Rodrigo Valenzuela, who was born in Chile, lives and works in Los Angeles, where he is an assistant professor and head of the photography department at the University California, Los Angeles. Valenzuela works across photography, video, and installation, merging his interest in art history, architecture, the concept of work, and the realities of laborers. He…
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Collage: One Artist’s Answer to Writers Block
Kim Triedman is a practicing visual artist and an award-winning poet and novelist living in Arlington, MA. She works primarily in collage and mixed media and often uses her own photography in her pieces. Much of her work focuses on issues of gender expectations, historical perceptions of femininity and sexuality, and the weight and challenge…

Photocollage as Painting
Amy Ragus is a photocollage/mixed media artist who considers herself a painter who uses photo fragments as brushstrokes on a larger field. Her work in photocollage has been exhibited in one-person and group exhibits in the US and abroad. She was a founding partner of Fine Arts Express, Inc. and an assistant professor of Art…

The Art of Non-Measured Geometry
Tom Martinelli was born in New York City. His artwork has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, as well as internationally in Vienna, Austria, London, and Manchester, England. Martinelli, who now lives in New Mexico, has been a recipient of…

Reimagined Architecture
Nikola Olic is a Serbian photographer living and working in Dallas, Texas, who focuses on architectural photography and abstract structural quotes that reimagine their subjects in dimensionless and disorienting ways. His photography has appeared in various galleries, art events, museums, magazines, newspapers, spaces, and websites around the world, including Wired.com, BBC News, The Guardian, Yahoo.com,…

Sherry Karver
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Sherry Karver has had over twenty-five solo exhibitions including at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA; The Morris Graves Museum, Eureka,…

Aerial Photography as Fine Art
Website Review: Matya Shick By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, and the people you have loved.” Matya Shick’s website, www.tutishick.com, opens with this quote…

Photography Simplified
In January 2017, John Greiner-Ferris returned to being a photographer after a ten-year hiatus in theater. That winter, Greiner-Ferris was working on a play at a residency in Vermont when he picked up a camera and resumed where he’d left off. After all, many years earlier he’d worked as a corporate and freelance photographer and…

Liz Nielsen
Painting with Light Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Liz Nielsen is a Brooklyn-based artist whose works have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Paris, London, Budapest, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Her photographs are printed in the analog color darkroom, with handmade negatives and found light sources. They range in size from 100-by-100-inches to 8-by-8-inches.…

George Fellner: Photographer and Architect
Imaginary Realms: Crystal Photography Video by The Voice of Art Gallery & Studio George Fellner is committed to a dual life-path involving visual discovery and design, relating to both the natural and built environments. Inspired by his travels as well as his in-depth involvement with photo essays, George’s photographic subjects include landscape, architecture, travel, portrait, and…

Amy Kanka Valadarsky
Experiments in Fine Art Photography Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Kanka Valadarsky is a photographer based in Even Yehuda, Israel. She was born in 1964 in Romania, where she spent the first eight years of her life before moving to Israel with her family. After graduating as a software engineer, she worked…