Sentences with phrase «encaustic surfaces»

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.

Then there's the painting where he has the encaustic surface that's been gnawed into.

Not exact matches

The translucent quality of encaustic directly applied to the surface augments whatever atmospheric condition the image holds.

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.

Four of the paintings in the show are encaustic on newspaper; Johns revives the ancient technique of wax - painting in a way that again calls attention to the surface, which is both veined and suave, almost like skin over membrane, rather than harsh and rough like the surfaces of the abstract expressionists (or for that matter, Rauschenberg's surfaces).

As in Brydelsky's landscape and floral work, encaustic is applied to add a translucent, atmospheric quality to the surface.

In fact the yielding surface is one of the reasons I turned to encaustic.

He began his first painting in enamel but soon changed to encaustic, building richly textured surfaces.

This surface is then explored with acrylic paint, gold leaf, and encaustic.

The white color is encaustic paint poured onto the surface.

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.

Jodi turns to honey bees for the source of her «paint» to create luscious, colorful surfaces with layers of molten beeswax (encaustic).

In her paintings, Jodi uses common materials in the layers of encaustic (molten beeswax) paint to create beautiful, rich surfaces that explore the opacity and translucency of each painting.

Mixing pigment into wax — an encaustic technique traced to ancient Egypt, though rarely employed in contemporary art — creates a lumpy, optically veiled surface.

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.

Johns» treatment of the surface is often lush and painterly; he is famous for incorporating such media as encaustic and plaster relief in his paintings.

Tres Memoria, which you see here, represents one of Lynda Benglis's smooth - surfaced encaustic paintings executed on narrow, vertical supports using multicoloured liquid wax in even brush strokes, which she then manipulated with a blow torch to obtain a marbleized color effect.

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.

This encaustic medium, once manipulated by the deft touches of Marden's palette knife, yielded a sculptural nuance to the surface of the work.

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.

Using beeswax from her own hives, artist Georgia Nassikas creates intriguing textures and layered surfaces in her encaustic paintings.