Category: WTP spotlight: art

The Child’s Quiet Chair See Lisa Bartell’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 oil on canvas 46″ x 46″ In a way, I’m returning to my childhood habit of staring at wood grain and discovering faces. Each painting begins with a dark hue brushed in various directions creating nebulous forms. Standing back from the canvas…

X-Ray See Mara Elizabeth’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 double exposure photograph As an artistic medium photography suffers from the common misconception that it is fundamentally a documentary tool; that photography is more or less a creative twist on a technology produced in order to record an objective reality. My goal as a photographer…

The Mount See Irene Pouliassi’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 in situ installation in Florinas’ old army barracks canvas, molded teeth, plaster, acrylic 157″ x 157″ x 118″ Osteotopia sets human existence as a point in a infinite time-frame, there is underlined irony and controversy. In one hand you have a Molded replica of…

Doctrine See Don Bergland’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 digital print 24″ x 30″ Bergland describes his current work as a version of Neosurrealism with the objective of eliciting questioning attitudes in the mind of viewers. He creates his work using both traditional and digital tools, focusing on an integration of 3-D modeling software and…

Untitled From Project “Entanglements” See Rachel Rozanski’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 charcoal on paper 59″ x 55″ These works are part of a larger series examining biological, geological, and material transformations occurring in the Anthropocene. This catalogue of unidentifiable items born of or morphed by human civilization represents the “imperfect” components that make…

Not What You Say, Not What You Do, But Who You Are See Paula Rae Gibson’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 photograph with chalk and paint these images are part of a project which talks about love, all its shadows, all its changing directions, all that it churns and doesn’t churn, especially when it…

Humble Beginnings/Solitude See Mohan Sundaresan’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 acrylic on canvas handwoven 52.5″ x 69″ My latest works are acrylic on canvas. Each one starts out as two paintings. The paintings are turned over and lines are drawn on them. I cut the paintings along the lines into strips. To complete the…

Waterlilies See Sandrine Hermand-Grisel’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 digital photograph Young swimmers playing in the cool blue water pools of the brief summer season. The days are bright and long, but these sunlit months are fleeting, like childhood itself. I watch them, aware, observant, spurt of water, successful or failed spins, dives or other…

Lost Creek Wilderness See David D’Agostino’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 acrylic and sumi ink on canvas 20″ x 24″ A simple walk in the New Mexico wilderness both enthralls and terrorizes me. Suddenly, a desert thunderstorm creates whirling pools of blindness or iced rivers propel an irreversible slip of bone and muscle. Based…

The Owner of Chaos is Thought See Hildy Maze’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 oil and paper 38″ x 39″ My abstract contemplative work is developed with the view that art has the capacity to infuse the experience of everyday life with awareness. Using my experience of passion, aggression and ignorance I delve into…

Evan (of Mixed Race) See Nathan Madrid’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 This series investigates our culture’s perception of ‘the other and otherness’ and how prescribed labels determine society’s behavior toward a social group because of race, gender, sex, class, and religion. When someone is perceived to challenge the dominant group’s values and beliefs,…