2014KathyCantwell0528-Pressured Fate 5-12x12-encaustic-2014-screenview-and-web

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Comment by Resident Curator on July 21, 2014 at 11:34pm

Thanks for sharing your work.

Comment by kathy cantwell on July 20, 2014 at 6:26pm

Thank you for the great review!!!

Comment by Resident Curator on July 20, 2014 at 6:04pm

Curator’s Comments:

 

These painterly encaustic works are striking.  I intuitively respond to the exploratory mark making and skilled layering of the wax medium. The graphic components such as the directional compass lines or recognizable numerals ground the bright color and expressive gestures.  Time line 2 is particularly strong.  The duller grey lines read as smoke trails horizontally across the surface, breaking up the path of the higher chroma yellow.  The smaller green organic shapes in the top and bottom of the picture plane further suggest geographic anomalies in a map like plan of special orientation. I’m equally attracted to the piece titled Pressured Fate, though it offers a distinctly separate structure and color system.  The larger areas of quieter space are balanced by the compositional disparity in the sections of densely occupied space, composing a figural shape on a blue ground. I find these paintings to have a positive intermingling of easy fluidity and worked surfaces.