Category: WTP spotlight: art

Breathing Room See Christopher Owen Nelson’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 carved and painted cast acrylic 32″ x 48″ Nelson thrives in the vast arid landscape of the American West. As a Colorado native, he studied Fine Arts at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he learned classical methods in drawing and…

Morning Shower See Erika Morillo’s work in WTP Vol. V #1 digital photograph Becoming a single mother at a young age proved frightening to me, and not for the obvious reasons. I felt a huge responsibility to create a nurturing childhood for him, different from the dysfunctional one I had lived. With these images I…

The White Whale See Brian Wehrung’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 dye sublimation print on aluminum 20″ x 30″ Color, line, geometry. These are the basis of many of the objects that we experience every day. When we look at, say, a building, or an automobile, we are seeing a complex object constructed from these…

Ag-04 See Eduardo Terranova’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 silver-plated plaster on burlap 36″ x 36″ Light, shadows and an infinity of scintillations emerge to become the subject matter of the new relief-like works. The works evoke then an incredible sense of light, space, movement and time. My key elements in art are plaster,…

Leoncillo Leonari No. 2 See Heather Teets’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 inkjet print 8″ x 8″ Revealing my connection to place lies at heart of my photography. I am interested in documenting narratives from ordinary moments that possess a kind of sublime, surreal beauty. For me these visual inventories are a form of…

Looking for Landscapes #2 See Michael Woodhouse’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 archival pigment print 13″ x 19″ My work is my reaction to the familiar definition of what is an image of the landscape. Within the confines of my home I attempt to create new landscapes from found National Geographic magazines and ink…

Education for All #5 See Guilherme Bergamini’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 mineral pigment on cotton paper 28″ x 41″ Democratic societies presume educated citizens, that is to say, it presumes well-informed and critical people, both because it requires them to be able to determine their preferences and choose among different alternatives, and also…

Transformation 24 See Sharmon Davidson’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 monotype collage with mixed media 7″ x 7″ Whatever the medium, my process involves gradually building up layers of various materials such as oil-based printing inks, watercolor, acrylic ink, colored pencil, and collage elements to synthesize a unified whole from the parts…The images are formed…

A Dance of Two Hearts See Bonnie Shanas’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 wire mesh, spray paint 48.5″ x 39.5″ I create figurative sculptures from wire mesh (a galvanized steel used in construction). While most forms of sculpture are additive or reductive, I enjoy the unique challenge of manipulating a form out of a single…

Maestro See Brut Carniollus’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 digital collage digital UV print up to 39″ x 39″ Being essentially a collector of images, I find photography to be the perfect media, as it gives me a tool to harvest images almost unconsciously. Collected pictures are then, and not so seldom years after…

Sound of the Earth See Aga Gzyl’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 silicone on linen 39″ x 39″ With a degree in architecture, Aga Gzyl worked at a commercial real estate company in Poland for seventeen years, designing interiors and facades for shopping centers and shop windows. She learned to work with an assortment…