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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Micro Gallery

Dave Sims – Watercolors

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Dave Sims' watercolor paintings are a submission to the chance of creation and a surrender to emptiness.

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Micro Gallery

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cynthia Ruse's The In-Between reflects the parallel and layered elements of life, where light and darkness are blurred and the narrative of a painting becomes experience in itself.

Tagged art, Darkness, Experience, layer, Light, painting, space2 Comments
Louise Gluck
Book Bits

The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art’s Restorative Power

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Louise Glück's essay condemns current trends of pathological optimism, as well as the tendency towards 'the pornography of scars.'

Tagged art, Culture, healing, loss, Optimism, pain, respite, Suffering, transformation1 Comment
Kamaiyah
Lyrics

Kamaiyah – Ten Toes High

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Vanessa Able

Oakland-born rapper and singer Kamaiyah's Ten Toes High is an affirmation of her devotion to her art and her creativity.

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Books

Smelling the Flowers in Dogen’s Gardens – Marcia Lieberman’s ‘Clean Slate’

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 Vanessa Able

Photographer Marcia Lieberman's new book, Clean Slate, is a meditation on nature and temple gardens made in the footsteps of 13th century Japanese Zen master Dogen. 

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