Sentences with phrase «of encaustic wax»

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

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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.

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).

Stover works with a cool palette of dark blue / teal, beige, pumpkin orange, and taupe on white, finishing the work with an encaustic wax coating.

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.

«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.

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).

The results are sumptuous abstract encaustic paintings that utilize a minimal color palette and repetitive imagery, thick layers of translucent and opaque wax, paper prepared with batik markings and hand rubbed oil stick combined to create multi dimensional panels.

The process portion of the work starts happening when I begin applying layers of the wax - based medium of encaustic.

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.

A period of experimentation led the artist to encaustic, a type of painting that involves adding pigments to heated 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.

Reception: Friday, September 8, 2017, 5 - 8 pm Gallery Talk: Wednesday, September 20, 6 pm The WAX exhibition, curated by Jack O. Summers, brings together the encaustic work of seven artists: Nina Caruso, Lynda Cole, Birgit Huttemann - Holz, Candace Law, Chris McCauley,...

«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.

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.

For instance, he was one of the few exponents of encaustic painting (pigment mixed with hot wax), and sculp - metal, a quick - drying material designed for crafts hobbyists rather than serious sculptors.

Encaustic, a method reaching back to ancient times, is by definition a technique consisting of layers of wax fused together with heat.

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.

A master of the volatile medium of encaustic, Little creates living, breathing abstractions of oil and wax on canvas.»

The style two photos above is paired with an encaustic painting, which is a technique of applying paint mixed with wax on canvas or art board.