From WTP Vol. VI #7 Drang Valley 1965 By Carl Boon As the world begins to break in three— three hawks fleeing, three sailboats in different and uncompromising winds— I see myself as stone and blood again. I touch my sunburned throat, I say to her who cannot listen, there is, after all, no God…
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Inside the Studio: Dorothea Osborn
See Osborn’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7. Inside the Studio offers a behind-the scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Painter Dorothea Osborn draws inspiration from her home-based studio. She loves its location on the Normanskill…
Art Roundup: Provincetown
Summer 2018 By Marni Elyse Katz, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Provincetown, MA, will be featured annually with an exclusive summer coverage. Summer…
Art Roundup: Brooklyn
Summer 2018 Highlights By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. It’s been quite a year for the Brooklyn Museum. The…
Art Roundup: New York City
Summer 2018 Highlights By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. I was in midtown on a broiling August weekday. New York…
Art Spotlight: Faizan Adil
Sonder Seclusion #7 See Faizan Adil’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7 digital photograph Sonder Seclusion is an opinion-based presentation of how I envision human emotions, so that the viewer can interpret them within the frame of their own personal references as chaotic nature. The majority of these works are stacked images, reminiscent of Alexey…
Literary Spotlight: Robert Klose
From WTP Vol. VI #7 Sisters By Robert Klose If all the Russians in my small Maine town were planets, then Galina Sergeivna would be the star they orbited. In good times and bad, in joy or need, she was their center, their stillpoint. Nothing they said or experienced could surprise her. Having survived the…
Art Roundup: Los Angeles
Summer 2018 Highlights By Emily Nimptsch, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Notions of representation and diversity lie at the very heart of…
Art Roundup: New Hampshire/Vermont
Summer 2018 Highlights By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. By design—or by happenstance—Vermont and New Hampshire galleries were showcasing…
Site Review: Jean Sbarra Jones
Dresses as Poetry and Metaphor By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Jean Sbarra Jones is an award-winning artist living and working in Salem, Massachusetts, whose series of acrylic paintings of women’s dresses has earned significant critical acclaim. On her site, she documents the painting of this dress over the period of a decade: first worn by…
Site Review: Laurie Borggreve
Innovative Use of Everyday Materials By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Laurie Borggreve is a mixed-media sculptress who delights in discovering new ways to use conventional materials. Hundreds, if not thousands, of individual components that alternate between precise assembly and fluid composition characterize the work on her website. Her ambitious compositions are informed by current events,…
Art Spotlight: Khaled Akil
Inversion See Khaled Akil’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7 Diasec mounting print 55” x 39.5” This modern society that we have created for ourselves is like a fishbowl. We have forgotten our natural relationship to the world by limiting ourselves to this artificial habitat. For each work in this series, I started by scanning…