Pensile Blossom See Katherine Daniels’s work in WTP Vol. V #9 beads and wire 51” x 8” x 5” In a Venn diagram my work occupies a space where painting, sculpture, and craft intersect. An obsessive focus on color and composition are taken from my formal training as a painter. My paintings became sculptures when I…
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Literary Spotlight: Paul Corrigan
From WTP Vol. V #9 A Photograph of My Father Fishing By Paul Corrigan My father is sprawled on the ground squeezing out his dripping socks after a day of fishing. His back rests against a cedar tree as he looks away from the camera down at his feet. He wears a green felt hat,…
Gallery Profile: Station Independent Projects
“My aim is to present a variety of work from mid-career artists who I think have a fresh take on their media and themes.” Leah Oates is the founder of Station Independent Projects, a Lower East Side gallery in New York City that opened in September 2012. Prior to opening Station Independent Projects, Oates curated…
Site Review: Teresa Meier
The Fine Art of Montage By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Teresa Meier is a fine art photographer, and her engaging website opens with “The Approach,” a mystical, surreal montage of a woman seated with a suitcase and birdcage afloat in a vast, calm sea. This work from her series The Witness Within, featured in WTP Vol. V…
Art Spotlight: Amy Cheng
Into the Breach See Amy Cheng’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 oil on canvas 36″ x 60″ The artistic lineage I follow is ancient, and has separate roots in the Far East, the Middle East, and the West. In the East, the mandala, which dates from prehistory and continues as a living tradition to…
Literary Spotlight: Joan Frank
From WTP Vol. V #8 Shake Me Up, Judy By Joan Frank The first thing I do these days, when planning travel, is to want not to go. Mortal risk, hindrance. Bad idea. I’m not proud of this unpretty, animal panic, this dumb shuttered obstinacy like a dog’s. There are plenty of reasons for it.…
WTP Writer: John Skoyles
“I think of myself as a poet who writes in other genres.” Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer John Skoyles has published six books of poems, most recently, Inside Job and Suddenly It’s Evening: Selected Poems. His autobiographical novel, A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry, was published in 2014. His work has appeared in…
A Special Sentence Structure
“Cumulative form fosters a rich, lovely, rhythmic prose style.” By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon. Plume: The Great Courses, 288 pp. Brooks Landon wants you to write longer sentences. His belief in them goes against decades of teaching…
Exhibition: Resonant Spaces
Experiencing Sound Art at Dartmouth By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Take seven internationally-acclaimed artists whose work has graced world-renowned venues like the Tates Modern and Britain, the Shanghai and Berlin Biennales, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Commission them to produce new, site-specific works, and then bring them and their installations to…
Art Spotlight: Emilia Dubicki
Breaker See Emilia Dubicki’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 oil on canvas 44″ x 72″ For me painting is about asking questions, questions that can’t always be put into words and may not have immediate answers. Ultimately, the art has to be about seeking the truth. From empty canvases something emerges—another question, another painting.…
Literary Spotlight: Katrinka Moore
From WTP Vol. V #8 Riverbank By Katrinka Moore At dusk they climb down from the ridge, slope dense with goat’s-thorn, and lie on a low sandy bank. Across the river limestone cliffs rise straight out of the water. A bad place to sleep if rain comes but they are tired, do not think. Deep…
Site Review: Neil Leinwohl
Photographs That Read Like a Painter’s Sketchbook By Richard Malinksy, Arts Editor “My art is about personal mythology. The unreliable nature of memory,” Neil Leinwohl explains on his website, where he features current work as both a photographer and painter in New York City. After years of part-time painting and taking thousands of random photographs commuting…