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Transpositions is the official blog of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. Featured Posts
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Featured Artist: Jonathan Anderson
Posted on 28/10/2011 | No CommentsJonathan Anderson was born in 1977 in Denver, Colorado and currently lives and works in Long Beach, California. He holds an MFA in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach, and he is Assistant Professor of Art at... -
Featured Artist: Alfonse Borysewicz
Posted on 24/07/2011 | No CommentsAlfonse Borysewicz was born in Detroit in 1957. According to his website, Borysewicz has “engaged in seminary studies,” and he also has a degree from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston. Borysewicz is the recipient of several awards... -
Featured Artist: Matt Ballou
Posted on 19/06/2011 | 1 CommentMatt is a painter originally from New York, but now living in Missouri where he holds a position as Assistant Teaching Professor of Painting and Drawing position at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He received a BFA from the... -
Featured Artist: Julie Cockburn
Posted on 10/04/2011 | 2 CommentsI stumbled across London-based Julie Cockburn’s “photography” the other day, and I found myself spellbound. There is something about her images that is deeply mysterious, haunting and utterly intriguing. Many of Cockburn’s images are manipulated, found photographs. Nearly all of... -
Featured Artist: Anne-Laure Djaballah
Posted on 13/02/2011 | 2 CommentsAnne Laure Djaballah (here is her website) is a contemporary artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. Much of her work might be described vaguely as ‘abstract painting,’ although she also produces interesting box-and-wire installations and her paintings do not... -
Featured Artist: Robert MacMillan
Posted on 02/01/2011 | 3 CommentsRobert MacMillan is a contemporary Scottish artist who is well known for his landscape and figure painting (primarily portraits). Thematically, much of his work explores the relationship between light and dark, clarity and obfuscation. His clean and crisp technique is... -
Featured Artist: Makoto Fujimura
Posted on 31/10/2010 | 1 CommentComparisons between Makoto Fujimura’s art and Japanese haiku poetry seem inevitable and appropriate. Of the haiku tradition, one scholar writes, So the poet presents an observation of a natural, often commonplace event, in plainest diction, without verbal trickery. The effect...
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