Writer Laurencia Ciprus captures that elusive fuel propelling champions + change-makers; movements, musicians+museums, plus the muti-disciplined creatives who chronicle the human condition in paint, paper or film. Ciprus' words ignite both public + private media with print features in Art New England, INK Publications, Hartford Magazine, ELLE Magazine
Laurencia Ciprus
Writer
NY Metropolitan Area
Writer Laurencia Ciprus captures that elusive fuel propelling champions + change-makers; movements, musicians+museums, plus the muti-disciplined creatives who chronicle the human condition in paint, paper or film. Ciprus' words ignite both public + private media with print features in Art New England, INK Publications, Hartford Magazine, ELLE Magazine
Singer-songwriter Sarah Dunn sums up the adventure in her single "Ghost of You" on her soon to be released CD.
"I’m looking for a picture by Robert Zott
Showing me the gravestone of what's all my fault
I’m walking through, the cold, the ghost of you..."
Topographic maps of galaxies and atolls span queues of white worktables. The sea of studio space is impeccably organized – the explosion of color corralled in tantalizing bite sized elements according to value. The volume of these handmade required for each piece is stunning. Think of breaking open handblown Venetian paperweights and placing thousands of the multicolored glass beads...
“I am a ‘Plastician’. I take objects we treat as disposable, meaningless, and insignificant and use them to create art with an environmental message.My artwork is 99% comprised of plastics retrieved from oceans, beaches; street and dumpster debris."
His layered canvases translate Afro-Latin jazz while revealing the darkest corners of human experience. Soul Eyes For The Unmarked Graves from The Unmarked Graves Series, 2012, mixed media, 28 x 36". John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Jackie McLean; Lady Day and Dexter Gordon collectively leap from the walls with an expression of cool.
Founder of Hartford's Ebony Horsewomen; 2014 CNN Hero’s Award Winner, and inductee into Houston’s Cowgirl Hall of Fame, Patricia Kelly transforms lives one hoofbeat at a time...
Monica Little – a fierce Kentucky mom and Steel Magnolia – marks her daughter Trinity Lazo’s 10th anniversary with her donor heart. Monica’s story about Trinity’s remarkable and poignant journey is timely for the February issue of INK.
“Sentiments like love and sympathy and hopes for improved health have been ex- pressed by the giving of bouquets and floral arrangements throughout time. A still life can contain a veiled sentiment though the device of allegory.”
“You’re building a racetrack?”. Spring 1955: Jim Vaill borrowed an MG-TC and ran it hard through the gravel pit on the family spread in Lakeville, CT. Drivers converged on the place with everything from MG’s to Astons – dying for a place to push the limits. With an aerial survey as roadmap and a fleet of their own heavy equipment, Vaill and father Frank changed the topography of the parcel and bypassed a river flow to carve out an epic 1.5-mile track.
Exploring the career of illustrious Illustrator Wendell Minor confirms him a different brand of American icon – rendering his impressions with a steady and purposeful hand; kindness and intimacy.