Featured Artists

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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

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October’s Featured Artist, Corrine Colarusso

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September’s Featured Artist, Pang-Chieh Hsu

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August’s Featured Artist, Matt Klos

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July’s Featured Artist, Zachary Thornton

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June’s Featured Artist, Yoon Lee

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May’s Featured Artist, Nancy Drew

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April’s Featured Artist, Ben Weiner

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March’s Featured Artist, Kevin Bell

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February’s Featured Artist, Mark Shetabi

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January’s Featured Artist, Elisa Johns

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December’s Featured Artist, Ann Marie Nafziger

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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

2 Responses to Featured Artists

  1. 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!

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