Velma J. Morris Artist Still Working at 77
“I love what I do,” said Velma J. Morris, an artist who paints with acrylics, and who continues to paint and exhibit her work at age 77. “It affords me the opportunity to meet interesting people.” At four and a half, she drew on every sheet of paper she could find. She even drew in […]
Echo Lew’s New Works Reflect a Life Based in Aesthetics as Much as Utility
After working with traditional mediums for nearly twenty-eight years, Los Angeles based artist Echo Lew grew curious about the effects of light in motion and began experimenting with photography. Not only did this investigation lead him “to spontaneously tap into decades of drawing experience while the camera’s shutter was open,” as conveyed by Lew himself, but it […]
Le Palais Bulles
Over the past several weeks, luxury brands have traveled from one end of the world to another, showcasing the new batch of cruise collections. Cruise or resort wear were originally created to give jet-set luxury customers pieces they could wear on their warm weather holidays abroad. But with the ever-increasing need for new product, luxury […]
Sonja Schenk Reinterprets Landscape in “Hovenweep”
It makes sense that Sonja Schenk’s latest body of work provides a perspective that only a few would even consider. Absent of a horizon line, the improvised landscapes that comprise Schenk’s solo exhibition, Hovenweep,provide an elevated point of view that few rarely if ever have the opportunity to glimpse. The Los Angeles based artist’s newest […]
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD
I. Images For A Better World: Ellen Jean PRICE, Visual Artist Ellen Jean Price was born in New York City and grew up in Queens. She studied life drawing at the Art Students League and enrolled in Hunter College before completing her BA in Art at Brooklyn College. She then went on to earn an […]
Director Sees Upside to (Relatively) Young Springfield Museum of Art
While many large American arts institutions, such as Cincinnati Music Hall and the Cincinnati Art Museum, were founded in the 19th century, it wasn’t until just before and after World War II when such cultural institutions were planted in many smaller cities, like Springfield, Ohio. For so young an institution, the Springfield Museum of Art […]
Poems by Huck Fairman
City Of Brotherly Love Blocks of reddish brownstones and brownish red blocks measure flat black streets and white walks where sooted particles, urban eddies of them, sweep the ankles of wrapped figures hustling between doors. Doors facing streets carrying faces pacing paved squares connecting thoroughfares that vanish in neighborhoods of vacant stares. […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Framing on Liberty [the Journey of Dust] Beginning from the saw teeth, the wily bits skip pass the vents. Fine particulates floating like a plastic bag in the wind catch draft from the motors and blast into a grand journey. With no ventilation, dust rapidly drops only if no bodies […]
Book Review: After Birth by Elisa Albert
I am ongoingly impressed and reassured by the very high quality of fiction written by younger generations of writers, both American and internationally, from countries including England,Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia Afghanistan, India, amongst others. In spite of all the digital hoo haa that we hear every day, legions of younger fiction (and non-fiction) writers still […]
Book Review: Migrating Animals by Mary Helen Specht
Another splendid novel by a virtually unknown young American woman, Migratory Animals is a fine look at a group of friends who met in college, who are now in their late twenties/early thirties. The novel about college friends who hang together afterwards has become a common American trope: Jeffrey Eugenides’ excellent The Marriage Plot covers […]