A Photographer with a Vision By August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Sharon Stepman’s site is divided up into subjects such as “oceans,” “people,” and “flowers,” that at first glance may seem a random smattering, but as one explores her evocative and strange photography, a singular consistent vision emerges, both playful and brooding, foreboding and inviting. It’s…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Belladonna New York: New Directions, October 31, 2017. 400pp., $19.95, paperback ISBN: 9780811227216, e-book ISBN: 9780811227223. Author: Daša Drndić Croatian novelist, playwright, literary critic, and translator Daša Drndić is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University…
Video: Speaking in Bootongue
Between the Living and the Dead Video by Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley “Speaking in Bootongue” represents the visual and aural language used between the cities of the living and the cities of the dead. Traditionally, the image of an empty boot denotes the loss of an esteemed leader. In Bootongue, the empty boot is…
Site Review: Gerasimos Platanas
Nuanced Variations in Black-and-White Photography By August Smith, WTP Feature Writer When you first visit Gerasimos Platanas’s site, you’re greeted by a single, emblematic photograph: a silhouette of a human figure centered in a vortex of blurred white light. It’s an image full of kinetic energy and potentiality; the figure is indistinct, and the perimeter…
Book Review: Cold Wax Medium
A Different Kind of Wax Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor COLD WAX MEDIUM: TECHNIQUES, CONCEPTS & CONVERSATIONS by Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin (Squeegee Press, 2017). 320pp, $42. Until now, there has not been a comprehensive resource specifically dedicated to Cold Wax Medium. This beautiful and informative book is the state-of-the-art reference source that…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
January 2018 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Brain Pickings Poet W. C. Williams proclaimed (as if to T.S. Eliot): “no ideas but in things,” and gave us “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Sherwood Anderson…
Site Review: JT Thompson
Geometric Surrealism By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor On his site, JT Thompson describes his work as rooted in an interest of the subconscious. “I am deeply intrigued by the tension between an individual’s public persona and the hidden, unspoken, or even unknown elements of the psyche.” As an abstract oil painter, he explores concepts that…
Art Roundup: Brooklyn
Fall 2017 Highlights By John S. Berman, 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. In the last decade, Brooklyn has emerged as a…
Site Review: Gina Louthian-Stanley
Experimenting with Monotype and Encaustic By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Artist Gina Louthian-Stanley believes “a painting is not made with theory alone, the materials are also a vital component.” Though her work develops intuitively, she may begin with a predetermined medium, technique, and color palette. The end results of exploration of various surface preparation and…
Art Roundup: New York City
Fall 2017 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. With so many outstanding art exhibits this fall in New York…
Art Roundup: Boston
Fall 2017 Highlights By Marni Elyse Katz, 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. I can see sixty-two pieces of art from the desk…
Art Spotlight: Catherine Spencer
Torn Seams Third Place for Fine Art See Catherine Spencer’s work in the 2017 Special Winners Edition oil on canvas 18″ x 18″ A direct correlation can be drawn between my paintings and having lived a majority of my life in rural America. My current body of work is filled with complexities and hidden tensions that…