Site Review: Konmark

Site Review: Konmark

Photography and the Psyche By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Konmark is a photographic artist and researcher exploring the themes of mortality, spirituality, and the human condition as it relates to the psyche and evolution of consciousness. Photographically, he experiments with manipulating the photographic image and/or combining it with other media to create a personal style…

Site Review: Margie Criner

Site Review: Margie Criner

Sculpture Within Sculpture By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Margie Criner’s site offers a broad spectrum of both her three- and two-dimensional works. These works, rich explorations into the complex interconnection between all living things, are strongly rooted in design, but with a healthy mix of play as she reshapes and distorts conventional expectations. And influences…

Site Review: Lorraine DeProspo

Site Review: Lorraine DeProspo

Capturing the Experience of the Sea By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Lorraine DeProspo describes herself as “a painter, ceramic artist, and an assembler of things.” Her site presents a body of work that clearly reflects a deep and reverent relationship with nature, with an affinity to sea, sky, and particularly fog. She translates this inspiration…

Site Review: Sharon Stepman

Site Review: Sharon Stepman

A Photographer with a Vision By August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Sharon Stepman’s site is divided up into subjects such as “oceans,” “people,” and “flowers,” that at first glance may seem a random smattering, but as one explores her evocative and strange photography, a singular consistent vision emerges, both playful and brooding, foreboding and inviting. It’s…

Site Review: Gerasimos Platanas

Site Review: Gerasimos Platanas

Nuanced Variations in Black-and-White Photography By August Smith, WTP Feature Writer When you first visit Gerasimos Platanas’s site, you’re greeted by a single, emblematic photograph: a silhouette of a human figure centered in a vortex of blurred white light. It’s an image full of kinetic energy and potentiality; the figure is indistinct, and the perimeter…

Site Review: JT Thompson

Site Review: JT Thompson

Geometric Surrealism By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor On his site, JT Thompson describes his work as rooted in an interest of the subconscious. “I am deeply intrigued by the tension between an individual’s public persona and the hidden, unspoken, or even unknown elements of the psyche.” As an abstract oil painter, he explores concepts that…

Site Review: Gina Louthian-Stanley

Site Review: Gina Louthian-Stanley

Experimenting with Monotype and Encaustic By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Artist Gina Louthian-Stanley believes “a painting is not made with theory alone, the materials are also a vital component.” Though her work develops intuitively, she may begin with a predetermined medium, technique, and color palette. The end results of exploration of various surface preparation and…

Site Review: Neil Leinwohl

Site Review: Neil Leinwohl

Photographs That Read Like a Painter’s Sketchbook By Richard Malinksy, Arts Editor “My art is about personal mythology. The unreliable nature of memory,” Neil Leinwohl explains on his website, where he features current work as both a photographer and painter in New York City. After years of part-time painting and taking thousands of random photographs commuting…

Site Review: Nicole Small

Site Review: Nicole Small

Unifying Creativity: One-on-One Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Nicole Small’s site is much like a personal diary, or journal. Rather than cherry picking only her best work and presenting it in a formal exhibition format, she chooses to share her work in progress. The viewer is encouraged to follow her creative ideas, personal challenges,…

Site Review: Catherine Spencer

Site Review: Catherine Spencer

An Interior Life on Canvas By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Catherine Spencer’s website dramatically opens with this big, bold, and emotionally charged image (above). Many abstract painters subscribe to the philosophy of their work transcending the two-dimensional surface, hence allowing for the viewer’s own unique and particularly subjective…

Site Review: Frances Ferdinands

Site Review: Frances Ferdinands

Robust Exploration and Expression By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Frances Ferdinands’s paintings are known for their richly saturated color, patterned compositions, and exploratory vision. She is inspired by nature, emotions, and events in her daily life mixed with social concerns and a strong sense of cultural identity. As…