Experiencing Sound Art at Dartmouth By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Take seven internationally-acclaimed artists whose work has graced world-renowned venues like the Tates Modern and Britain, the Shanghai and Berlin Biennales, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Commission them to produce new, site-specific works, and then bring them and their installations to…
Art Spotlight: Emilia Dubicki
Breaker See Emilia Dubicki’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 oil on canvas 44″ x 72″ For me painting is about asking questions, questions that can’t always be put into words and may not have immediate answers. Ultimately, the art has to be about seeking the truth. From empty canvases something emerges—another question, another painting.…
Literary Spotlight: Katrinka Moore
From WTP Vol. V #8 Riverbank By Katrinka Moore At dusk they climb down from the ridge, slope dense with goat’s-thorn, and lie on a low sandy bank. Across the river limestone cliffs rise straight out of the water. A bad place to sleep if rain comes but they are tired, do not think. Deep…
Site Review: Neil Leinwohl
Photographs That Read Like a Painter’s Sketchbook By Richard Malinksy, Arts Editor “My art is about personal mythology. The unreliable nature of memory,” Neil Leinwohl explains on his website, where he features current work as both a photographer and painter in New York City. After years of part-time painting and taking thousands of random photographs commuting…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
October 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap height=”20″] Vintage Signs from Los Angeles To create a reductive linoleum block print, you need to carve successive layers in a process made popular in the ’50s,…
WTP Artist: Amy Cheng
“Each painting is the product of a slow meandering journey the painting and I take together…” By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Cheng was born in Taiwan and raised in Brazil, Oklahoma, and Texas. She received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of…
Site Review: Nicole Small
Unifying Creativity: One-on-One Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Nicole Small’s site is much like a personal diary, or journal. Rather than cherry picking only her best work and presenting it in a formal exhibition format, she chooses to share her work in progress. The viewer is encouraged to follow her creative ideas, personal challenges,…
Art Spotlight: Yasemin Kackar-Demirel
The Parting Site See Yasemin Kackar-Demirel’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 mixed media on paper 26″ x 20″ One usually takes comfort in feeling grounded in this world. In my paintings and drawings, I reflect on the notion of groundedness in physical space with the intention of deconstructing it. I like to explore the…
Literary Spotlight: Nick Sweeney
From WTP Vol. V #8 Monstrous Men By Nick Sweeney A Gift from the Italians As a child, I lived in an apartment overlooking K Street, the imperial city centre of pageantry and postcards. When I started piano lessons with Mr Z, our music room contained only a piano and two stools. It was gradually…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
October 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief This roundup I’m dedicating to our October 31 deadline for our first annual literary and art WTP contests—it is fast approaching. We had extended the deadline, as I suppose we’re testing the waters as to when is optimal time (if there is one) to sponsor a contest. To recap,…
Book Review: Free Ferry
A Growing America in the Nuclear Age By Linda Simone Linda Simone’s poetry publications include Archeology (Flutter Press, 2014) and Cow Tippers (Shadow Poetry Press, 2006). Her poems, essays, and book reviews appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Born and raised in New York, she now lives in San Antonio, Texas, where the landscape and…
WTP Artist: Amy Genser
“I am fascinated by the imperfect perfection in nature.” By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Genser plays with paper and paint to explore her obsession with texture, pattern, and color. Evocative of natural forms and organic processes, her work is simultaneously irregular and ordered. She uses paper as pigment and constructs her pieces by…