Exhibition on view: June 18 – August 14
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 18 • 3 – 5 p.m.

RELATIONSHIPS: hot, cold, intricate – featuring New England Wax, a regional association of 31 artists who work in encaustic and other wax mediums. Encaustic, in Greek, means “to burn in”. It is an exciting art medium with a rich history that offers many creative options. Composed of beeswax, tree resin, and pigment applied with a brush or other tools while molten, each layer is fused to the previous one using a heat gun, torch, or other heated implement. Cold wax is a more contemporary medium combined with oil paint or other pigmenting methods. Each of these wax mediums offers many possibilities for translucency, layering, incising, and other techniques in both 2D and 3D work. The exhibiting artists, from the 6 New England states, use creative interpretations of the RELATIONSHIPS theme to demonstrate the many expressive and unique possibilities of working with wax-based materials.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION PROGRAM:
Artist Panel
Saturday, June 18 • 2 – 3 p.m.