Painting with Light Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Liz Nielsen is a Brooklyn-based artist whose works have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Paris, London, Budapest, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Her photographs are printed in the analog color darkroom, with handmade negatives and found light sources. They range in size from 100-by-100-inches to 8-by-8-inches.…
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Francene J. Levinson
“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,…
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: 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: 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…
WTP Artist: Laurie Borggreve
“Many of my pieces involve creating hundreds of tiny individual elements…” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Laurie Borggreve is an American artist and sculptor. Her early years were spent studying design, studio arts, and art history in Minneapolis. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, she moved to San Francisco, where she focused on…
WTP Artist: Julia Randall
“My drawing method has to be so finely honed that it ultimately disappears…” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Julia Randall’s drawings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and she is the recipient of fellowships and residency awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Cité Internationale des Arts…
WTP Artist: Zac Benson
“My father is an artist so I grew up around art all my life.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Zac Benson is an international artist whose work has been shown in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and the United States. He has had public commissions in Australia, California, New York, and Washington, D.C. He graduated with…