WOW!

WOW!

National Show of Encaustic Work

Curated by: Elena De La Ville

November 3 - December 31, 2011

Opening Reception: November 3, 2011, 5PM - 8PM

WOW! Women & Wax will feature leading artists in the field who are dedicated to the innovation of contemporary art and ideas. Artists from around the country were chosen for their innovative and contemporary use of the Encaustic medium. The exhibit provides a platform for dialogue and education, while increasing the understanding and appreciation of encaustic art.

Encaustic is one of the oldest forms of painting wherein beeswax, resin and pigment are layered and then fused to produce a luminous surface that both captures and transforms light. These artists melt, layer, scrape, and sculpt to create their individual vision in wax.

Invited artists:

Binnie Birstein

Neverne Covington

Karen Freedman  

Diana González Gandolfi

Joanne Mattera

Laura Moriarty

Nancy Natale

Catherine Nash

Jane Allen Nodine

Elena De La Ville

Art Center Sarasota

707 N Tamiami Trail

Sarasota, FL 34236-4050
941-365-2032

Installation Images of Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility

Installation shot of my work. Photo by Daniella Woolf

Here are images of the work of two of the 21 artists I am exhibiting with at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah.

Daniella Woolf,
Top - True Grid 5166, encaustic on panel,  8 x 10 x 2 inches
Bottom - True Grid 5189, 12 x 12 x 2 inches
Photo by Daniella Woolf

Lorraine Glessner, Down 6th Street (Wires),  24" x 24", encaustic, horse and human hair, mixed media on composted and branded silk on wood. Photo by Daniella Woolf

Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility

Reclamation: Earthly Pleasures and Reclamation: No More Cross Words are just two of my paintings you will see at Encaustic With A Textile Sensibility, A group show curated by Daniella Woolf at the Kimball Art Center in Park City Utah. The exhibit shows the work of 21artists from across the country who are featured in her book by same name.

Reclamation: Earthly Pleasures, 2009, encaustic on panel, 12" x 12"

Reclamation: No More Cross Words, 2008, encaustic on panel, 12" x 12"

New Work and Exhibitions

Ruche 0352, 2011, encaustic on panel, 12" x 12"

Ruche 0399, 2011, encaustic on panel, 12" x 12"

Ruche 0399 is part of Rhomboid Rumba a curated post on Joanne Mattera Art Blog. The show features 34 artists who are using the diamond, rhombus or other parallelogram derivative forms in their work. It's a geometric feast for the eyes!

Ruche 0400, 2011, encaustic, oil stick on panel, 12" x 12"

Ruche 0400 was selected for the juried show Beeline at the Fifth International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA. Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown, June 3 - 17.

Fourth Annual Encaustic Conference - Director's Award

Reclamation: Cold Laughter at Twilight, 2009, encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches

My painting Reclamation: Cold Laughter at Twilight won the Director's Award at the Fourth Annual Encaustic Conference at Montserrat College of Art, June 2010. The show, Best Foot Forward, displayed the work of close to 200 conferees. Click to link to an online catalogue of the exhibit compiled by Kathleen Burke, an artist and attendee.

"The 12x12-inch painting engages the most sensuous aspects of encaustic, luminosity and optical depth, within the rigor of the grid. Small, barely translucent squares of difference sizes float visually on the surface of the painting just above a gridded scrim through which you can peer into what seems like a bottomless pool of geometry."

Joanne Mattera, artist, blogger and founder and director of The Encaustic Conference