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March’s Featured Artist, Claire Sherman
February’s Featured Artist, Annie Lapin
January’s Featured Artist, Matthew Penkala
December’s Featured Artist, Jared Joslin
November’s Featured Artist, Tom Berenz
October’s Featured Artist, John Aquilino
September’s Featured Artist, Gregory Thielker
August’s Featured Artist, Ali Cavanaugh
July’s Featured Artist, Virginia Derryberry
June’s Featured Artist, Rachel Sitkin
May’s Featured Artist, John Hartley
April’s Featured Artist, Alexis Duque
March’s Featured Artist, Tommy Fitzpatrick
February’s Featured Artist, Nathan Abels
January’s Featured Artist, Dan McCarthy & Kate Bright
December’s Featured Artist, Amy Casey
November’s Featured Artist, Justin Allen
October’s Featured Artist, Corrine Colarusso
September’s Featured Artist, Pang-Chieh Hsu
August’s Featured Artist, Matt Klos
July’s Featured Artist, Zachary Thornton
June’s Featured Artist, Yoon Lee
May’s Featured Artist, Nancy Drew
April’s Featured Artist, Ben Weiner
March’s Featured Artist, Kevin Bell
February’s Featured Artist, Mark Shetabi
January’s Featured Artist, Elisa Johns
December’s Featured Artist, Ann Marie Nafziger
November’s Featured Artist, Laura Sanders
October’s Featured Artist, Jared Joslin
September’s Featured Artist, Ryan Kapp
August’s Featured Artist, Paul Paddock
July’s featured artist, Soren Waast
June’s featured artist was Cecelia Phillips
GRL’s May issue features the work of Andy Ducett
April’s Featured Artist was Anna Conway
I think the September art choice by Pang-Chieh Hsu is breath-taking. I really love the feeling it gives me. Thanks.
I have no idea how Daniel Casey does it. Month after month he selects first-rate artwork for Gently Read Literature. I’m not sure whether, strictly speaking, he exhibits “catholicity of taste”; in his choices he tends to favor such “realistic” artists as Matt Klos, Zachary Thornton, Mark Shetabi, Laura Sanders, Jared Joslin and Ryan Kapp. Each of these artists produces work that is moody, sometimes stiflingly so, and mysterious—perhaps a reflection of Casey himself being one of the more inscrutable personae on the current literary scene. Danger, or else a subtle sense of unease, often appears to lurk behind the serene facades of work by Casey’s featured realistic artists.
When he chooses more abstract or expressionist artwork, as in the case of Yoon Lee, Nancy Drew and Ben Weiner, Casey’s selections also seem right on target. A for-instance: Yoon Lee’s acrylics are wild, whirling versions of what could be Los Angeles freeways. They hit an emotional nerve, especially in the hyped-up, digitized century I’m learning to inhabit.
Ever since I became aware of Gently Read Literature last spring, I’ve marveled over it, not least because of its visual art. Maybe somebody out there knows the secret of Daniel Casey’s ferreting through the lion’s den of art galleries to come up with roaring good work. If so, maybe that somebody could inform this poor alley cat, me!