"Stillness in Motion" at WSG Gallery

This exhibit at WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan runs from September 23 - November 2, 2008.

"Bulging Flat", patinated silver leaf on polyester film, 60x40


Installation view of 4 screen pieces.


"Indotempo", encaustic wax on 2 layers of screen creating a Moire pattern, 36"x36"



"Stillness in Motion", encaustic wax on 2 layers of screen creating a Moire pattern, 36"x36"


"Lightness in Dark", encaustic wax on 2 layers of screen creating a Moire pattern, 36"x36"


"Traveling", encaustic wax on 2 layers of screen creating a Moire pattern, 36"x36"


Patinated silver leaf on 12"x12" squares of plexiglas - four of 20 in the grid


"Reflection", patinated silver leaf on polyester film, 24"x36"


"Waterfall", patinated silver leaf on polyester film, 72"h x 60"w

Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit, Michigan

These are images of commissioned pieces included in the newly renovated Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit, Michigan.

The first two are grids of 8.5"x8.5" squares of patinated silver leaf on plexiglas.





"Elemental 20 - Blue Stripe", patinated silver leaf on polyester film, 44" x 32"



"Elemental 21", patinated silver leaf on polyester film, 35" x 65"

"The Distance Between Black and White" - Woman Made Gallery

These are photos of the pieces that were in the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, September 2 - 28, 2008. All of them are acrylic transfers of photos on the back of half inch sanded plexiglas. Each on is 18"x24" or 24"x18".

"Porch Rain"


"Ocean Web"


"Black Tree"


"Land"


"Grasses"


"Skywriting"


"Lake Michigan Trees"


"Tree Fence"

sunrise at Wingaersheek Beach

beauty on 11 June 2008, 4:30am

new work at Wenniger Gallery in Rockport, MA

Here are the encaustic paintings on cradled panels that I have at the Wenniger Gallery. I'm showing work there with Mari Marks Fleming and Chris McCauley. My assignment was to make small paintings and to work from photographs taken the year before at Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester, MA.

"beach 5", 12" x 12" x 2"

"beach 1", 12" x 20" x 2"

"beach 15", 12" x 12" x 2"

"beach 13", 20" x 12" x 2"

"beach 14", 18" x 16" x 2"

"beach 7", 12" x 12" x2"

"beach 8", 12" x 12" 2"

"beach 4", 12" x12" x 2"

"beach 11", 12" x12" x2"

another grey - CCQ

This is a really useful grey. I was taking a workshop on "Painting Still Life" which is a stretch for me. I used these three colors (Cobalt blue, Cobalt yellow and Quinacridone red) to get to a nice dark black, the greys and the bright, various oranges I needed to paint the orange (fruit) that I was using as my subject. Because I know these colors will work together to make black and grey, as opposed to mud or some dull greenish black, I had a full range of bright, primaryish colors through the secondary colors and on to black to work with. Plenty of choices and they are guaranteed to all look good together since they're incestuous.

The workshop was an extension of the Second Annual Encaustic Conference held in Beverly, MA. I learned lots and made new friends - nice.

black

grey

cobalt blue

cobalt yellow

quinacridone red

variation 1

variation 2

variation 3

I tried to make these color samples smaller but no luck - maybe next time.

Dizzy and Suse

Last week was a special week. We were hosts to Dizzy and Suse Krisch. We have begun a friendship. It's a good feeling.

Dizzy and Suse were strangers, here as part of an exchange between sister cities Ann Arbor, Michigan and Tübingen, Germany. Suse (Susanne Höefler) is showing her artwork at WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor. Dizzy plays the vibraphone and treated a few people to his talent while he was here. Next year some of us from WSG Gallery will visit Tübingen and complete the circle.

Here is some of Suse's artwork. They are painted with water soluble crayon on paper and are 50cm x 40cm.

Waxing Well: Encaustic Painting at the Wenniger Gallery

This is Beach 5. It is encaustic wax on cradled panel, 12" x 12" x 2" by Lynda Cole.

The Wenniger Gallery in Rockport, MA will be showing the work of three painters who work in wax. The three painters are Lynda Cole, Chris McCauley and Mari Marks Fleming. This exhibit will be up during the Second Annual Encaustic Conference being held at the Montserrat School of Art in the next door town of Beverly, MA . The exhibit at the Wenniger Gallery runs from June 7 - July 8. There will be an opening celebration with music, refreshments and the artists on Sunday, June 8, 4 - 7pm.

Lynda Cole and Chris McCauley will both be working, in different styles, from the same photographs taken at Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester, MA during the First Encasutic Conference in 2007.

Second Annual Encaustic Conference

This is an image of "White Weather" a piece of mine that was juried into the exhibit at the Second Annual Encaustic Conference being held at the Montserrat College of Art this June. Using infrared film, I snatched this composition from the length of the film strip, waxed it and paper engineered it to this geometric, 3 Dimensional shape. The folded pattern works with the printed pattern like weather components layer upon diurnal rhythms to give us each unique, meteorological day. I took the photographs in 2005. I created this piece in 2008.

The juror was Laura Moriarity, Director of Exhibitions at the Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints. Laura is a painter and sculptor, beginning with multi layered flat wax which she builds into very 3 Dimensional forms.

another good color family, including black and grey - ISU

These colors are made of Indian Yellow, Sepia and Ultramarine Blue. They are all encaustic sticks from R&F Paints. Sepias can be quite different across brands so using another brand of Sepia might make quite a difference. This is a kind of low key color family. The sepia lowers the brilliance but it's still an interesting bunch of colors. There is some white, probably Titanium, in a few of the last four swatches.

the blacks -




the 3 original colors -






some interesting stops -