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Insignia: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Raoul (detail) - Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Artist's statement: Mail Art first influenced my artistic direction. In the 80s I began creating collages using found images, rubber stamps and stickers. I also practiced graffiti, using markers, … [Read more...]

Mixed Media Paintings by Tina Garvin

Tina Garvin

Bandoleros (detail) by Tina Garvin

Artist's statement: This collection of mixed media paintings is inspired by the tension between the nature that surrounds us and our own inherent natures.These paintings are a series of … [Read more...]

Burning Factories: Art by Sander Steins

Sander Steins

Burning Factory 1 - Sander Steins

It was the summer of 1980 when I was seven years old that I sat in the back seat of my father’s blue Opel Kadett coupé and saw the first smoking chimneys of the German Ruhrgebiet. Those were the … [Read more...]

Six Mixed Media Pieces by Donna Kuhn

Donna Kuhn

donna kuhn art (detail)

I make art because that is the only way life makes sense to me. A recurrent theme in my work is the face: semi-abstract, colorful and emotional. I don't choose to draw these faces. Their forms just … [Read more...]

Meditations: Paintings by Kurt Rostek

Kurt Rostek

Renunication, Mixed media on paper, 22x32, 2006

Kurt Rostek says: education I have for the most part been self educated, with the exception of doing a visual arts diploma from Centennial College, and two years in the Fine Arts program at York … [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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