Working with his familiar vocabulary of collaged images combined with unexpected surfaces and found objects, the artist developed a technique for applying a silkscreened
encaustic image to the polished metal surfaces of these works by forcing hot, brightly colored wax through a metal screen.
Not exact matches
The resulting
image is printed using archival inks and paper, mounted onto a wood panel and becomes the base for an
encaustic painting.
The translucent quality of
encaustic directly applied to the surface augments whatever atmospheric condition the
image holds.
Curated by Gower, «Heated Exchange» features works by nine artists who use distinct approaches to the seductive surface, luminous color and ethereal
image - layering unique to the
encaustic medium.
The
images are then painted and heavily saturated with
encaustic wax.
While Lawrence employed photography and illusionistic devices in his constructions, Gauthier incorporates photographic enlargements of installations in her mixed - media works, combining these
images with
encaustic and graphite on wood.
The painting was a readable
image of a bull's - eye, with a choppy,
encaustic surface that here and there revealed legible bits of newsprint and waxy tears, the accidental drips so cherished by abstract expressionists.
The New York Center for Photographic Arts (NYC4PA) invites photographers world - wide to submit
images using any photographic process (print,
image transfer, emulsion transfer,
encaustic, black and white, color etc.).
Sage Gallery in Portland, OR and PhotoEncaustic.com are now calling on photographers to submit
images for consideration to the 2016 National Juried Photo
Encaustic Exhibition.
Joanne Mattera was researching artwork for her seminal text, The Art of
Encaustic Painting, Watson - Guptill, 2001, for which she made use of R&F's growing
image library.