JUNE 2019:
"Celebrating the Men in Our Lives"

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FEATURED ARTISTS:

Sanctuary is featuring the following male artists
for this annual, special issue:
John Manno
Bruce Murphy
Paul Petersen
Please click on their photos to view their work.

We asked each artist the following question:

How has your work changed
​over the course of your career?

FEATURED INTERVIEW:

Irwin Redlener, M.D.
Irwin is the co-founder of Children's Health Fund (CHF), a nonprofit organization that delivers high-quality, comprehensive healthcare to children in some of the most impoverished and underserved
​communities in the country. 

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John Manno:
Photographer based in New York
(Click image to view artist's page)

"For most of my life, I was interested in interpreting real things and real situations. Far from documenting what I saw, I would photograph what was unique and special in the world around me. Even still life images were handled in a way that made the viewer look at them differently. They were all real things that existed in the real world – those I found visually exciting.

My entire visual paradigm seemed to change overnight. I decided to revisit a previous experiment and build a diorama from photographs with the intention of building my own reality. This first piece was of a room filled with clocks, and it worked so well that I just had to continue building these imaginary spaces, which I eventually decided to call Misbegotten Places. Admittedly, this series is part photography and part something else, but as it is lens-based, I still consider myself a working photographer."

Bruce Murphy:
Painter from New York
(Click image to view artist's page)

"After ten years of trial and error in the application and manipulation of enamel spray paints, I am still learning. The theme of my work has always been Nature’s random effects and color combinations, even though the majority of my paintings are of an abstract nature. This visual theme allows each person to form their own view of my artistic world.

​I paint to fulfill a universal creative drive, and in doing so, I hope that my creative pleasure will inspire the viewers as much as myself."

Paul Petersen:
Artist from Pennsylvania
(Click image to view artist's page)

"When I started working with this technique in 2015, most of my art was concentric and symmetric, similar to a kaleidoscope, emanating from the center. Gradually, the compositions changed to asymmetry, which I now find more persistently interesting. And since the 3D spheres I use are made up of triangular facets, much of my early work featured those shapes. Now, I often map textures or patterns to the facets, to expand the possibilities.
 
There are all sorts of polyhedral shapes to explore, and early on, I jumped from one complex hexagon to another. I discovered many dynamic images. But then I thought I should apply a more systematic approach and work from the simple to the more complex shapes. I started with the simplest type of polyhedron, the tetrahedron, which looks like a three-sided pyramid. It turned out that the fewer facets a polyhedral shape has, the more inventive and successful I have become at finding interesting compositions inside it!"