Category: WTP spotlight: art

Pointless Self-Portrait 04 See Froso Papadimitriou’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 fabric, acrylic, ink, pigment, thread on recycled canvas 16” x 24” Froso Papadimitriou experiments with multiple art forms, including painting, art installation, drawing, sculpture, video, and craft. Personal experience, observations, and social behaviors and their dynamics have become her raw materials, as she…

Paper Towns #6 See Greg Skol’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 oil on panel 6″ x 6” My work is about evocation, not transcription. I try to speak to our human connection with our natural environment, through images that transcend specificity of place. As we are both a part of that nature and apart from…

Belly Dancers See Nguyen Thi Mai’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 acrylic on canvas 51” x 39 There are three common ingredients that always influence my work: colors, music, and the feminine form. I use neutral and rustic colors, to symbolize the old and the simple things in life. Colors that are found in antique…

Stony Brook Harbor II See David Quinn’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 archival inkjet on Museo Max matte paper 16’’ x 20’’ Over the years, my photographic interests have primarily centered on creating landscape, flower, and nature images with an occasional venture into street and architectural pictures. In many of my photographs I strive…

Family Vacation See Elizabeth Albert’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 chromogenic print 12.25’’ x 18’’ I began photographing with the Holga camera shortly after my daughter was born. As a busy mom with a newborn and a two-year-old, it was especially challenging finding time to make art. What I could do, however, was plan…

Was, Might Be See Hanna Vogel’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 steel wire, abaca and cotton paper, pigment, rust, sealant 15’3” x 6’11” x 7’10” I use craft-based materials and techniques in sculptural ways, to evoke growth, decay, and the tenuousness of the environment. My work addresses aspects of physical existence on the edge…

Hammock See Eric Zener’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 oil on canvas 60″ x 70″ My work reflects our collective desire for transformation into something ideal. In my paintings I seek to create a sense of sanctuary using the subject of water and our connection with it. Orphaned from the sanctuary of youth we are…

Small-Scale Sculptures See Jay Kelly’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 All works are mixed media; various combinations of metal, Japanese paper, gesso, acrylic, and/or wood. Sizes range between 3″ and 12″ Jay Kelly’s small-scale sculptures are recognized for their whimsicality and enigmatic origins. They share a lightness of form and an acute senes of proportion…

Leo See Michael Kesselman’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 mixed media 9″ x 9″ x 5″ Simple and accessible, my sculptures portray common objects in unexpected forms that are surprising, intelligent, beautiful, and humorous. Made from incongruous components, they attempt to define the essence of things by disrupting our expectations: is a chair with five…

Twilight See Keiji Shinohara’s work in WTP Vol. VI #5 woodcut 11.13” x 17.13”, ed. of 30 While living in Kyoto, I trained for ten years in the traditional Japanese woodblock printing style known as Ukiyo-e. The technical foundation for my artwork is rooted in that training, accompanied by techniques of contemporary western printmaking. Yet…

EstructurasTransformativas SI 034 See Maria Martinez-Cañas’s work in WTP Vol. VI #5 pigment print 20” x 16”, edition of 3 Maria Martinez-Cañas brings a sense of her own history and past, as well as a fresh and experimental attitude, to all of her work. Her medium can best be described loosely as “photo-based” in that…