Sentences with phrase «in encaustic wax»

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The prints go though the flatbed etching press twice — once with the inked up plate for the landscape a second time when the print has dried to add the dot and then an encaustic veneer or varnish is added last, so they are encased in wax.

Self - taught in wax encaustic, Memphis based artist Mary Long has been painting with this medium almost exclusively for the past decade.

Subsequently, this inspired him to create The Flag, a painting in encaustic — this classical technique has its roots in ancient Egypt and it is based on mixing pigments with melted wax.

The remainder come from a mix of private and public collections, with the Whitney Museum of American Art lending one highlight: the 1958 canvas «Three Flags» done in encaustic — a traditional, wax - based medium that Mr. Johns used to create an uneven, almost rippling texture, underscoring the handmade nature of his flags.

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).

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.

I paint primarily in encaustic, and encaustic requires elevated temperatures — hotplates to melt the wax, a heatgun to fuse the layers of paint once they are laid down.

Encaustic, screenprint, and wax crayon on collaged cotton and linen, 48 1/16 × 75 3/16 in.

«Mattera's encaustic paintings involve pouring layers of pigmented wax one over the next, building up and scraping away to create pieces of brilliant color that catch the light in surprising ways.

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.

1999 Shaping a Generation: The Art and Artists of Betty Parsons, Hechscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY Linear Impulse, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Cape Museum of Fine Art, Cape Denis, MA The Surrealists in Exile and the Origin of the New York School, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain «As America As...»: 100 Works from the Collection of the Parrish Art Museum and Keith Sonnier: Tri-Parrish, Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Postmodern Transgressions: Artists Working Beyond the Frame, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Impossible Landscapes of the Mind, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY

(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).

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

JAMES TURRELL (B. 1943) North Space signed, titled and dated «North Space, 1993 James Turrell» (on the reverse) encaustic wax with mica powder on wood panel in steel frame 25 x 20 in.

White North Space signed, titled and dated «White North Space 1993 James Turrell» (on the reverse) encaustic wax with mica powder on wood panel in steel frame 25 x 20 in.

For over 20 years I have focused solely in working in this ancient technique of wax encaustic where elements are combines with heat as the active solvent.

She works with the ancient technique of encaustic wax, a combination of beeswax, resin and pigments in which heat serves as the active solvent.

American artist Lynda Benglis began experimenting with encaustic in the 1960s, in part inspired by Jasper Johns and his dedication to wax.

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.

The main gallery showcases Rose's encaustic paintings, which mix pigment and wax in undulating or crosshatched patterns that somewhat resemble those used to produce both sound and line in Scriptronics.

Numerous exhibitions and catalogue essays include Reordering Reality: Precisionism in America 1915 - 1941 (1994), Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America (1999), Will Barnet: A Timeless World (2000), Cézanne and American Modernism (2009), Warhol and Cars: American Icons (2011), and The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 (2013).

«Flag,» a 48 - star American flag made of wax encaustic on silk flag on canvas, will be showcased in a niche gallery at the entrance to the museum's permanent collection beginning June 13, the day before Flag Day.

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.

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.

Johns was interested in technique, and used encaustic wax to create his 1954 Flag painting.

Royal Academician Terry Setch has been painting in encaustic for 40 years, and here he demonstrates some of the wax - wrangling techniques he uses to create his multi-layered and richly textured paintings.

Melt and grate crayons in our take on Jasper Johns's encaustic paintings, working with wax to design a flag that represents you.