“I Gave Myself the Challenge of Painting Without Paint.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Theresa Knopf is a recent graduate of the California State University at Northridge where she studied painting. Using a mixed medium including paint, textiles, thread, and cyanotype prints, Knopf creates pieces which reflect on women’s histories through restraint, concealing, and revealing. Jaeger:…
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Dreamers
“12 Dreamers” and “Dancing with the Devils” By Jeff Alu See his work in Vol. IV #8 Jeff Alu is an experimental whose work crosses a line between science and art. He writes, “My style hovers between documentary and a semi-dreamlike state. I’m constantly searching for what I like to call “clues.” These clues generally…
WTP Artist: Julia Wright
“Pushing the limits is the only way to challenge complacency in design.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Julia Wright is a textile artist and designer currently living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design. Jaeger: In “Structural Understanding,” (above) appearing in this month’s issue you explore the…
Exhibition Review: Unfinished Business
At the Parrish Art Museum By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle is a grouping of three artists who were friends for decades, and all who wound up on the east end of Long Island where the Parrish is located. But their similarities are…
Art Spotlight: Alison Ye
Statement See her work in Vol. IV #8 Statement ceramic, underglaze, glaze 10″ x 10” 10” Alison Ye is from China, and earned her BFA in Ceramic from Sichuan Fine Art Institute and her MFA in Sculpture from Academy of Art University. She is inspired by her personal and friend’s love stories. She creates playful…
Jeff Alu: Playing with Scale
Ventures in the Tilt-Shift See his work in October’s Vol IV #8 issue One of my favorite techniques in photography is to play with scale. Or more specifically, making it difficult to tell how big or small something is. I want m viewers to look at a photo, do a double-take, and wonder “Just what the…
Gross and Wapiennik's Freak Show
Collaborative Calm Behind the Carnival View Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennik’s work in Vol. IV #7 Artistic collaborations can often be tenuous arrangements, especially when the traditional expectation or practice of the artist is to create alone. However, as Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennek, the artists behind Freak Show have shown, collaboration can spark artistic growth and works…
Art Spotlight: Kathryn Baczeski
Claystack See Baczeski’s work in Vol. IV #7 Claystack is an “object experiment” created by dipping the straw of one entire bale into clay slip, and then firing the resulting mound. Gravity caused ‘Claystack’ to sag and morph during the process. Considering the long history of ceramic objects made by hand, ‘Claystack’ was formed by the…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
Chattanooga, a City Cafe, and MOMA By Donald Kolberg, Contributing Editor After a short summer hiatus, I’m back to my blog and bringing you art stuff from around the Web. I was in Chattanooga (stayed at the Cho Cho Hotel, the old train station.) and spent some time looking at the regional art. If you’re…
Walking on Egg Shells
Performing Anticipation Video by Kathryn Baczeski Kathryn Agnes Baczeski is a visual artist from Southbury Connecticut. She received her BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Connecticut in 2009. She is currently earning her MFA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. Baczeski is an avid dreamer and believer that anything…
Seeing in New Ways
Photographic Composition By Jeff Alu Look for his work in upcoming Vol. IV #8 Everything is a good photographic subject. There are no bad photographic compositions. I was incredibly lucky and honored to have given an artist talk to the Disney Imagineering Photography Group last year. One of the Imagineers bought my photography book at…