“There are challenges to creating modular paper sculptures that are like carving stone.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Francene J. Levinson, who was born in Brooklyn, is a digital artist based in Portland, OR. She has transformed modular, three-dimensional origami into fine art. She draws inspiration from nature, with series on birds, oceans,…
Category: artist Interviews
Amy Kanka Valadarsky
Experiments in Fine Art Photography Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Kanka Valadarsky is a photographer based in Even Yehuda, Israel. She was born in 1964 in Romania, where she spent the first eight years of her life before moving to Israel with her family. After graduating as a software engineer, she worked…
Ken Collins
“It is my firm belief that having a film background is a great advantage working in digital photography.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Ken Collins is a professional photographer and artist in New York City. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including American Theater, New York Magazine, The New York Times, ARTnews,…
Gordon Leverton
“I think of media as different games— one might be bridge and one, chess.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Guest Writer Gordon Leverton is a self-taught Canadian artist who was awarded honorable mention at the 2014 Juried Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. He received first place awards in the Junction Juried Art Exhibition and the Riverdale Art Walk…
WTP Artist: Rebecca Giles
“I am a realist painter, but we can never paint exactly what we see …” Interview with Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Rebecca Giles is a still life painter who was born in Media, PA, but grew up in Europe and the Middle East. At the age of twelve, Rebecca discovered oil paints when she befriended an Uzbekistani…
WTP 2018 Winner: Alexander Klang
“Analog technology is slower, and therefore allows for more of what I like to refer to as an ‘awareness’ while photographing.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Alexander Klang is a photographer who was born in Dusseldorf and works in Berlin. He specializes in analog portrait photography. He is currently enrolled in a two-year…
WTP Artist: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
Photography Inspired by Painting Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Photographer Sandrine Hermand-Grisel grew up in Paris and London before relocating to the United States. She studied international law, then in 1997 decided to dedicate herself full-time to photography. Influenced by her late mother’s sculptures and her husband’s paintings and films, she worked on…
WTP Artist: Naomi Schlinke
“Ink is unparalleled in its fluidity, staining intensity, and transparency.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Naomi Schlinke is a Texas-based artist, whose work has been exhibited at the Robert McClain Gallery in Houston, The Dallas Contemporary, Texas State University in San Marcos, D. M. Allison Gallery in Houston, Women and Their Work, D…
WTP Artist: David Quinn
Finding Beauty and Drama in Long Island By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer David Quinn is a self-taught photographer in Setauket, New York, who became interested in photography in his early fifties. He focuses mainly on creating landscape, flower, and nature images with an occasional venture into street and architectural pictures. In his artwork,…
WTP Artist: Nguyen Thi Mai
Finding Happiness and Balance Through Art Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Nguyen Thi Mai is a self-taught, Vietnamese artist focusing on acrylic and lacquer painting. In 2004, she committed to creating art, moving from Singapore to Hanoi, where she took lessons in oil painting at the Art & Lacquer Club. She has participated…
WTP Artist: Greg Skol
Contemporary Landscape Collage Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For the past thirty years, Greg Skol has been an artist, working in Los Angeles and San Francisco before eventually settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990. His artwork has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, and other cities. The Albuquerque…
WTP Artist: Mary Reilly
Drawing and Toning with Eight Layers of Graphite Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Mary Reilly’s art has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York City at Garvey/Simon Art Access and the Museum of the City of New York, as well as other galleries, and in numerous group exhibitions. Her work has been…