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4TH FLOOR GALLERY
\r\nExhibition on view: July 21-September 8, 2017
\r\nOpening reception: Friday, July 21, 7-10pm
Encaustic painting is one of the oldest painting techniques, dating back to the ancient Greeks, who used it to caulk ships and paint funerary portraits on sarcophagi. In Greek, the word “encaustic” means “to heat or burn in”. Encaustic consists of natural bees wax and damar resin (crystallized tree sap). Heat is used throughout the process, from melting the beeswax and resin to fusing the layers of wax.
\r\n\r\nThe artists included in this exhibition embrace the use of wax, not as just another option in a wide range of available art media, but as a dynamic, organic, almost living medium that manifests the seductive qualities of tactility, translucency, and mystery through their work in a singular way.
\r\n\r\nDan Addington
\r\nAlicia Forestall-Boehm
\r\nCat Crotchett
\r\nHelen Dannelly
\r\nShelley Gilchrist
\r\nCarol Hamilton
\r\nJeffrey Hirst
\r\nCindy Lesperance
\r\nJane Michalski
\r\nAhavani Mullen
\r\nSarah Rehmer
\r\nPaul Rinaldi
\r\nMichele Thrane
\r\nVA de Pintor
\r\nKathleen Waterloo