Comfort in the Contemporary Public Space By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Ea ten Kate is a Dutch artist living and working in Sweden. She is influenced by the rich and varied ritual vocabulary found in indigenous cultures and religious imagery. On her site, the overarching theme of comfort for the public space is explored within the…
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Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
February 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap height=”20″] The Ultimate 2018 Art Fair List Caroline Goldstein from Artnet News has put together their definitive list of fairs for the entire year, covering the entire world!…
Site Review: Trixie Pitts
The Development of an Abstractionist By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Trixie Pitts is a Nashville abstract painter who has been on the international art scene for over thirty years, having lived in major cities in Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. Her site largely is a retrospective dating from 2003…
Art Spotlight: Britta Fluevog
Institute of Making See Britta Fluevog’s work in WTP Vol. VI #1 handspun warp, mohair, rocks, silk, stoneware, wool approx. 11′ x 10′ x 10′ My work brings together a strong aesthetic and material-based practice into the realm of social justice. I use weaving, ceramics, performativity, and process as manifestations to expand the discourses of…
Literary Spotlight: Dina Elenbogen
From WTP Vol. VI #1 All This Time By Dina Elenbogen It is true what you’ve said about the birds They have gone invisible into winter not south just bowed down in prayer for lighter air Some mornings everything becomes apparent icicles turn from rain to rivers When the ground unfreezes they rise…
WTP Artist: Laura Noel
“It is very important to me to find fresh ways to examine the past.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Laura Noel is a photographer, bookmaker, mixed media, and installation artist in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her work as a street photographer, though over the years, her art has evolved into finding fresh ways…
Site Review: Konmark
Photography and the Psyche By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Konmark is a photographic artist and researcher exploring the themes of mortality, spirituality, and the human condition as it relates to the psyche and evolution of consciousness. Photographically, he experiments with manipulating the photographic image and/or combining it with other media to create a personal style…
Eye on The Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa Boston: Beacon Press, March 27, 2018. 288 pp., paperback $18.00, ISBN 9780807005866; hardcover $27.95, ISBN: 9780807044889; e-book $25.95, ISBN: 9780807044926. (Hardback originally published 2017.) First published 2016 by…
An Anatomy Lesson
The Master’s “Mistake” By Rebecca McGraw Thaxton, M.D., WTP Guest Writer I am a general practitioner and my husband is a surgeon. One morning at breakfast I placed a picture of Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson” in front of him and said, “What do you think?” His eyes went immediately to the dissected forearm, and he reflexively…
Art Spotlight: Shirazeh Houshiary
Slow Time See Shirazeh Houshiary’s work in WTP Vol. VI #1 Since rising to prominence as a sculptor in the 1980s, Shirazeh Houshiary has expanded her practice to encompass painting, installation, architectural projects, and film. “I set out to capture my breath,” she said in 2000, to “find the essence of my own existence, transcending…
Literary Spotlight: Lynn Lipinski
From WTP Vol VI #1 The Dying Kind By Lynn Lipinski 2017 Honorable Mention for the Literary Sheila arrived at Mrs. Harper’s house in midtown Tulsa around four in the afternoon, nodding her head violently to eighties-era punk rock by a band called Agent Orange blasting out of the car’s one working speaker. She parked…
WTP Artist: Britta Fluevog
“The framing of textiles as fine art was really important to me.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Britta Fluevog is a third-generation artist, whose grandmother was a printmaker; mother an art therapist/ mixed media artist; and father a designer. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from NSCAD (Nova Scotia College…