The Future Present By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Initially it was Moholy-Nagy’s kinship with Calder that drew me to this Future Present exhibition, both pioneers of the kinetic sculpture movement – Calder perhaps best known for his mobiles. But Moholy-Nagy’s works do not resonate of that same playfulness, certainly not on the level of Calder’s at…
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Alex Hall: Photography
Artwork 00409-00410 Abstractions and variants including photo from USGS bee survey Pseudospinolia Neglecta This hybrid digital paint/digital photography work is derived from two sources, which I worked up and heavily modified in Photoshop and Filter Forge. One source is a USGS Bee Survey public domain photograph; click the image to open the source page for…
Michelle Hold: Studio Visit
“No-Time, No-Space, No-Body” by Michelle Hold See her work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #7 Video by Michelle Hold “My work is an exploration of the abstract, dance-like gestures, the vibrations of color and simple words. Light, movement, nature and new spirituality with scientific grounding are essential to my paintings and I am fascinated…
WTP Artist: Donald Martiny
“Brushstrokes are human, personal, and intimate.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Donald Martiny currently lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was born in Schenectady, NY, in 1953 and studied at the School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League in New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of…
Hamilton Glass
Mural Art: Graphic Graffiti Style By Janelle Rucker Did you know there are little jewels hidden in plain sight in most communities? Murals, stickers and tags on the sides of buildings, in alleys and on light poles, all with a story and a purpose. Hamilton Glass, known in art circles as Ham?, has been dropping these…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg This post I’m taking the second item from the title, Coffee. Up first is an interesting site. For over a decade, Angel Sarkela-Saur and Andrew Saur, have pioneered an art movement by creating fine art using coffee as the medium, Coffee Art®. There site is coffeeart.com and I think I’ll let the work do the…
PaletteArt™ | Lisa J Levasseur
Wheels of Change Recycled Acrylic I created PaletteArt™ because I couldn’t bear to throw away dried up old paint. It then became more of a scientific project. Basically I had to figure out how to get paint to do everything it isn’t designed to do. I can use any form of wasted paint, but it…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg This month I thought I would use the title of my blog as an index for some very interesting sites. First off there’s Art so let’s take a look at some Stolen Bacons Spanish police have made seven arrests in relation to the theft of five Francis Bacon paintings from a private home…
Two Painters in One | Rose Masterpol
Between a drawn line and a painterly stroke By Peter Frank [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n her work of the past three years, Rose Masterpol has been oscillating between a drawn line, animated by color as well as its own flagellating trail, and a more painterly stroke that provides given expanses with texture as well as hue. The drawn…
Art Spotlight: Allison B. Cooke
Allison B. Cooke discusses her paintings [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y paintings celebrate the interplay of past and present, imagined and tangible, that which is lost and what remains. I have always been drawn to the physicality of aged surfaces that reveal the endless and shifting remnants of time. The patinas that build up where mankind and the atmosphere…
Improving Style
Seven Steps for Developing Your Signature Artistic Style By Seth Apter [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e all know artists that have a signature style. When we see their work, we can immediately identify it as theirs and theirs alone. This is true for the great Masters, many well-known contemporary artists, and a host of people in our mixed media…
Yossi Waxman | Novel Excerpt
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye I Die a Little From a novel by Yossi Waxman Translated by Baruch Gefen Paintings by Yossi Waxman [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I was young, I believed there is life, real life, with awareness and understanding and love, and even hatred… I believed there is life in rocks and trees and flowers and…