Patty Wickman is a painter who creates haunting scenes—and we mean haunting in the old-fashioned sense: suffused with awe and transcendent mystery. She combines pictorial realism with two related concerns: close observation of human psychology and an abiding sense that psychology must be complemented by something else, something that can only be called spirituality. According…

Bill Viola is considered by many to be the leading video artist working today. To find out more about Bill Viola, read David Morgan’s article from Image #26. Whoever is not a lover sees in the water his own image. –Rumi Current Projects January 2002 Bill Viola’s video installations have appeared at the Museum of Modern…

We can’t really tell you what Roger Feldman’s sculpture is like, and pictures won’t help you much either, because to understand his work you need to walk on it, but his room-sized sculptures are so strange and profound that we decided to feature him in our two-dimensional format anyway. Roger’s pieces are much more than…

William Dyrness is a scholar—there’s no doubt about that. But his studies and publications have always been about the dramatic encounter between faith and human culture. In short, his scholarship is relevant to practicing artists because he cares about concrete, down-to-earth issues and approaches his work from an incarnational perspective. His 1971 book on the…

Edward Knippers is, without a doubt, one of the founding fathers of contemporary efforts to explore the relationship between Christian faith and the creation of outstanding new visual art. He has given generously of his time as speaker and panelist at innumerable conferences and arts festivals. He’s taught at Image‘s Glen Workshop. He’s also been…

Bruce Herman is living proof that not all visual artists have a hard time with words! As a teacher, gallery director, and leading figure in the organization Christians in the Visual Arts, Herman brings an invigorating intellectual energy and articulateness to all his projects. One of our finest painters of the human figure, Herman always…

In Roger Wagner’s work, several strands merge: the Renaissance, the pastoral, English landscape and poetry, and Christian biblical meditation. Wagner’s paintings, for all their vigor of composition, often possess that sense of stillness at the center of the storm, that idea of hope in the face of despair. Wagner is not afraid to grapple with…

Wayle L. Roosa wrote about Mary McCleary’s work in Image issue 23 in his cover article entitled “A Fullness of Vision: Mary McCleary’s Collages.” Professor Roosa begins his article saying, “There is a fullness of vision in Mary McCleary’s art. It is a particular and peculiar kind of fullness, one that is engorged with the fecundity of…

Lynn Aldrich received her B.A. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and her M.F.A. at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. From 1987-1998 she was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her artwork is part…