“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…
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…
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…
Art Spotlight: Anastasia Komarova
Body See Anastasia Komarova’s work in WTP Vol. VI #5 chromogenic print 26” x 39” Super Nature Series It was Komarova’s first time visiting New York, when, after walking all day in the financial district, she took an express train to Far Rockaway: “It was a rush to have been transported in an underground tube,…
Literary Spotlight: AR Dugan
From WTP Vol. VI #5 Last Dispatch After Partial Resection By AR Dugan I try not to imagine / your real color / when they removed pieces of you / carefully, trying not to wake me. / I can’t help but think of you, / now and forever. / It would be easier if you…
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…
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…
Art Spotlight: N.R. Hills
The Piranesi Code (Orange) See N.R. Hills’s work in WTP Vol. VI #4 collagraph 11 3/4” x 8 3/4” Having worked in numerous different media over the years, my fortuitous discovery of the medium of the collagraph has introduced me to a medium which enables me to fully embrace my passion for texture. I am constantly…
Literary Spotlight: Eric J. Smith
From WTP Vol. VI #4 Jesus in the Form of a Goat By Eric J. Smith QuikStop wall clock says 9:23. I ask Dolores for the bathroom key, and she hands it over without saying nothing about paying customers. I walk across the lot. Someone pulls in for gas, taking the turn heavy. Nearly hits…
Innocence in Art
“Innocence is the ground of art, its very foundation” By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer Recently, one of my paintings was included in a curated show at an art center in Vermont. I had no great hopes for the work being purchased or written about, as it was too far from the art circles of…
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…