Website Review: Daniel Shieh By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Daniel Shieh is a young artist from Taiwan who, in a relatively short period of time, has built an impressive CV while studying and creating in the United States. On his site, danielshieh.com, you can find his early works in sculpture, and see their evolution into…
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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…
Abstract Watercolors: Unusual Compositions
Website Review: Marcie Jan Bronstein By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor The opening page of Marcie Jan Bronstein’s website, marciejbronstein.com, grabbed my attention with an atypical composition that quietly dominates the page. I found it atypical in that we rarely see abstract watercolors, especially compositions with hard edges and irregular forms. At first glance these forms have…
Painting with Gold Leaf
A WTP Website Review By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Christine Olmstead’s early childhood benefited from having an art historian for a mother, who exposed her to many styles of painting. This early exposure to impressionism and later realism influenced her as young emerging artist, though eventually she would pursue abstraction. She states on her site,…
Raja Oshi
Paintings That Speak to Women By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Raja Oshi is a Sudanese artist now living in South Africa. Her painting is clearly inspired by her life experiences and expresses the oppression, pain, and suffering of Sudanese women. Having grown up in a male-dominated culture of limited opportunities, poverty, and violent abuse of…
Helen Cantrell
An Artist’s Journey By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor I have long been an admirer of Helen Cantrell’s gestural abstract paintings, and was delighted to be able to spend some time with her exploring her early beginnings, influences, and her recent successes. Helen knew she wanted to be an artist early in her childhood growing up…
Maya Kuvaja
Mixed Media Inspired by Magical Realism By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Inspired by the literary movement Magical Realism, Maya Kuvaja’s storytelling paintings explore the way we perceive and construct our own realities. It’s no wonder she includes in her artist statement a quote by Gabriel García Márquez: “What matters in life is not what happens…
Cindy Rinne
Fiberverse: Quilted Paintings By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor The first paragraph of Cindy Rinne’s artist statement is a quote by Josef Albers: “To experiment is at first more valuable than to produce; free play in the beginning develops courage.” For over thirty years, Cindy Rinne has embraced that philosophy in her mixed-media fiber work, by…
Joshua Field
Surreal Paintings and Works on Paper By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Joshua Field is a surrealist painter who creates dream-world narratives that entice the viewer into making emotional connections. On his website, joshuafield.com, you’ll find an impressive collection of paintings grouped by theme, followed by smaller projects and works on paper. There is a quiet meditative quality…
Sarah Nesbitt
Photography Challenging Objectivity By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Photography has long been perceived as objective visual truth. However, a photograph can alter perceptions and be just as open to misinterpretation as recorded history, and it is within this discrepancy where multimedia photographer Sarah Nesbitt finds her inspiration. For her images, she researches forgeries, memory, misattribution,…
Site Review: Jean Sbarra Jones
Dresses as Poetry and Metaphor By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Jean Sbarra Jones is an award-winning artist living and working in Salem, Massachusetts, whose series of acrylic paintings of women’s dresses has earned significant critical acclaim. On her site, she documents the painting of this dress over the period of a decade: first worn by…
Site Review: Laurie Borggreve
Innovative Use of Everyday Materials By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Laurie Borggreve is a mixed-media sculptress who delights in discovering new ways to use conventional materials. Hundreds, if not thousands, of individual components that alternate between precise assembly and fluid composition characterize the work on her website. Her ambitious compositions are informed by current events,…