I am 9 miles north of NYC and awaiting Irene’s arrival with 80 mph winds in a few hours. Today I dragged it in or tied it down, filled the tub, bought water, flashlights and made chocolate cupcakes. I moved my paintings out of the studio and covered them… maybe […]
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Summer Work in Progress
I always work on several paintings at the same time so that I can maintain some sort of critical perspective. This tryptich, Fern has been appearing on my work table off and on throughout the summer. She’s a work in progress. The color is a bit off in this photo […]
Read MoreWax in the Context of Collage, Bricolage and Assemblage, Part Two
David A. Clark, “Vers la Nuit”, encaustic, paper & object on panel 15″ x 15″ x 3 1/2″, 2010 This is Part Two of a curated blog exhibition that I posted in May. The work here further illustrates the contemporary use of encaustic paint in combination with collage, bricolage and […]
Read More>Wax in the Context of Collage, Bricolage and Assemblage
> Catherine Nash Eclipsis Lunar Mixed media assemblage, encaustic painting in an antique box, wax pencil and chalk drawing of a ca. 1552 lunar eclipse diagram on an old school slate; antique copper compact, mica, branches, handmade paper with walnut ink and encaustic. 17.5”h X 25”w (open) X 10”d, 2011 I curated […]
Read More>Fifth Annual Encaustic Conference
> I am the featured artist on the Fifth Annual Encaustic Conference Blog. “The Encaustic Conference is the first and only annual event to draw from an international roster of exhibiting artists who are fully engaged in the medium of pigmented bee’s wax. “
Read More>Exhibiting at the Heckscher Museum of Art
> This fall I will be exhibiting in Ripped – The Allure of Collage at the Heckscher Museum in Hunntington, NY. My work will be featured along with collage works by Jean Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, Dali, Romare Bearden, and others. October 29, 2011 through January 8, 2012
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