“Do you know the story about the scorpion and the frog?” Video by Ginat Salman Ginat Salman is a 28-year-old photographer from Tel Aviv, Israel, specializing in conceptual portraiture, landscapes, and urban photography. She is currently studying for her Bachelor’s degree at the Minshar College for Photography and Art.
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WTP Artist: Gil Desiano Bitton
From Margin to Center Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Gil Desiano Bitton is a painter living in Tel Aviv. He received his MFA from The Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College. Bitton’s work was featured in multiple solo exhibitions in Israel, including The Artists House, Tel Aviv and Sissman Gallery, Tel…
Literary Spotlight: Savannah Thorne
Hurricane Isabel: September 12 See her work in Vol. IV #9 The rain is the marrow in the bones of the house. Storms are letters handwritten in water. I sleep surging in the water of dreams. What drops drops like apples through cold green depths to childhood, to memory, to whatever is unearthed on murky…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
November 2016 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. 1. 9 Italian Art Terms You Should Know: I have found that when I visit thrift stores I head to the books looking for—wait for it—art books. No great…
Free Online Portfolios for Visual Artists
Marketing Your Work by Shawn McNulty Shawn McNulty is a contemporary visual artist from Minneapolis, MN, whose work can be found in public and private collections all over the world. There are several high-traffic websites that allow artists to upload work and maintain a free portfolio. As an artist, it’s in your best interest to…
WTP Artist: Daniel Ketelhut
The Vitality of Becoming Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Daniel Ketelhut is an emerging painter who currently resides in San Diego, California. Ketelhut received a B.A. in Studio Art from San Diego State University. He has participated in the Art Pulse Mentor Program in San Diego, under the mentorship of McLean Emenegger and Peter Frank. Ketelhut’s…
Art Spotlight: Jane Skafte
Oil Spill See her work in Vol. IV #9 Colored pencil 22″ x 28″ I create imaginary landscapes by looking at schematics, aerial views, weather maps and scientific illustration, all of which rely on symbolism more than observation, and I manipulate them to make intentional distortions in proportion…My compositions invite the viewer to observe earth…
PaletteArt
From Accident to Environmental Art Movement by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor According to Lisa Levasseur, the founder of PaletteArt, the movement began as a fruitful accident: “When I painted my first acrylic painting, I was mixing too much paint and it would dry before I could use it all. So, I chipped it off my…
Book Review: Tula Telfair
Invented Landscapes by Richard Malinsky Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes; Abrams; October 18, 2016; U.S.; 160 pages; $60 Hardcover Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes presents a wide range of Telfair’s major paintings, at once both intimate and grandiose. Its focus is on the power of the landscape and fragility of nature informed by her childhood divided between four continents, and…
Latest Read: Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century
An Exercise in Range by Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century By Anne Lee and E. Ashley Rooney. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2016. $59.99. The precise temperature regulation of the wax in the honeycomb is the same basic principle applied to the encaustics medium. With the addition of damar resin and color pigments, today’s artists can…
Studio Snapshots: The Private Spaces of Creatives at Work
An Artists Open Studio Tour By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Having grown up with an artist as a mother, I have always revered that private space of the creative at work; a space that resonates of the artist’s individuality, and a reason I’ve always enjoyed studio tours—over the years, having helped my mother prepare her own…
Lubov Lemkovitch: The Architecture of Emotion
Lubov Lemkovitch on Portraiture by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor In her portraits appearing in this month’s issue, Vol. IV #9, Lubov Lemkovitch portrays up-close the subtle strength and interior emotions of her female subjects. Trained as an artist in Kishinev and Israel, Lemkovitch has exhibited her work internationally, including exhibiting at Art About, an Israeli…