2020 Artist Pulse

An interview with WTP artist Nikoleta Sekulovic on “The Strawberry Thief,” her current exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack gallery.

WTP artist Coralie Huon discussion her passion for nature and how she merges that with creative expression through her drawings.

Mixed-media artist Susan Mastrangelo talks her monoprints and her paintings, which incorporate fabric and knits made by herself.

Collage artist Michele O’Brien discusses how the sculptural influences her collage-making process, her typical workday, and what’s next.

Lia Rothstein works in a wide variety of artistic mediums and elaborates on her process and journey in this WTP interview.

Coming from an art and STEM background, Michal Gavish creates works inspired by collaborations with biologists and chemists.

WTP artist Lauren Taylor Grad shares her journey as an artist, decision to pursue her MFA, and how her pieces explore biology and connection.

WTP artist Edward Lee discusses the different mediums he’s used over the years and his journey to digital painting.

Photographer Rodrigo Valenzuela discusses his series of works as a modernist trilogy, and inspiration he takes from Latin American history.

Cher Pruys is a self-taught artist who started creaating luminous, hyperreal paintings after a career teaching music.

Kim Triedman moved from creating literary art to creating fine art collage, inspired during a bout of writers block years ago.

Beverly Kedzior’s paintings are not only inspired by techniques of modern fine artists, but also by cartoons and children’s books.

Jaynie Crimmins creates her paper installations from everyday materials, such as shredded financial statements or catalog mailers.

WTP Artist Amy Ragus approaches the creation of her photocollages as a painter, who uses photo fragments as brushstrokes on a larger field.

Tom Martinelli speaks to his development as an artist, to the non-measured, handmade geometry of his current paintings.

Caitlin Hurd’s surreal landscapes appear in WTP Vol. VIII #6. She speaks to these and her other projects in her WTP interview.

Gladys Nilsson is an original member of the Hairy Who and one of the first women to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney.

WTP artist Christina Massey’s works, sculptures and collages made from aluminum, are inspired by textile patterns.

Nikola Olic’s abstract photography plays with hidden shapes and patterns in buildings to display reimagined architecture.

Amir Hariri left a career in engineering and design to become a full-time artist, creating paintings, elegraph printmaking, and mixed media sculpture and installation.

“Using found materials has led me to become a scavenger or as some have said, a hunter-gatherer.” Marsha Balian is a self-taught mixed media artist who incorporates found objects and invention into her work.

Jasper de Beijer warps the divide between drawing, photography, and sculpture in his dreamlike photographs that often depict historical periods and events.

Madara Tropa on the artist as a primitive shaman with the capacity to recognize a problem and be recognized as a projection of desire for change.

Wen Yu is a multi-media artist from Suzhou, China, who now lives in Boston where she creates research-based projects that integrate art, technology, story-telling, and tangible materials.

Christine Olmstead is a painter who experiences synesthesia. Her mixed-media paintings focus on movement and mood, as well as the use of color, metallic, and reflective elements.

In the era of Photoshop, John Greiner-Ferris encourages photography simplified: “The underlying image, for me at least, has to be well-composed.”

Eileen Murphy creates oil paintings and landscapes that “almost” capture reality, experimenting with perspective.

Heather Gorham’s figurative artwork revolves around the tangible interpretation of the everyday in which she creates—with a twist—a dreamy window into common experiences.

interviews with painter Amy Bennett, whose small-scale paintings are modeled after miniature 3-D models she actually creates herself.

“Drawing has become an intuitive way to process information and concentrate for me.” Jen Bradley’s stunning gorilla portraits appear in WTP Vol. VII #6.

“To remain a curiosity is one of the things that can make a work of art successful.” Abstract paintings by Henry Jackson appear in WTP Vol. VII #6

Painter, architect, and interior designer John M. Humphries on how his different mediums of work inform each other, the challenges of watercolor, and his exploration into ceramics.

Susan Cantrick creates digital montages from photographs of her completed paintings to create studies for new works. Behind her work, a fascinating hybrid of the tactile of painting and then the digital.

“I’ve always been interested in suggesting a sense of place, the timelessness of the natural landscape, the interplay of the ephemeral and the enduring in the natural world.”

Arts Editor Richard Malinsky spends time with WTP artist Helen Cantrell, exploring her early beginnings, influences, and her recent successes. Cantrell’s paintings appear in WTP Vol. VII #4.

“Like Monet studied the light on the haystacks and painted them over and over at different times of the day, I’ve been creating photograms that have the same shapes but shifting and changing light.” Liz Nielsen speaks to her photograms, appearing in Vol. VII #3.

“When joined, it has a beautiful, textural, flowing, dynamic strength which I find inspiring.” Francene J. Levinson shares behind the scenes of her modular paper sculpture, inspired by the Chinese Zhe Zhi art of paper folding.

“After twenty-five years of creating intangible software products, I felt the need to do something concrete and creative, use my hands not just my head.” WTP artist Amy Kanka Valadarsky shares her journey to photography and behind the scenes of her process.

“It is my firm belief that having a film background is a great advantage working in digital photography.” Ken Collin’s portrait photography won an honorable mention in WTP’s 2018 contest. More about his work in our artist interview.

“I think of media as different games—one might be bridge and one, chess.” In our WTP interview, contributor Gordon Leverton speaks to his evolving series of works and exploration of different media throughout his career.

Rebecca Giles speaks to the inspiration behind her striking, “glowing” still-life paintings.

An interview with Alexander Klang, whose black-and-white photography was awarded first place in this year’s art competition.

WTP photographer Sandrine Hermand-Grisel speaks to the process and inspiration behind her various series of works.

Naomi Schlinke on the development of her ink paintings, the relationship between medium and style, and more.

Self-taught nature photographer David Quinn finds artistic and unique ways to capture the nature of Long Island, New York.

“Through art, I was able to achieve balance and harmony within my inner self.” Nguyen Thi Mai, on her journey and growth as an artist.

Greg Skol, on the development of his mixed-media landscape collages, the benefits of small scale, and his many inspirations.

Mary Reilly’s detailed graphic drawings, highlighting the nature of New York City, appear in June’s magazine. Behind the scenes of her work.

WTP artist Laurie Borggreve’s sculptures often involve hundreds of small pieces creating one installation.

Julia Randall’s surreal drawings, with hyperrealist technique, appear in June’s WTP.

May WTP artist Zac Benson gives readers more insight into his performance and installation art.

Karen Fitzgerald, on her attraction to the tondo form and using gold leaf in her artwork.

Nancy Breakstone finds images in the sand along a Costa Rican beach in her fine art photography.

Susan Clinard’s expressive sculpture has appeared in the former White House, the city of Bridgeport, and April’s WTP magazine.

Barry Masteller’s photographs, which he abstracts during and after production, appear in April’s magazine.

Emilia Dubicki interviews Bill Hall and Rebecca Michelman to gain insight into Hall’s art-making and Michelman’s curatorial process, and how the two crossed paths.

“The trick is to have a lot of patience!” Shea Wilkinson talks her history and process with free motion quilting.

Dillon Samuelson’s impressive portraiture appears on the cover and in WTP Vol. VI #2.

“It is very important to me to find fresh ways to examine the past.” Laura Noel’s photography appears in Vol. VI #1.

Britta Fluevog’s weaving and installations explore social justice and address the subjects of refugees, borders, globalism, and colonization.

“Even though there are only two colors used in the Blue Van Dyke photographic process, their interaction with each other is constantly fascinating me.” Bronwen Hazlett talks her photography series, featured in Vol. VI #1.

J. Ivcevich creates his Shred series using shredded newspapers and advertisements and acrylic applied with a dental syringe.

Barbara Bryn Klare works primarily with fiber, reacting to historical artifacts, physical landscape, and the current political climate.

Alan Bray, “the visual poet laureate of nature,” creates works in casein capturing the natural phenomena in Maine.

“I am more interested in a vague, slightly psychological impression of reality.”

“It’s the artist who is in no hurry, who takes the long road, that I admire. The risk takers and those undaunted by money or fame. Those are the ones who are revolutionary.”

Interview with multi-media artist Katherine Daniels, whose beaded sculptures appear in WTP Vol. V #9.

Teresa Meier “stitches” together her works using Photoshop, illustration, and a custom-built computer.

WTP Artist Amy Cheng talks combining Eastern and Western heritage in her paintings, the role teaching plays in her art, and her recent foray into public art.

Amy Genser rolls paper and uses the rolls to create images and installations evocative of nature.

Mayme Kratz talks reconciling differences, using found objects, and how she approaches art and the natural world in this WTP interview.

Vol. V #7 artist Tao Ho strives to reconcile the chaotic imbalances of photography in his abstract analog photographs.

Photographer and teacher Jessica Maria Manley talks her latest Melissa project, which explores the turning point from childhood to adulthood.

Contributing editor John Skoyles interviews Connecticut-based artist Emilia Dubicki, who began to pursue painting after a career in writing and publishing.

“It seems almost impossible that our actions can affect anything as vast as the oceans.” Emily Jaeger interviews printmaker Barbara Milman.

“This gives me the impetus to create, the belief that the glitter of metals is more than mere reflections.” Emily Jaeger interviews Eduardo Terranova.

“Art is a basic component of human nature” Emily Jaeger interviews Agnieszka Gzyl on her original technique of painting with silicone.

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde discusses the wide variety of his work in an interview with Richard Malinsky.

“By miniaturizing the landscape…it is possible to protect, nurture and regenerate that which is endangered.” Jean Eng on her surrealist paintings.

Richard Malinsky interviews kinetic sculptor and designer Tim Prentice, whose work resides in private residences, public spaces, and museums around the world.

“I am very interested in hybridity as tool for discovery.” Emily Jaeger interviews Brianna Baurichter about her hybrid art in charcoals.

An interview with Don Bergland on his digital artwork, a theater of startling hybrids creatures which invite the viewer to enter a new world of possibility.

Emily Jaeger interviews Holly Wong about her transition from figurative paintings to installations made of sewing thread, paper, and other found materials.

“Time is layered and not frozen into one single moment,” Leah Oates. Features Editor Emily Jaeger reviews Leah Oates’s photography series Transitory Spaces.

“Variables actually help me reach for new challenges and push the limits.” Emily Jaeger interviews Sooo-z Mastropietro about her textile art.

Brian Wehrung gives a behind-the-scenes look into his abstract photographs which utilize Extractive Reductionism to hone in on shape and color.

“In each place I visited, I studied the local flora and fauna.” Yasuaki Okamoto gives a behind-the-scene view into his bright, surreal paintings.

Black-and-white photographs of found objects, fabric, and hidden codes.

Behind Susan Malmstrom’s photography series, photographs of Victorian style dioramas.

Painter Ryan Schroeder gives a behind-the-scenes look at his artistic process, mixed-mediums, and inspirations.

“Women Who Wear Crowns,” Ivette Cabrera on her empowering drawings.

Kelly Zélen, on her artistic process of sculpting steel wool into shade-like figures which portray hidden emotions.

Gil Desiano Bitton gives a behind-the-scenes look at how he paints marginal groups in Israeli society into the center.

A behind-the-scenes look at Ketelhut’s paintings in WTP Vol. IV #9.

Lubov Lemkovitch on her journey as an artist, immigration to Israel, mentorship, and her perspective on the art of portraiture.

“I was inspired to retell the tale of Moby Dick through a different cultural lens.” A behind-the-scenes look into her series Mythopoeia.

Teresa Stanley gives a behind-the-scenes look into her series “Subterranean.”

Theresa Knopf gives a behind-the-scenes look into her multi-medium artwork.

Sometimes pushing the limits is the only way to move forward. An interview with Julia Wright about her recent work in textile arts.

Gross and Wapiennik talk about their collaborative success, Freak Show, a book combining illustration and photography to portray urban blight.

Stina Persson gives a behind-the-scenes look into fashion painting.

Interview with Donald Martiny, whose installations appear at the World Trade Center in New York.

Hamilton Glass on graffiti art and painting murals: his colorful graphic style is unmistakable, influenced by the streetart of his childhood.

“I prefer the paint to have the consistency of Vaseline or creamy peanut butter, as I work from all sides, to create a set of brushstrokes that address the viewer in their own space and at their own scale.”

The versatile styles of Marketa Sivek: “The process of painting is so fluid. It’s an exercise of a brain and body in unison. Sort of like dancing.”

David Morrison, on his hyper-realistic drawing with colored pencils.

Sculptor Judy Stone, on the unique art of enameling.

“I don’t know if there is ever a lack of the experimental in art.” Interview with collage artist Melinda Tidwell.

Dana Filibert creates whimsical sculptures using the medium foam.

Contributor William Vollers on his inspiration, history with design, and time in the studio.

Kathy Blankley Roman works in oil and cold wax painting. Behind her choice of medium and more.

An interview with Leila Philip on her collaboration with Garth Evans for Water Rising.

Interview with WTP Artist (now WTP Editor), painter Richard Malinsky.

“Contemporary Expressionist is what I like to call myself, after all, I am a woman of today and am expressing myself!”

“Every Day is a Studio Day.” Interview with artist Patricia Anders.

“Make artwork to satisfy yourself and your style will eventually emerge.”