Exploring Light See Bentley Meeker’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 resin, birch, canvas, 3200K LED, and 5600 LED 40” x 40” x 8” These meticulously constructed sculptures comment on the intersection of human culture and the natural world. Meeker’s works scrape down our experience of artificial light to its rawest components. Using contrasting light…
New York City
Spring 2019 Highlights By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. For several years now, galleries have been opening in or relocating…
Fay Wood
See Wood’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 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. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Six years ago, artist Fay Wood and her husband sold their large, inspirational church in…
Eric Maroney
From WTP Vol. VII #5 Devoted By Eric Maroney “Tis too much proved—that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself.”–Shakespeare Or sits and writes at the table and often turns her gaze toward the clouds congealing in the heat bubbling above her like a milky copula. The clouds arrive,…
New Hampshire/Vermont
Spring 2019 Highlights By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has reopened.…
PHANTOMS by Christian Kiefer
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Phantoms by Christian Kiefer (New York: Liveright Publishing, April 9, 2019). 288 pages; $26.95, hardcover ISBN 9780871404817. “These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself….” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora…
Things I Carry Into the World
“Like thunderclouds, I don’t stray far from earthly things” Video by Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood Inspired by the work of four New York City poets, THINGS I CARRY INTO THE WORLD is an abstract meditation on the body, the feminine, the everyday realities of being young and black, and the fragile relationship between the…
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…
Jean Poythress Koon
Depression See Jean Poythress Koon’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 pine needles, copper foil, straight pins, watch band, watche, hasp, faucet handle 8” x 4” “I live at the edge of a salt marsh and this fragile environment has become my muse. It provides salt marsh hay for coiling, and shells for bases, but…
Susan Cantrick
Paintings Made from Digital Montages Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Susan Cantrick is an American painter who lives and works in Paris, France. In 1997, due to chronic tendonitis, she left her career as a violinist to pursue visual arts studies in Paris for several years. During that time, she had her first…
Liz Dexheimer
“I’ve always been interested in suggesting a sense of place, the timelessness of the natural landscape.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Liz Dexheimer’s paintings and works on paper have been exhibited widely in the Northeast and Southeast. Her work, including commissioned pieces, is in numerous private and corporate collections, including the corporate headquarters…