Website Review: Daniel Shieh By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Daniel Shieh is a young artist from Taiwan who, in a relatively short period of time, has built an impressive CV while studying and creating in the United States. On his site, danielshieh.com, you can find his early works in sculpture, and see their evolution into…
Category: reviews: fine art websites
Websites cited here were submitted by artists and writers for review. In our reviews, WTP editors consider actual website design and ease of navigation, but first and foremost, seek to highlight is content–to grow the online presence to these noteworthy cyber talents.
Aerial Photography as Fine Art
Website Review: Matya Shick By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, and the people you have loved.” Matya Shick’s website, www.tutishick.com, opens with this quote…
Abstract Watercolors: Unusual Compositions
Website Review: Marcie Jan Bronstein By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor The opening page of Marcie Jan Bronstein’s website, marciejbronstein.com, grabbed my attention with an atypical composition that quietly dominates the page. I found it atypical in that we rarely see abstract watercolors, especially compositions with hard edges and irregular forms. At first glance these forms have…
Painting with Gold Leaf
A WTP Website Review By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Christine Olmstead’s early childhood benefited from having an art historian for a mother, who exposed her to many styles of painting. This early exposure to impressionism and later realism influenced her as young emerging artist, though eventually she would pursue abstraction. She states on her site,…
Raja Oshi
Paintings That Speak to Women By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Raja Oshi is a Sudanese artist now living in South Africa. Her painting is clearly inspired by her life experiences and expresses the oppression, pain, and suffering of Sudanese women. Having grown up in a male-dominated culture of limited opportunities, poverty, and violent abuse of…
The Representational vs. the Abstract
A WTP Website Review By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Marie E. Saint-Cyr is a Haitian-American painter based in Suffolk, NY, who migrated to the United States from Haiti when she was eight years old. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and a summer program at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute in…
Maya Kuvaja
Mixed Media Inspired by Magical Realism By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Inspired by the literary movement Magical Realism, Maya Kuvaja’s storytelling paintings explore the way we perceive and construct our own realities. It’s no wonder she includes in her artist statement a quote by Gabriel García Márquez: “What matters in life is not what happens…
Cindy Rinne
Fiberverse: Quilted Paintings By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor The first paragraph of Cindy Rinne’s artist statement is a quote by Josef Albers: “To experiment is at first more valuable than to produce; free play in the beginning develops courage.” For over thirty years, Cindy Rinne has embraced that philosophy in her mixed-media fiber work, by…
Joshua Field
Surreal Paintings and Works on Paper By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Joshua Field is a surrealist painter who creates dream-world narratives that entice the viewer into making emotional connections. On his website, joshuafield.com, you’ll find an impressive collection of paintings grouped by theme, followed by smaller projects and works on paper. There is a quiet meditative quality…
Sarah Nesbitt
Photography Challenging Objectivity By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Photography has long been perceived as objective visual truth. However, a photograph can alter perceptions and be just as open to misinterpretation as recorded history, and it is within this discrepancy where multimedia photographer Sarah Nesbitt finds her inspiration. For her images, she researches forgeries, memory, misattribution,…
Kathy Ferguson
Magical Paintings Between Sleep and Awakening By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Kathy Ferguson is a mixed-media abstract painter living in Colorado and New York. On her website www.kathyfergusonart.com you’ll find several series of whimsical, colorful, and organic compositions of surreal and imaginary worlds that she describes as “[m]ore illusionary than authentic; places more commonly found in dreams than…
Site Review: Maya Dunsky
Abstract Art Series and Butoh Dance By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Maya Dunsky is a multidisciplinary artist, butoh dancer, choreographer, and painter. Born in Israel, she studied there as well as in Japan, and now lives and creates in Zickron Yaakov, Israel. She is professionally trained in classical ballet, butoh dance, and the fine arts. Butoh…