Not exact matches
Over the course of her career, Mary Frank has
worked in sculpture,
painting, drawing, printmaking and recently
encaustic and photography, suggesting that her primary loyalty is not to a particular way of
working or to any medium, but rather to the power of direct expression and to the act of creation itself.
TAG currently has nine members including artists
working in the following media:
painting,
encaustic, jewelry, and ceramics.
Brydelsky's
work aims to build upon their earlier technology of
paint and brush by incorporating multi-media elements of photography,
encaustic and collage.
Each
painting was born out of his earlier narrative
paintings that have been
worked and re-
worked into geometric compositions recording each moment with a variety of gestures and mixed materials including oil
paint,
encaustic and collage.
According to Long - Postal, the wax
encaustic technique allows her to explore her
paintings in a more tactile way by selectively scraping, incising, and scarring, which brings to the
works elements that are both solid and transparent.
Using a «found» Korean action thriller by director Kim Jee Woon, entitled A Bittersweet Life (2005), Webster
works with
paint and
encaustic wax on large and small - scale film stills (computer - generated screenshots), which have been printed onto synthetic and slippery digital canvas.
I combine these elements, using collage and assemblage techniques, often integrating
encaustic into the
work as either a
paint or an adhesive.
Here is an artist who's making hard - edge
paintings with a soft material, oil and wax in an
encaustic - like mix, and making it
work.
Since the 1960s, she has engaged the landscape through large - scale earth
works and earth drawings, multi-media installation,
encaustic paintings, sculptural objects, drawings and prints.
Raphaelle Goethals and John Henry exhibit in their second feature shows at Cumberland Gallery signature
work, respectively large scale
encaustic paintings and metal sculpture.
- For large - scale
works that require greater amounts of
paint (more than 104 ml
encaustic cake or one 38 ml pigment stick), it is necessary to make arrangements through the store to purchase additional materials.
(born 1938, Bronxville, New York, USA) in his earliest mature
works explored a reductive strategy which seemed similar to that of Jasper Johns's and Ellsworth Kelly's contemporaneous
works, yet more formalist:
paintings such as Return 1 consist of subtly grey fields
painted in
encaustic (wax - medium) with a narrow strip along the bottom of the canvas where Marden left bare evidence of process (i.e., drips and spatters of
paint).
From left: a grid of nine of my Silk Road
paintings, each 12 x 12 inches,
encaustic on panel (I showed earlier
work from this series in a small solo show at the gallery last year); Uttar 238,
encaustic on panel, 36 x 36 inches; an assembled
work on paper by Siri Berg
In Boghiguian's
work, the palimpsest of memory takes physical form as a rough accumulation that thickens the surface of her
paintings with
encaustic, pigment, salt, collage and non-specic debris.
Abstract,
encaustic painting on wood panel in white floater frame 12 x 12 x 2.5 inches framed James O'Shea has been praised for years for his
work as a colorist, producing layer upo...
The pleasures of minimal clarity combined with the powers of pure color are represented by the reductive
encaustic work of Gail Gregg, Don Voisine's
painting with its shifting bright planes, and in James Juszczyk's subtle tonal gradations.
Including RC prints on panel, hand
painted and layered with
encaustic, photogravures and sculptures, The Architect's Brother is the first exhibition in depth in New York of their
works, at the Jack Shainman Gallery.
Encaustic Works: Nuance is an exhibition in print curated by artist, Michelle Stuart, published by R&F Handmade
Paints.
Hyon Gyon's
paintings and sculptures teem with a raw and fervent energy, as she incorporates materials such as melted fabric, gold leaf,
encaustic, spray
paint, hair and found objects into her
work.
Also in 2015, the artist and her
work were included in the books Embracing
Encaustic: Mixing Media and Art Students League of New York on
Painting: Lessons and Meditations on Mediums, Styles, and Methods.
This exhibition celebrates the release of
Encaustic Works 2012: A Biennial Exhibition in Print selected by Joanne Mattera and published by R&F Handmade
Paints.
It was only later that I became sufficiently attuned to
painting as a medium to recognise fully the richness and complexity of facture alone of the
encaustic works.
Inspired by the Sumi brush
paintings of Zen masters, this recent body of 2 dimensional
encaustic works are an attempt to capture movement: fluid, gestural, spontaneous, whole body movement, as in a dance.
His use of
encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows him to create figurative
works in which the gesture, the actual act of
painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject.
The first California exhibition of
works by New York artist John King features drawings, prints, and
encaustic paintings, along with a display of his noted «Hotel» drawings.
Robin Rose (American, born 1946)
works within the demanding field of
encaustic painting.
Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On
Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie:
Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein:
Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical
Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure
Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell:
Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman:
Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski:
Painting and
Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal
Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours:
Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286
This color is itself cut with beeswax, at a low enough level not to conjure up associations with well known purveyors of the
encaustic technique, like Jasper Johns and Brice Marden; it instead increases the sensation of the
paint as dense and saturated, and gives it a subtle, changing play of light over the surface as the viewer moves around the
work.
I stopped doing the Color Field
paintings and began making monochromatic
encaustic work.
Pamela Golden is best known for miniature
paintings in oil and
encaustic, but the exhibition at Marlborough Contemporary presents large - scale sumi watercolor and ink
works that show surfers and dinosaurs.
This
work was made using a professional inkjet printer using pigment ink formulated to last in excess of 100 years, and
painted with
encaustic.
She often
works in series developed from source materials, where her research is rendered through miniature
paintings in oil and
encaustic.
The effect, in his monochromatic
works of this type, is reminiscent of that of Jasper Johns's
encaustic White Flag, 1955, and the younger artist's
paintings have been read as an inhabitation of modernist forms with monotonous task - based operations that bespeak Binion's personal history of manual labor.
On another visit to his downtown studio in a former bank building at 223 East Houston Street, Jasper was
working on his Map (1967 — 71), based on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Airocean World, which he was
painting in wax
encaustic.
This recent body of
work encompasses both large oil and small
encaustic paintings as well as a group of more that fifty portrait drawings - some started years earlier and many drawn within the last five years.
Over the course of her career, Mary Frank has
worked with sculpture,
paintings, drawing, printmaking and
encaustic, suggesting that her primary loyalty is not to a particular way of
working or to any medium, but rather to the power of direct expression and to the act of creation itself.
Intensely interested in experimentation, he learned to
work with «
encaustic» a method which combines pigments and hot wax before they are applied to the surface of a
painting.
Scherman is also known for his use of
encaustic painting techniques in his
work.
Adams
works on panel and paper, using a mixture of
paint,
encaustic and graphite as well as elements of monotype and collage.
Working in the medium of
encaustic she
paints, prints and constructs three - dimensional objects with bold colors embedding crystals, pearls or even metals.
Melt and grate crayons in our take on Jasper Johns's
encaustic paintings,
working with wax to design a flag that represents you.
About Blog Jane Davies is a full time artist
working in collage,
painting, and
encaustic.