Recent Interviews and Publications

INTERVIEW.  Spotlight interview with Rachel Johanningsmier for Tri State Sculptors.  May 2023.  Instagram and Facebook.  www.facebook.com/groups/tristatesculptors/posts


DOUBLE MONOLOGUES VARIATION I & II, QUARTET VARIATION III & IV, QUARTET II (Variation II) from the Black & White Series, acrylic on canvas selected for publication in the international literary and arts journal, Stillpoint Arts Quarterly, Spring 2023, 'Minimalist Wisdom', Issue No 49, ISBN 978-1-956056-77-8, print edition, pp 122-123. 20 artists selected for this issue.


CERAMICS.  Foreword by Garth Clark, historian, writer, art dealer.  Documents over 900 functional to cutting edge sculpture produced by artists all over world from the Permanent Collection of San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; one of the most extensive collections of contemporary clay work in the US.  Double Monologues: The Celia Series, stoneware sculpture, p. 190.  This artwork received First Place in the 3rd Annual Monarch Ceramic Competition open to artists in North America at the museum.  Museum Purchase by SAMFA's Collector's Society (see Critical Reviews section).  ISBN 978-0-615-38003-2 (Canada), 2021, 215 pp, hardcover.


SENTINELS VARIATION  I, II, II paper, sandpaper, felt, linen, ink copper, wood, wire plastic tripych one of 30 works published in the international literary and arts journal Stillpoint Arts Quarterly, Spring 2022, Mixing Mediums Issue No. 45. ISBN 978-1-956056-31-0 print. https://indd/adobe.com/view/b9f8d6c7-0824-44ba-901c-8adc3117f7bc.  pp. 11, 27, 43. This artwork was also included in the Survey Exhibition at the Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery in Nashville in 2020.


INTERVIEW.  With ArtWeb November 2021.  https://fusionartps.com/loretta-ana-kaufman-interviewed-by-artweb/


LIGHTNESS OF BEING (Soaring Above the Fray) Series M.  Acrylic diptych was published in the international literary and arts journal Still Point Arts Quarterly, Summer Issue 2021, No. 42, pp. 9, 13, 15, 34, Art of Isolation,   ISBN 978-1-951-88.  24 artists selected for publication in the June 2021 issue.  https://indd.adobe.com/view/3da49492-bc60-4b20-a937-3f158f5db18fl .This painting is also included in the National Association of Artists Exhibition at the New York Public Library (SoHo) January 5 - March 31, 2022, and received an Honorable Mention Award in the exhibition .Also selected for the Summer Issue Sequestered  (Winter 2020-2021) and included in the exhibition Art of Isolation June 1 - August 30, 2021,  part of the National Association of Women Artists Exhibition Cold II, January-March, 2021.


REVIEW.   Review of one-person retrospective Loretta Ana Kaufman:  A Curated Survey 1988-2018,  Tennesee Arts Commission Gallery, Tennesse Arts Commission, Nashville TN. February 7 - April 3, 2020. Work included 18 paintings, works on paper, collage, sculpture. Review by Krishna Adams, Director of Visual Arts, Craft, Media & Design.


INTERVIEW.  Medal of Honor Award for sculpture interview in the National Association of Women Artists 131st  Annual Members' Exhibition, New York, NY October - December 2020. At  https://thenawa.org/fall-2020-newsletter/kaufman in the NAWA Now Magazine/Newsletter Fall 2020.


LOVEBIRDS (MLJET):  SERIES HR. The oil on canvas was published in the international literary and arts journal Still Point Arts Quarterly, Summer Issue No. 38,  pp.15, 17, 34, ISBN 978-1-951651-18-3, June 1, 2020, https://www.shantiarts.co/landing_SPAQ.html  The painting is one of 37 works selected from Still Point Art Gallery's exhibition Making A Mark,  Three of A Kind: Series HR also included in the exhibition. June 1 - August 30, 2020. https://stillpointartgallery.com

The painting is also included in the National Association of Women Artists Exhibition Oil & Acrylic Painting (Texture & Surface) June 5, 2020.  Online at www.thenawa.org


ANIMATED FORMS VI (THE INNER CORE I):  CIRCLE OF LIFE SERIES. The acrylic painting was published on the cover of the February 2019 issue of  Highbrow Magazine, Washington, DC, and reviewed by Sandra Bertrand, Chief Art Critic, Highbrow Magazine. The painting won an Honorable Mention award in Fusion Art's international exhibition Lines, Shapes & Objects in 2019.  The exhibition was open to all 2D and 3D media and entries were received from 12 countries.

The work was one of 56 in the National Association of Women Artists Exhibition Transparency at  the Monroe Gallery, The Arts Club of Washington, DC, and curated by Dr. Erich Keel former head of Education at the Keeger Museum in Washington.  The theme was explored in any medium that can be viewed visually (opacity, ethereal, historically and/or socially openness and accountability) by juried NAWA members nationwide.


THREE OF A KIND:  SERIES HR has been selected for inclusion in award winning poet, Peter Waldor's  limited edition, coffee table book of poetry "Gate Posts with No Gate:  The Leg Paint Project", pp.96, 108, ISBN 978-1-947067-15-8. This ground-breaking book carries an endorsement from Sean Hemingway.  Readings and exhibitions throughout the US, Canada and Europe are planned around a mid 2018 release date.

The  11" x 14" canvas is part of a series of oil on canvas, oil and canvas board and oil on canvas paper.  All the work was done with a pallet knife in black, rust, whites and greys.  Some were executed wet on wet and others, like "Three of a Kind",  were done with each layer dry before the next one was applied.   The paintings from HR series have been exhibited in a three person show at the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission Gallery, in a one person exhibition at Nashville Jazz Workshop, both in Tennessee and in Still Point Art Gallery's Making A Mark.


DEAD ZONE I:  ENVIRONMENT SERIES was one of 30 works  selected from entries world wide in all media except video and wearable art in STILL POINT IX. The triptych is published in the literary and arts journal, Still Point Arts Quarterly, ISBN 978-1-947067-00-4,  Summer 2017, Issue No. 26, p. 32.  The triptych was was also included in Waterscapes, Fusion Art exhibition in 2016 open to all 2D media worldwide.

The Dead Zone series of 7 acrylic canvases were inspired by media reports of agricultural and industrial runoffs occurring in deltas, estuaries, lakes, rivers, and oceans worldwide.  Add in climate change acidifying and warming the waters. The end results are low oxygen levels that lead to reproduction problems in sea life, a reduction of the population of large fish and suffocation of marine life. There may be a light at the end of the tunnel.  Scientists have stated that dead zones due to human activity are reversible if their causes are reduced or eliminated.  Surely a challenge and an uphill battle.


SERE DECONSTRUCTED II:  Environment Series published in Exquisite Arts Magazine's (Canada), Issue 7, p.17, 2017.  The painting received an Honorable Mention award in International-Gallery's 2nd Annual Painter's competition. Work eligible from worldwide entries where paint is the primary medium.  This canvas was one of 48 works selected from 1,900 entries in First Street Gallery 2018 National Exhibition in New York, NY, open to work in any medium and the 37th Annual Faber Birren National Color  Award Exhibition in 2017 at Townhouse Gallery, Stamford Art Association, CT, and was one of 36 works selected from 400 entries and open to all 2D media.

Depletion of the ozone layer, polar ice melt, bleaching of coral reefs and extreme weather shifts are the end result, and only part of the consequences of the accelerated rate of heating the planet.  The impact of these significant global events inspired the seres in the Circle of Life Series.

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