Rodrigo Valenzuela, who was born in Chile, lives and works in Los Angeles, where he is an assistant professor and head of the photography department at the University California, Los Angeles. Valenzuela works across photography, video, and installation, merging his interest in art history, architecture, the concept of work, and the realities of laborers. He…
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Discovering Connectivity Between the Parts
Inside the Studio with Etty Yaniv Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. See Etty Yaniv’s work in WTP Vol. IX #6. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Three years ago, mixed-media artist Etty Yaniv found a perfect…
The Hyperreal by a Self-Taught Artist
Cher Pruys is a self-taught, hyperrealist Canadian artist living in Devlin, Ontario. By age three, she was seldom found without a drawing tool in hand. Over the years, she worked in pencil, charcoal and ink, until, at the age of thirty-five, she picked up a paintbrush and began painting with oil paints. Later, she found…
A Shipyard as One Artist’s Muse
Inside the Studio with Howard Hersh Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. See Howard Hersh’s work in WTP Vol. IX #2. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For decades, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco…
The Salvaged
Textile Art Salvaged Video by Rachael Wellisch “This was a collection of salvaged elements presented as an immersive installation. These were materials discarded and pushed aside, now reworked and put together to form a space of wonder to appreciate cycles and connections within our environment.” Soundtrack by Peter Houtmeyers and filmed by Ami Phi. Rachael…
Collage: One Artist’s Answer to Writers Block
Kim Triedman is a practicing visual artist and an award-winning poet and novelist living in Arlington, MA. She works primarily in collage and mixed media and often uses her own photography in her pieces. Much of her work focuses on issues of gender expectations, historical perceptions of femininity and sexuality, and the weight and challenge…
Paintings Inspired by High and Low Art
Beverly Kedzior is an American painter in Chicago whose works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group events in the United States. She translates her love of cartoons into abstract works through bulbous images that invade backgrounds, as well as medical illustrations. Kedzior’s artistic process has a lot in common with printmaking, as she…
Everyday Materials as Art
Jaynie Crimmins, a New York City-based artist, creates alternative narratives from quotidian materials. Her work has been shown at Art on Paper, New York City and exhibited at the Sharjah Museum of Art in the United Arab Emirates; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York; Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York; the National Museum of Romanian Literature…
Metal Sculpting
Inside the Studio with Hans Schüle Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. See Hans Schüle’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #9. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Twelve years ago, Hans Schüle moved from Berlin to a…
Photocollage as Painting
Amy Ragus is a photocollage/mixed media artist who considers herself a painter who uses photo fragments as brushstrokes on a larger field. Her work in photocollage has been exhibited in one-person and group exhibits in the US and abroad. She was a founding partner of Fine Arts Express, Inc. and an assistant professor of Art…
A Fiber Sculptor’s Industrial Studio
Inside the Studio with Sophia Ruppert Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. See Sophia Ruppert’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #7. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Seven months ago, Sophia Ruppert moved her studio from the…
The Art of Non-Measured Geometry
Tom Martinelli was born in New York City. His artwork has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, as well as internationally in Vienna, Austria, London, and Manchester, England. Martinelli, who now lives in New Mexico, has been a recipient of…