Figurative painter Archives

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Richard T. Scott Paints America’s Identity Crisis

“We become ourselves precisely when we drop the narrative, when we give up trying to construct our identity.”

Something Lost, Something New: Interview with Painter Maya Kulenovic

“This is how history unfolds, after destruction some things are forever lost, and some can be rebuilt. The result is something new, founded on the lifeline of what was before.”

The Extraordinary Time of Jay Parnell

By Deanna Selene |

We are being fed new narratives every day by the news, television, music, and movies. Most of these stories are damaging and lead to a sense of helplessness. Those stories need to be discredited, amended or re-written. I’m amending folklore.

The Life Imagined: Interview with Psychotherapist, Andrew Nargolwala

By Deanna Selene |

“Every relationship is an interaction. And a healthy relationship is an act of constant creation. That is why I always say that no one can ever know what he or she desires sexually until that individual explores the possibilities with their unique partner.”

The Lies We’re Told, The Lies We Tell Ourselves, and the Hopeful Truth

By Andrew Nargolwala, MSW, LCSW, MA |

“If only I had parented differently, if only I had been a better child, if only I had been more desirable, then the addict would never have chosen their addiction over me. The truth is that addiction is a complicated process that no other person can be responsible for, only the addict. To believe otherwise is at the heart of codependency.”
~Andrew Nargolwala, psychotherapist

David Jon Kassan: Painting a Different Kind of Beautiful

By Deanna Selene |

“When an artist says they’re searching for beauty, I believe that what the artist is truly searching for is love.”
~ David Jon Kassan

The Inexplicable Paintings of Rafel Bestard

By Deanna Selene |

The role of art is to humanize the inexplicable.

Little Deaths: Spain’s Miguel Angel Moya Paints Creatures Under Glass

By Deanna Selene |

I start with something immaterial, something mysterious that wants expression and I try to turn that into something material: a painting.

Where the Light Gets In: Slam Poetry Artist Zachary Kluckman on single parenthood, depression, and the power of art-making in community

By Deanna Selene |

Before I knew it, I was working with undocumented students, and people in recovery, activists, artists, even elected officials. All of this because I started writing poetry.