Harpur Palate 23.2 (Fall/Winter 2025)
About our cover image: “Sour Note” by Sui Jenneris
Sui Jenneris is an artist, mother, and counselor. Her art is marked by striking visuals and joyful compositions, reflects her unique upbringing and creative journey. Raised in Kingston, NY, by a tattoo artist parent, she was immersed in punk rock culture and imaginative thinking from an early age. This background influenced her style and outlook, bringing boldness and originality to her work. She recently celebrated her first solo exhibition, a milestone in her flourishing career.
The process of putting this issue together became a pet project for my anxiety, but also felt deeply connected to the collective worry we are all feeling in the wake of events that feel very much outside of our control.
I’ve been fascinated with the idea of perception for a very long time. I am interested in the distorted ways that we perceive self, and the affected ways we understand others. This idea is mirrored throughout the issue. Whether it be Anna Smetanenko’s “After the Book” which investigates how an identity is altered and shaped by the works with which it…
Harpur Palate 23.1 (Spring/Summer 2024)
About our cover image: “President’s Room” by Wong WanYee, Ann
Wong (b.1996) obtained a BA in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2020, and she currently lives and works in Hong Kong and Sweden.
Wong uses different media to record and reflect on trifles in life. In her works, she explores the possibilities among media by duplicating, extracting, covering or simplifying individual elements and then combining them in a specific way.
Website: https://wanyeeann.com/
Instagram: @wanyeeann
Harpur Palate 22.2 (Fall/Winter 2024)
About our cover image: “Night Fall” by Emily Rankin
Emily Rankin was born in Riverside, California and attended university in Texas, where she received a BFA in 2011. Her body of work deals with the tangles of human emotion and understanding, the intuitive messages of dreaming and subconsious exploration. Her work has appeared in such publications as Gasher, Wild Roof Journal, Meat for Tea, Black Fox, and Rattle. She is currently based in New Mexico. You can see more of her art on Instagram and Facebook, or at eerankinart.com.
From the artist: “This piece makes up part of an ongoing series, Fluid, which seeks to capture the ways in which a fluid moment in time might be fixed in the mind. Fluid art is a representation of liminal space, an echo of the moment before the paint dried. I’m interested in the way the momentary motion of liquid paint can be captured and pinned to canvas.”
Special Issue: Ecotopia (Fall 2023)
Former poetry editor Cole Depuy curates a special issue of Harpur Palate that imagines a future where crisis turns to -topia. This issue is hybrid and ekphrastic, with both visual artists and writers responding to this call, and to each others’ work.
Harpur Palate 22.1
(Spring/Summer 2023)
About our cover image:
“3150FFCB” by Cyrus Carlson
Bio: Cyrus Carlson is an abstract artist from St Paul, MN.
Harpur Palate 21.2 (Fall/Winter 2022)
About our cover image:
“La Derive” by Dréa
Dréa was born in 1986 and lives in Vieux-Rosemont neighbourhood in Montréal City. Her academic career vacillates between the Arts and Archives. The fruit of this work is a combination of these two passions. The archives are the basis of her works, her main source of inspiration. With the collage, she builds new links to make the fragments of the cut images speak.
Harpur Palate Issue 21.1 (Spring/Summer 2022)
About our cover image:
“She’s not like that.” by Martine Mooijenkind
Martine Mooijenkind is a self-taught collage artist currently situated in Gouda, The Netherlands. In addition to her profession as a care attendant for the disabled, she practices the art of collage making.
Her works are mostly surreal. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, she tries to increase the dynamice between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. Martine’s works are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand, her works can also appear idiosyncratic and quirky.
Follow Martine on twitter, instagram, or facebook to see more of her incredible art!
Issue 20.2 (Fall/Winter 2021)
About our cover image:
“Maps” by Jason R. Montgomery
Jason R. Montgomery, or JRM, is a Chicano/Indigenous Californian writer, painter, and playwright from El Centro, California. In 2016, along with Poet Alexandra Woolner, and illustrator Jen Wagner, JRM founded Attack Bear Press in Easthampton, MA. In 2019, JRM’s art was featured at CreativeArts Workshop in New Haven, CT, and his solo show Aqui Y Alla at the MapSpace Gallery in Easthampton. JRM completed graduate studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Department of Theatre and Dance with an emphasis in Playwriting and Chicano Studies in 2006. JRM’s work for the Coalescence show at Readywipe Gallery is an exploration of the cultural synthesis intrinsic to decolonization. Using found collage and construction materials, he merges Kumeyaay, Chumash, and Chicano designs and aesthetics to explore the history of US colonization, while synthesising a decolonized motif that honors the complicated heritage of the postcolonial subject.
His work can be found at: www.attackbearpress.com
Double Issue 19.2 / 20.1 (2020)
Harpur Palate‘s first online issue
About our cover image: “Afternoon of the Faun, Claude Debussy” by Zahava Lupu
Zahava Lupu is a modern abstract and mixed media artist who lives in Israel. A graduate of The Academy of Music, Tel Aviv, and the Avni Institute of Art, Tel Aviv. Lupu is renowned for her large-size original abstract oil paintings, and her artwork can be found among many famous private and public collections worldwide.