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Allyson Levy
Happanese: Abstract Encaustic Painting of Hemp Leaves on Light Mint Green

2020

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Abstract painting made with light green encaustic and brown hemp leaves and branches resembling a tree Happanese, made by Allyson Levy in 2020 48 x 34 inches hemp leaves, branches, and encaustic on two panels hangs with d-rings, Signed, verso This modern abstract encaustic painting by Allyson Levy is made with beige and brown hemp leaves and branches and light pastel green encaustic. The artist begins by finding the organic material in her 4-acre garden in upstate New York which she then arranges and embeds with encaustic on a wooden panel. The branches are laid in a pattern resembling outstretched tree arms and are then layered with a thick coat of encaustic wax. The negative space between the two panels acts as the trunk of the tree. During the drying process, the encaustic wraps around to the sides of the panel, revealing some bumps and downward drips. The piece hangs with two d-rings that are installed on the back of each wood panel. About the artist and her work: After moving to the rural town of Stone Ridge, NY seventeen years ago and starting a 4-acre botanical garden with her husband, mixed media artist, Allyson Levy, has found endless inspiration in the plant kingdom that surrounds her. The garden itself, named “Hortus Conclusus”, consisting of thousands of rare plants and edibles, remains at the epicenter of Levy’s art making. A fascination with earth’s bounty is expressed with her works in encaustic. Assorted organic material such as leaves, seeds, branches, insect wings, and flowers are decoratively arranged in a layer of beeswax, encaustic, and pigment. Some panels have richly pigmented backgrounds; specks of gold found in poppy pods reflect off of a mat black base and plum purple contrasts the natural coloration of birch bark. Following her original inspiration based on a 15th-century practice of preserving seeds in wax during extended sea voyages, Levy’s intentions are to capture and reflect on a specific moment in the material’s life span. Adding, “from sprout to decay, the viewer is visually confronted with the profoundly beautiful, devastating and inevitable cycle.” Allyson Levy has exhibited with the gallery and regionally since 2000.
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