Beauty and Its Opposites

June 5 – July 3, 2009

Reception: Sat. June 6, 6 - 8 pm

Diane Aldrich Kleiss, Man's Delicate Balance: AVARICE (detail), 2009, found objects, encaustic

Kathleen Austin, Pandemonium, 2009, encaustic, photo transfer, collage, carpet tacks

Danielle Correia, I Was Minding My Own . . . (detail), 2006, encaustic mixed media

Robin Luciano Beaty, Colloquy, 2009, encaustic, paper, aluminum, glass, bark & nails on braced birch

Elena De La Ville, Terrorist, 2008, oil and encaustic on board

Cora Jane Glasser, Nothing Sacred, 2009, encautsic, oil, and pen on 12 homasote panels

 
This group exhibition features 20 artists from across the US, selected from a group of 61 entries by Nick Capasso, Senior Curator at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass.  Capasso selected the theme Beauty and Its Opposites to challenge participants to go beyond the beauty of the wax.

DIRECTOR'S PRIZE: Elena de la Ville

MONTSERRAT PRIZE: Gregory Wright

CONFERENCE PRIZE (popular vote): Robin Luciano Beatty

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Danielle Correia, Donna Hamil Talman, Donna Johnson, Paula Roland, Daniella Woolf.
 
“Beauty is once again a relevant issue in contemporary art, and it is particularly relevant to encaustic where there is an expectation of beauty,” says Capasso, noting the lush surface and translucence of the medium. “I am personally interested to see how much one might intentionally subvert beauty. How might you make a work not beautiful and why? I’m interested in the dialog between the overtly beautiful and the non-beautiful.”

Artists: Diane Aldrich Kleiss, Tucson, AZ
Kathleen Austin, Framingham, MA
Robin Luciano Beaty, Byfield, MA
Danielle Correia, Kingston, NY
Elena De LaVille, Sarasota, FL
Cora Jane Glasser, New York, NY
Donna Hamil Talman, Worcester, MA
Loree Hirschman, Palo Alto, CA
Donna Johnson, Atlanta, GA
Roberta Lee Woods, Santa Cruz, CA
Christopher May, Smyrna, GA
Ruth Ann Muirhead Stephens, Huntsville, AL
Jane Allen Nodine, Spartansburg, SC
April Nomellini, Chicago, IL
Sandra Quinn, North Yarmouth, ME
Paula Roland, Santa Fe, NM
Kristin Swenson-Lintault, Seattle, WA
Rodney Thompson, Redding, CA
Daniella Woolf, Santa Cruz, CA
Gregory Wright, Lowell, MA