Art as Personal Paradigm By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Lali Torma was born in communist Romania and migrated to Canada where she began a new life in the financial industry. On her website, she describes how her new career lacked personal expressive opportunities and why she began to explore painting. After completing an MBA from…
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Art Spotlight: Sharon Stepman
Elephant See Sharon Stepman’s work in WTP Vol. VI #5 matt paper 16” x 22” Using subjects from daily life, Stepman challenges reality; in her photos, foreground and background become a flat space. Sharon Stepman attended the Art Students League as a student of George Grosz, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, with…
Literary Spotlight: Lynne Viti
From WTP Vol. VI #5 It’s the Real Thing By Lynne Viti My father’s tavern sat on the corner of North Kresson and Fairmount Avenue, though Fairmount was no avenue. It was a wide cinder stub of a road, flanked by the Halls family’s gritty brown house and across the street, the tavern, last in…
WTP Artist: Laurie Borggreve
“Many of my pieces involve creating hundreds of tiny individual elements…” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Laurie Borggreve is an American artist and sculptor. Her early years were spent studying design, studio arts, and art history in Minneapolis. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, she moved to San Francisco, where she focused on…
Site Review: Capucine Bourcart
Photography as Collage By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Capucine Bourcart is a contemporary photographer who has lived and worked in Harlem for the past eleven years. A rich multi-cultural background cultivated by extensive world travel, her Vietnamese origins, and having been raised in the Germanic region of Alsace, France, serve as a the framework for…
WTP Artist: Julia Randall
“My drawing method has to be so finely honed that it ultimately disappears…” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Julia Randall’s drawings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and she is the recipient of fellowships and residency awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Cité Internationale des Arts…
Art Spotlight: Anastasia Komarova
Body See Anastasia Komarova’s work in WTP Vol. VI #5 chromogenic print 26” x 39” Super Nature Series It was Komarova’s first time visiting New York, when, after walking all day in the financial district, she took an express train to Far Rockaway: “It was a rush to have been transported in an underground tube,…
Literary Spotlight: AR Dugan
From WTP Vol. VI #5 Last Dispatch After Partial Resection By AR Dugan I try not to imagine / your real color / when they removed pieces of you / carefully, trying not to wake me. / I can’t help but think of you, / now and forever. / It would be easier if you…
WTP Artist: Zac Benson
“My father is an artist so I grew up around art all my life.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Zac Benson is an international artist whose work has been shown in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and the United States. He has had public commissions in Australia, California, New York, and Washington, D.C. He graduated with…
Site Review: Christina Saj
A Contemporary Iconographer By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor In her website, Christina Saj describes a fascination with geometric abstraction with a preference for modernism and a keen sense of historical context. Her family’s rich history in Ukrainian art and culture broadened her perspective as she searched for her own visual voice. She states, “I attempt…
Art Spotlight: N.R. Hills
The Piranesi Code (Orange) See N.R. Hills’s work in WTP Vol. VI #4 collagraph 11 3/4” x 8 3/4” Having worked in numerous different media over the years, my fortuitous discovery of the medium of the collagraph has introduced me to a medium which enables me to fully embrace my passion for texture. I am constantly…
Literary Spotlight: Eric J. Smith
From WTP Vol. VI #4 Jesus in the Form of a Goat By Eric J. Smith QuikStop wall clock says 9:23. I ask Dolores for the bathroom key, and she hands it over without saying nothing about paying customers. I walk across the lot. Someone pulls in for gas, taking the turn heavy. Nearly hits…