Video Generates Abstract “Pre-Paintings” Video by William A. Brown “I amuse myself with many conceits but I have a particular fondness for my importance as an artist with a track record for serious explorations that push the boundaries of what exactly defines painting, video, and sculpture. With painting I’m trying to find new digital solutions…
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Meditative Painting
Designed to Heal our Eyes and Hearts By Donald Brackett, WTP Guest Writer Time Shadow, The Ambient Paintings of Bernadette Jiyong Frank. July 9 – August 29, 2020, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco. This remarkable body of work by Jiyong Frank, in its harmonious entirety, is the opposite of the hyper-speeds of technology and celebrates…
Unity in Fiber Art
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Tara Kennedy completed an MA in Textiles at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham in 2018 and is currently developing…
Description Brings the Past to Life
“Simple Things Beautifully Described” By WTP Guest Reviewer Philip Lawton Telling Sonny: A Novel by Elizabeth Gauffreau (New York, NY: Adelaide Books, December 1, 2018; 340 pages; $22.30). In Telling Sonny: A Novel, Elizabeth Gauffreau brings her extraordinary gift of observation to the insular world of inland America in the mid-1920s. Faby Gauthier, the central character,…
Coming out to Mami
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the author of Visionware (Finishing Line Press), and the editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to…
Alternate History of the Atomic Age
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer (Rockville, Maryland: CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC, June 2, 2020; 374 pages; $16.99; trade paper ISBN 978-1-64710-013-1). Published in Canada by Red Deer Press…
Light in the Darkness
Dark Before Dawn Video by Elder Gideon Set on a vast prairie landscape, Dark Before Dawn is a short experimental documentary that plumbs the liminal moment of balance between light and darkness, beginning and end. From the same dark silhouettes of the landscape, this intimate meditation unfolds scenes gazing east into the dawn or west…
Reimagined Architecture
Nikola Olic is a Serbian photographer living and working in Dallas, Texas, who focuses on architectural photography and abstract structural quotes that reimagine their subjects in dimensionless and disorienting ways. His photography has appeared in various galleries, art events, museums, magazines, newspapers, spaces, and websites around the world, including Wired.com, BBC News, The Guardian, Yahoo.com,…
Vol. VIII #5
This month in WTP: Clay portraits, fiber and tin can sculpture, constructed watercolors, a story of Mbuna Dunes, a poem about coming out in Mami, and more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
Philip Lawton
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Odes to the Lost and Found
Write an ode to something that’s been lost, or recovered… A Poem Prompt from Sue D. Burton Write an ode to something that’s been lost. It could be silly, a lost sock, or it could be very serious. What comes up for me are the hundreds of wooden synagogues in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, burned to…
An Artist's Cottage
Inside the Studio with Frances Ferdinands 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. See Frances Ferdinands’ work in WTP Vol. VIII #3. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Eight years ago, painter Frances Ferdinands changed her life dramatically.…