Art by Medium: Encaustic

"Moon Shadow" in the "Celeste and Sea" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax ...

"Down Comes the Sky" in "Urban Peace" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax m...

"What Is What Really Is" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. This painting conveys ...

2022, Encaustic on wood

Encaustic, red earth, piñon resin, carving and 21k moon gold leaf on wood panel

Encaustic painting is an ancient art form and was practiced by artists as far back as the 5th century B.C. The word encaustic comes from Greek and means “to burn in”, which refers to...

Encaustic and oil on canvas

Shirley’s love of creating came at an early age. She learned many of her techniques from the time she spent with her depression-era grandmother, making artistic statements from items...

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Laura Moriarty's Talking to Rocks 19 is a multicolored encaustic monotype on kozo paper. Layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting ...

Tony Scherman (1950 - 2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work, typically executed in encaustic, a mix of wax an...

Tony Scherman (1950 - 2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work, typically executed in encaustic, a mix of wax an...

Tony Scherman (1950 - 2023) is one of the most collected and celebrated Canadian artists working today. He is renowned internationally for his work, typically executed in encaustic –...

Shirley’s love of creating came at an early age. She learned many of her techniques from the time she spent with her depression-era grandmother, making artistic statements from items...

Kevin Frank is represented by George Billis Gallery. Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new master...

Kevin Frank is represented by George Billis Gallery. Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new master...

Frank Olt was a artist in residence at P.S1, the legendary Long Island City studio/gallery complex during the late 70s. Olt regards himself largely as a self taught painter, identify...

Frank Olt was a artist in residence at P.S1, the legendary Long Island City studio/gallery complex during the late 70s. Olt regards himself largely as a self taught painter, identify...

Frank Olts encaustic paintings are images that he creates from landscapes through out his travels. With a studio in Oyster Bay New York you find his colors pulled from the sea, the ...

Michael David (b. 1954) Billie's Tree Signed, Titled, and Dated 1982 Verso. Provenance: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (bears label en verso) where it had been exhibited for nearly two decades. It was also Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA NYC) just after he won the National Guggenheim Award. The Piece Measures approximately 70" x 71" x 8" Deep. Michael David Singer; born 1954, is an American painter. Born in Reno, Nevada, David's family relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised. He attended SUNY Fredonia for one year and in 1976 received a B.F.A. from Parson's School of Design. Michael David is classified as an abstract painter, best known for his use of the encaustic technique, a was pigmentation technique which incorporates pigment with heated beeswax. He is also known for his works in mixed-media figure painting, photography and environmental sculpture. He often incorporates religious iconography and symbolism, art historical themes such as the nude, and contemporary politics into his paintings resulting in a critical dialogue between the layered abstraction of the surface and the integrated representational imagery. His work is included in the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 1976 David, erotic photographer Roy Stuart and Fredonia friend Richie Stotts formed a band called The Numbers, with David on bass. The group was a fixture in New York's early punk rock music scene, playing in clubs alongside punk pioneers Television, Blondie and the Ramones. David also played bass with punk innovators Jerry Nolan of The New York Dolls, Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys, Marky Ramone, Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem and the free-improvisation noise music group Borbetomagus. In 1977, The Numbers were approached by impresario Rod Swenson, who was seeking musicians to form a backing band for singer Wendy O. Williams, whose radical persona he sought to exploit as punk music and performance art. The Numbers became The Plasmatics but the attention David began to gain as an important voice in the art world caused him to leave the band to pursue his burgeoning painting career. David's first one-man show was in 1981 at the historic Sidney Janis Gallery. That year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, at the time the youngest artist ever to do so, and in 1982 was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize. He went on to exhibit at galleries worldwide and was represented by Knoedler & Co. for the next 25 years. David is best known for using the encaustic technique of painting, which uses pigment combined with heated beeswax. David built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, which formed the bulk of his output until 1999. Since then he has also experimented with representational painting and traditional photography. In 2000, he developed the "Chortens" and "Populations" series, about which prominent art historian and critic Donald Kuspit writes: "They are enigmatic works, all the more so because of the way their innumerable details form singularly monumental, intimidating wholes. Dense yet delicate, awesome yet intimate, they convey the fragility as well as grandeur of sheer being. Layer upon layer of paint piles up like layer upon layer of coral, but the textural result is more epic, not to say startling, than any coral island, and virtually any other existing abstract expressionist painting (upon which they are stylistically founded)." In 2001, David developed bi-lateral neuropathy due to being poisoned by gases released by overheated beeswax used in the encaustic process. The disease left him with partial paralysis of his legs, slowing the production of his painting for a number of years. That year, David began painting one of his best-known series, the "fallen Toreadors", inspired by 19th century French Realist painter Édouard Manet's "The Dead Toreador" of 1864. In 1993, David experimented at the "20x24" Polaroid studio in Manhattan, which resulted in a series of portraits of playwright Edward Albee and of friend Jackie Gross, which would become the ongoing "Jackie" series of mixed-media works. When neuropathy rendered him unable to paint during 2003, he returned to the 20x24 camera and shot large-format Polaroids inspired by Caravaggio; nude men and women dressed as Toreadors, and religious imagery. In 2002, David began to develop The Greenhouse Project, an evolving "architectural construct" based on historical American Antebellum greenhouses built using the actual glass negatives sold to starving farmers in the post-American Civil War South. David has indicated that each greenhouse will, through the display of photography and use of social networking, create a forum and exhibit for ideas and artifacts related to civil and human rights; the specifications of each greenhouse particular to the community in which each is built. David's work was reviewed in Artforum and Art in America, and is considered one of the last links to the New York School of painting. David may be the most innovative master of immediate surface since the abstract expressionists. He has acknowledged his debt to Abstract Expressionism, but he has transformed it. Where the abstract expressionist paintings of the forties and fifties seem like modern cave paintings, as their crude, unfocused, often meandering, turbulent painterliness suggests, and as such to reinstate prehistory, David seems to turn the cave into a temple, as his more considered, concentrated, indeed, dense, contemplative painterliness indicates, so that his paintings have the aura of post history. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Radiate, Garvey Simon, New York, New York 2021 Selections from NYFA - Courtesy of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, New York, New York 2020 Bill Lowe Gallery Presents: Masterworks from the Gallery 2016 The Golem, The Jewish Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany In a Post-World: Post-Punk Art Now, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York 2014 Gallery Artists, Bentley Gallery, Pheonix, Arizona 2011 Post Mammalian Tension: Michael David & Scott Browning, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, (Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg etc) Forty Years of American Drawings, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany Germany Summertime, Knoedler & Company, New York, New York 1997 Michael David and James Hyde...

"Purplescent" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is inspired by the meeting place of land and sea where earth and water merge; the fleeting moment between time and space where one g...

This small abstract encaustic painting by Linda Bigness features a vibrant multicolored yellow, turquoise, and muted red palette with a neutral background and neutral painted sides. ...

"Fern" — mixed-media painting of a fern isolated against a textural blue background by Donise English Oil and encaustic on paper Image size: 16 x 20 inches / Frame size: 21.25 x 25 ...

This is an abstract encaustic painting by Linda Bigness. It features multicolored orange, violet, blue, and turquoise palette with silver leaf accents and neutral sides. Dabs of pain...

"The Rising Sun" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswa...

"Earth in Repose" in the "Celeste and Sea" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified bees...

Etched in Stone is an original encaustic painting by San Diego Artist, Shima Shanti. Shima is an encaustic painter working in the ancient art form of painting with molten beeswax and...

"Unbeheld Schema" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. This painting conveys an unde...

An abstract, multicolored encaustic monotype on paper with layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight Japanese Masa paper create an undulating composition in brown earth tones sugges...

Encaustic on board. 4 panels, framed

Elizabeth builds the wooden structure giving the piece a solid surface to work with. These pieces are encaustic and hand rubbed. She uses a torch to accomplish the dark colored nua...

Layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight Japanese Masa paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological formations in bright shades of d...

Gloria Dudfield (1922 – 2015) Untitled c.1960's Encaustic and charcoal on paper 16"x18" Unsigned Came from a portfolio of her work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gloria had a Mast...

Tony Scherman (1950-2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work in encaustic (a mix of wax and oil, one of the most...

Series: Santa Fe Day 1/1 Oil And Encaustic With Silver Floater Frame Size: 36" x 47" (91.44 x 119.38 cm) with silver floater frame Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, i...

Adenium Obesum, known as the 'Desert Rose' is a peculiar succulent. These stunning flowers bloom across African deserts. With a life-span of 500 years, they outlive their admirers. T...

Encaustic and oil with acrylic frame 1/1, While experiencing the flow and drips of molten beeswax and the partial mixing of blue, cyan and purple in Pool Lights, calm is created wit...

Series: Layered Desert Oil and encaustic Size: 36" x 36" with silver floater frame Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, en...

Series: Beehives Beehives, Encaustic Beeswax, Fabric, Beehives Size: 18" x 46"/ 46" x 18" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with pa...

Series: Untitled 1 Encaustic and Oil On Wood Panel Size: 30" x 40" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photog...

Series: Untitled 2 1/1 Encaustic and Oil On Wood Panel Size: 30" x 40" x 2" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encausti...

Series: Woven Woods Encaustic and Oil Shellac With Silver Floater Frame Size: 30" x 40" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with pape...

Series: Plunge Triptych Oil and encaustic Size: 80" x 108" (36" x 80" each panel) Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, enc...

Series: Many Moons Andrea’s encaustic Many Moons encompasses warm, soothing tones whilst complemented by darker tints of indigo and a splash of yellow. The color combinations break ...

Series: Triple Moon Oil and encaustic Size: 12" x 36" x 2" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photography, ...

Series: Deep Woods Encaustic oil and shellac Size: 28" x 58" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photography,...

Martin Rosenthal "Triangles and Semi Circles" 1965 Encaustic & Oil paint on paper 20"x13" unframed Signed and dated in ink lower left Martin Rosenthal 189...

"Efflorescence" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified bee...

Encaustic on paper

"Three Pears" is an original encaustic painting done on board and block framed by DC African American artist, Lisa Jennings, whose work is inspired by natural forms and ideas and sh...

"Ashore the Sea of Peril" in the "Water in Motion" collection is inspired by the rhythm and flow of water derived from San Diego encaustic artist Shima Shanti's own observation and ...

"Eternal Return 2" in the "Hikaru" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Hikaru—Japanese for Light and Radiance—i...

"Eternal Return I" in the "Hikaru" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Hikaru—Japanese for Light and Radiance—i...

In considering the work of Jacques Payette in its entirety from the beginning until today, one realizes an immediate desire for proximity. The close-ups, repoussoir backgrounds and o...