weeks - 3 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley
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Course 7

Mixed Up Media

Artists using additional media with their photography.
Assignment based classes coupled with new work development and critique.
Let's get messy

6 weeks - 2.5 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley
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Course 8

Difficult viewing

Working with challenging subject matter.
When we make work that both attracts aesthetically and repels with difficult subject matter.
Short lectures and ongoing critique of new work.

10 Weeks - 3 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley
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Course 9

Advanced Mixed Up Media

Artists using additional media with their photography who have already taken "Mixed Up Media".
New work development and critique.
Let's get messy, again

6 weeks - 2.5 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley
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Course 8

Difficult viewing

Working with challenging subject matter.
When we make work that both attracts aesthetically and repels with difficult subject matter.
Short lectures and ongoing critique of new work.

10 Weeks - 3 hour sessions

Instructor: Michael Foley
Coming Soon

Your Guides

Elinor Carucci

Artist/mother

Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York that same year. Her work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide, solo shows include Edwynn Houk gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, and Gagosian Gallery, London among others and group shows include The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago and The Photographers’ Gallery, London. 

Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications. 

She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has published three monographs to date, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002 and Diary of a dancer, SteidlMack 2005 and MOTHER, Prestel 2013. In fall of 2019 Monacelli Press published her fourth monograph, Midlife. 

Carucci teaches at the graduate program of Photography and Related Media at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery, where she will have a solo show of Midlife in (if Covid 19 allows) 2020.

Michael Foley

Artist/educator/gallerist

Michael Foley opened his gallery in the fall of 2004 after fourteen years of working with notable photography galleries including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery.

The gallery has been invited to participate in over twenty international and national art fairs include Paris Photo, Pulse New York and the London Art Fair.  The gallery has been a member of AIPAD for three years.

Gallery exhibitions and artists have been reviewed and written about in several publications including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Modern Painters and ArtNEWS.

In 2009, Foley co-founded The Exhibition Lab, a study center for people involved in various aspects of fine art photography.  He is a mentor and coach to dozens of independent photographers with a focus on refining their vision and preparing their work professionally.

Foley continues his interest in educating by serving on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography at the undergraduate and graduate levels.   and the International Center of Photography where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography. 

He has been a portfolio reviewer at over 25 photography reviews throughout the United States. 

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