A Treasure Trove of Information By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Meredith Sue Willis’s website is packed with information about writing and teaching, her life as a prolific writer, and resources to craft a marketable book. She splashes her website with images of her book covers, family photos, and other authors. She provides links to…
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Site Review: DeJeonge Reese
Culture and Body Image in Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor DeJeonge Reese began her art training in ceramics as an undergraduate at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Later, while earning her MFA at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, she began working with other materials and established new creative concepts. She set out to…
Site Review: Lali Torma
Art as Personal Paradigm By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Lali Torma was born in communist Romania and migrated to Canada where she began a new life in the financial industry. On her website, she describes how her new career lacked personal expressive opportunities and why she began to explore painting. After completing an MBA from…
Site Review: Capucine Bourcart
Photography as Collage By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Capucine Bourcart is a contemporary photographer who has lived and worked in Harlem for the past eleven years. A rich multi-cultural background cultivated by extensive world travel, her Vietnamese origins, and having been raised in the Germanic region of Alsace, France, serve as a the framework for…
Site Review: Christina Saj
A Contemporary Iconographer By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor In her website, Christina Saj describes a fascination with geometric abstraction with a preference for modernism and a keen sense of historical context. Her family’s rich history in Ukrainian art and culture broadened her perspective as she searched for her own visual voice. She states, “I attempt…
Site Review: Dorothea Osborn
Dichotomies and Hybrid Works By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Dorothea Osborn is a cross-disciplinary artist who incorporates into her paintings and drawings dichotomies between physical and spiritual realms. Based on the ephemeral and fragmentary of both society and her own personal life, these works are a complex working and reworking of mediums, leading to multiple…
Site Review: Naomi Schlinke
Random vs. Intentional in Abstract Painting By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Naomi Schlinke describes two artistic careers in her website. During the 1970s and early ’80s she was a professional modern dancer and choreographer with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and the Joe Goode Performance Group, both based in San Francisco. The San Francisco contemporary…
Site Review: Ellen Woods
Abstract Painting Reflecting Nature By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Ellen Woods’s lyrical abstract paintings are inspired by her deep respect for the natural environment and the human connection to nature. Living and working at a high altitude in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado allows her to witness seasonal patterns and forms and the evolving topography.…
Site Review: Sheila Grabarsky
Vibrant Display of Acrylic Paintings By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Sheila Grabarsky opens her artist’s statement with “I paint because I bleed Alizarin Crimson.” While this may not be literally true, it certainly is metaphorically. There are quite a few other colors also! Her website “Gallery” is a beautiful and vibrant display of this New…
Site Review: John Diamond-Nigh
Furniture as Provocative Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor On his website, John Diamond-Nigh describes how he began his artistic career as a wood-turner, carving on a lathe that rotates much like a potter’s wheel. “I had come of age in the art furniture movement here in the states,” he states. “I loved the grass-roots,…
Site Review: Lisa Sears
Painting over Digital Collages By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Lisa Sears is a Midwestern artist interested in historical artwork, architecture, and feminism—all of which find their way into her imagery. Her website focuses on her unique process of carefully planning and designing her images in Photoshop, creating a mechanical grid over the composition, building a canvas…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
April 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Simple Shape, Complex Painting John Gibson says, “I paint balls because they are the most simple and fundamentally different thing from the flat surface of a painting that…