Category: WTP spotlight: art

Umbrella and Chess See Maria Santacecilia’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 Ink, pencil, and acrylic 11″ x 22″ I build my works with a sense of fragmentation that the graphic art tries to unite to rationalize. The intention is also the excuse, to move my hand in those unified lines, to change the directions…

Specters on the Sound Puget Sound, Washington See Mike XVX’s work in Vol. V #1 Photograph For the past several years I’ve developed an ongoing body of work entitled Dead Cities, which is a thorough documentation of abandoned and forgotten places across the world. I have traveled extensively with my musical projects and have set…

Dear Landlord See Okamoto’s work in Vol. V #1 Oil on canvas 30″ x 40″ My paintings perform a kind of surrealism that incorporates animals, plants, everyday objects, landscape, and ethereal beings. I paint them into my paintings as an icon of a death, life, and/or nature…

Sedna, Goddess of the Sea See Keith Plummer’s work in Vol. V #1 Bone, copper sculpture 6″ x 18″ x 4″ Legend of Sedna, Goddess of the Sea Sedna is an Inuit legend about a sea goddess who becomes the mother of all sea creatures. According to the legend, Sedna lived on the Arctic with…

Gathering Light 28 See her work in Vol. V #1 Oil/cold wax medium on canvas 60″ x 60″ My work is composed of larger meditative paintings on panel or canvas that were painted in my studio at home, and were inspired by travels to Scotland and Sweden; and smaller, more gestural works on paper that…

The Loon Series Looking Back on 2016 See his work in Vol. IV #6 Three individual pieces Ink, inkwash, oil, acrylic, and paper on canvas 94″ x 58″ Ink is a material that can be reapplied on the image carrier. This phenomenon is not the primary motivation, but in its application an increasingly exciting field…

Mask 1 Looking Back on 2016 See his work in Vol. IV #7 Poplar wood, acrylic paint 12″ x 14″ x 2.5″ My current sculptures are inspired by forms found in nature. I am interested in the progressive qualities of botanical forms and how they always find ways  to grow despite many obstacles. These obstacles…

Falconer’s Headdress Looking Back on 2016 See her work in Vol. IV #3 Printed feathers 16 ⅞” x 17 ¾” A deep knowledge of the art of other cultures – and the way it relates to our own – informs Jewell’s own elegant and allusive work. A highly-skilled printmaker, she makes etchings of significant images…

Under the Surface Looking Back on 2016 See her work in Vol. IV #4 Mixed media on canvas-cement 28″ x 28″ Fišić refers to her work as “sculptural abstract paintings.” She is always experimenting with new materials, including recycled ones: oils, burned cement, wood, sand, remnants of industrial materials. Using colors, structures, and textures can…

Wheel I See his work in Vol. IV #10 Archival pigment print 59.5″ x 88″ Stephen Althouse, 2009. Excerpts from a letter responding to a Museum Collection Researcher at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois: Weaning Halters, Saw II, and Wheel I were inspired by a friendship between Althouse and Elam Beiler, an Amish…

Alegre Polvo Veraniego I See her work in Vol. IV #10 12″ x 12″ acrylic over plaster on canvas Vivian has shown her work in both individual and collective shows in United States, Spain, and Colombia. She has been published in multiple books, magazines, and web pages, and has received multiples awards. Vivian has spent…