Date/Time
Date(s) - Jun/09/2022 - Jul/31/2022
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Allure Art Center Main Gallery
Categories
Artful Wax is a multimedia painting exhibit featuring two Virginia artists who utilize various wax techniques in their works. Anne Stine is best known for her encaustic mixed media paintings that reflect an intimate, human connection with the natural world. She adds a contemporary twist to landscape painting by combining oils with encaustic beeswax medium, then fuses each layer using heat onto a wood panel. Visually, her paintings are lively and instantly recognizable, capturing the aesthetics of serene environments through her brilliant use of color and texture. “I want people to see nature through the eyes of a child, full of awe and wonder, to help recapture the often forgotten connection to Mother Earth.” After a career in arts marketing, Anne followed her long-time passion for painting, and now her work hangs in public and private collections all over the world, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Encaustic Art in New Mexico.
Julie Fritz, a Virginia artist whose works feature oil, cold wax and often earth elements will also be featured. “All of my landscapes are grounded in a real place and time, the creeks, rivers, bays, the lakes, and oceans. To these settings I add my experience as a life-long, dedicated artist and observer of nature to a multitude of available ingredients: top grade oils, cold wax, sand, gold leaf, marble dust, graphite, dry pigments. I always hope my paintings are just abstract enough to take the viewer deeper without losing the essence of Place.
I apply 20 to 30 layers of color and texture onto a large birch board where much drama takes place as layer upon layer of oil color and cold wax is applied and manipulated, stressed, and then scraped back to reveal the rocks, and rivers, and soil as they are willing to express themselves. The result is a complex transparency which brings the painting to life. I love how abstract art engages viewers and encourages them to spend time looking at the work.”
This featured artist exhibit will showcase their newest works which utilize the wax as an art medium. The works will be on exhibit through July 31st.
