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Micro Gallery

Objects of Contemplation

April 20, 2026April 25, 2026 Vanessa Able

Loretta Staples' series of artworks created at a Zen center are filled with mysterious resonance and connection.

Tagged art, connection, contemplation, drawing, meaning, Meditation, painting, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Matthew Kohut – Rothko Chapel

June 8, 2025June 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Matthew Kohut allows readers to contemplate the contrast of darkness and light in the powerful minimalism of his poem "Rothko Chapel".

Tagged art, contrast, Darkness, juxtaposition, Light, light and dark, Mark Rothko, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, Rothko Chapel, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

David Capps – Tree (after Rothko, but not)

October 27, 2024October 25, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

At play with immersion, vastness, and solitude, David Capps' "Tree (after Rothko, but not)" is a work inviting readers to explore emptiness.

Tagged art, artist, Emptiness, immersion, Mark Rothko, Poem, poet, Poetry, solitary, Solitude, tree, vastnessLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Weekly Haiku

August 29, 2024September 24, 2024 Vanessa Able

Our weekly haiku offering explores the spiritual relationship between Zen and art and is open to all haiku poets.

Tagged art, Haiku, kensho, kigo, nature, Poem, Poetry, Practice, seasons, submissions, ZenLeave a comment
All About Love

Tabletop Portraits and a Lifetime Together

August 22, 2024August 20, 2024 Trent Thomson

From magical to mundane; art, beauty, and time shared. BY HOPE NISLY

Tagged art, Bay Area, beauty, berkeley, community, love, magic, marriage, memory, relationship, time1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Kit Evans – When We Go to That Museum You Liked

March 27, 2022March 24, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Like the all-encompassing color field paintings of Mark Rothko mentioned in Kit Evans' poem, this little piece commands our attention, while also leaving things unsaid.

Tagged art, artwork, healing, innocence, loss, love, parenthood, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Owen Brown – Emerging

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 Vanessa Able

Owen Brown's paintings slide between representation and abstraction as he explores everything from the snow shades of Minnesota winters to his son's cancer treatment.

Tagged art, snow, whitenessLeave a comment
Nancy Holt
Artworks

Nancy Holt’s Mystifying Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert

August 20, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert in Utah are four 18-foot long concrete tubes arranged in an X-formation and aligned with the movements of the sun.

Tagged art, ecology, environment, land art, landscape, nature, women in artLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Jeff Mann – Emerging

August 17, 2021August 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

Jeff Mann's sculptures and images of collages made from car parts go hand in hand with his passion for transport activism.

Tagged art, cars, collage, digital, industrial, mechanical, portraits, recycling, sculpture, tribal1 Comment
Dane Lyn
Featured Poetry

Dane Lyn – holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Dane Lyn's "holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019" is a brilliant work of ekphrastic poetry, inspired by a religious painting by an unknown artist, titled "The Great Harlot of Babylon".

Tagged art, artwork, ekphrastic, faith, hypocrisy, Judgement, misogyny, painting, religion, religious art, Women1 Comment

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