Winter 2017 Highlights By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. On a particularly cold but bright blue-sky February day, I walked…
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Art Roundup: Boston
Winter 2017 Highlights By Marni Elyse Katz Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. It’s winter in Boston. I can’t say I’ve been crisscrossing the city daily…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
September 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Arts Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Harold Garde As we age and the people who inspired, taught, and befriended us pass, it is always a joy to be able to remark on a…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 2
Gesture, Craft, and Capitalism by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor I couldn’t help myself. I had to see the Whitney Biennial a second time, circling through the galleries until I was a bit dizzy with all the color and sound. I was partially enticed by the promise of a lens into the most contemporary of art—a…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 1
The Time for Nuance is Over? by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Walking into the first floor of the Whitney Biennial, one is immediately accosted by what can only be described as the cacophony of 2016–2017. The first step off the elevator lands you in front of Dana Schutz’s “Elevator,” a bright jumble of bodies and bugs…
Site Review: Pen + Brush
Achieving Gender Parity Through the Arts by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Founded in 1894 by Janet and Mary Lewis, Pen + Brush has been at the forefront of gender parity in the arts for over 120 years. In its current incarnation as a gallery in the Flatiron District of New York City, Pen + Brush…
Video: Against Self-Sabotage
Performance with Charcoal By Brianna Baurichter See her work in WTP Vol. V #4 “Against Self-Sabotage” is a three-part performance utilizing drawing and dance. Part one consists of covering a space in charcoal. Part two, titled Commune (Intermission), invites viewers to join me in whittling down charcoal to be added to a bowl of water. Part…
WTP Artist: Susan Malmstrom
The Deserted Toy Shop Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Susan Malmstrom attended California State University, Long Beach, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Printmaking. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine. Since 2011, she has been installing…
Exhibition Review: Invented Landscapes
Surreal Visions of the Natural World By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Initially, Tula Telfair’s sweeping landscape compositions in her Invented Landscapes series may remind you of the large panoramic vistas of nineteenth-century Hudson River School painters, such as Thomas Cole or Frederic Edwin Church. All have similar attention paid to rendering natural splendor in great detail. However, Telfair’s…
Free Online Portfolios for Visual Artists
Marketing Your Work by Shawn McNulty Shawn McNulty is a contemporary visual artist from Minneapolis, MN, whose work can be found in public and private collections all over the world. There are several high-traffic websites that allow artists to upload work and maintain a free portfolio. As an artist, it’s in your best interest to…
my lies have titles
Video Poetry — Donna Kuhn For our third National Poetry Month 2016 feature, we offer the video poetry of Donna Kuhn. video poetry by Donna Kuhn >> my lies have titles << She told The Woven Tale how she came to create what we are calling her “video poetry”: [dropcap color=”#034582″]I [/dropcap]was making very strange…
Video, Digital, Analogue, Performance, Textile—LoVid's Collaborative Art
Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, the collaborative LoVid, do everything from paper and textile to performance and video. Their art intersects with technologies and human cultures. What emerges defies easy categories: interdisciplinary, multi-media, cyborg-art. Call it what you will, it provokes plenty of thought. Read more in this interview, Between Digital and Analogue / Man…