More about the medium of wax and paint with the paintings of Nicole Collins now showing at General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto. A video interview with Art Sync here and below by clicking on the image.
I haven’t seen Collins’ works other than on the internet, and this is part of the loss over the internet viewing; the paintings are encaustic, beeswax and paint, and has a waxy 3 dimensional and visceral element. You get a sense of it on the Art Sync video interview clips to the paintings.
Collins doesn’t use the word encaustic, and in the interview I think it comes across that it is for her just another medium that carries the color pigments, and is a efficient preservative for 1,000s of years. Metaphors to history are made by the artist in her use of wax and her painting and using textiles like burlap or jute threads. She layers, scrapes off, pulls off, replaces wax and paint layers in her recent work.
Breaking Black, 2011, wax, pigment and rope on canvas and board, 72 x 96 in
Click image to go to Art Sync video interview.
