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Traveling Home: watercolors by Mattina Blue

Mattina Blue

watercolor (detail)- Mattina Blue

"Traveling Home" is a series of floating, totem-like forms, which emerged in the process of painting as if excavated from deep in my subconscious. They're moving with the waves, currents and … [Read more...]

All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Fighting Chance (detail) - LIta Kenyon

Painting With abstract painting I'm interested in a process which operates within a personal narrative in concert with the unexpected. I paint, remove paint and repaint striving to bring forward … [Read more...]

toriot: text art by paul hawkins

Paul Hawkins

toriot 14 (detail - paul hawkins

"Sometimes people say: 'What the fuck do you think you're doing? That's not art.' I say: 'Fuck off, assholes!'" -- Martin Creed … [Read more...]

The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke

Jean Marie Carey

Figs.03: Franz Marc, Caliban, 1914. (Figure for Shakespeare’s „Der Sturm“. Tempera, 46 x 39.5 cm.) Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Switzerland.

Introduction This article discusses Franz Marc’s 1914 essay “Das abstrakte Theater”1 (Fig. 01), and the events surrounding an “Expressionist” production of Shakespeare’s Der Sturm planned by Marc … [Read more...]

4 paintings by Moses Hawk

Moses Hawk

Charleston (detail) - Moses Hawk painting

On the Road Stripped down bare. Art is an expression of the artist’s personality which could be a representation of their emotions, motivations, and intentions. Channeling the void, opening the … [Read more...]

All-art issue: in memory of Eileen Enck

Denise Enck

geranium 2

This special all-art issue is dedicated to the memory of my late mother-in-law, Eileen Enck. Born in January, she owned the Eileen Enck Gallery in Bellevue, Washington where she featured the work of … [Read more...]

Death to the Rebirth!

Jason Stoneking

Jason Stoneking - Death to the Rebirth

A couple of years ago, Leslie and I finally had our first chance to visit Rome. A friend of ours knew somebody down there who was nice enough to let us house-sit for nine days while she was out of … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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