Image Caption: Ellamarie Woolley, No End, 1970,
enamel on copper, Everson Museum of Art; Purchase Prize given by Thomas C. Thompson Company, 26th Ceramic National, 1970, 70.34
(Works from the 1970s stand next to works from two decades earlier; casein and graphite on paper flanks
enamel on copper.)
Vitreous
enamel on copper as a medium for wall work was introduced a few years later and is now central to her practice along with painting.
Robert Rauschenberg Port Holes (Copperhead), 1989 acrylic and
enamel on copper with brass frame 36 3/4 x 49 inches
Not exact matches
In the red and
on the hot seat 2014 extruded and fabricated
copper with
enamel paint, wood, wood putty, papier mâché, Japanese paper, steel wire, acqua resin, acrylic and oil paint 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
Some of those I'd been most drawn to appeared reduced, hardened and flattened, a little too obvious: the 1973 expanse of white Enamelac
on an aluminium base that shows in a thin line down the left - hand side and along the bottom; a row of square pieces from the same year, their fat L - shapes of black (oxidised
copper, apparently) set off by smaller white baked -
enamel squares; and 1985's Catalyst III, with its steel bolts and thin, intermittent lines of black
enamel seeming to divide the aluminium base and contain it in a pointedly incomplete frame.
Acrylic and graphite with found remnants, thread, hyde glue, glass,
copper bbs,
enamel, brass cotter pins, and found plastic
on folder and antique parlour portrait.
Untitled, 1972, is a large floor - based work consisting of an open - topped, almost square box with sides made from
copper and an aluminum base that is
enameled on the inside in cadmium red.
The paintings represent a striking variety of surfaces and materials including oil
on canvas, pastel graphite and charcoal
on paper, vinyl polymer paint
on aluminum, double - baked porcelain
enamel on oxidized
copper panels, and ink
on glassine, to name some.
From the press release: James Siena's new work, completed in 2006 and 2007, includes approximately 20
enamel paintings
on aluminum or
copper and 60 works
on paper created with mixed media, including ink, graphite, gouache, color pencil, and Conté crayon
on paper or board.
BEATRIZ MILHAZES Mariola Aluminum, brass,
copper, acrylic, hand - painted
enamel on aluminum, polyester and paper flowers, foiled paper, woodblock, screenprint 89 x 42 x 32 in.
BEATRIZ MILHAZES Marola Aluminum, brass,
copper, acrylic, hand - painted
enamel on aluminum, stainless steel, polyester flowers 100 x 72 x 56 in.