John O'Hara. Cosmo, 2022, Encaustic Painting

The Deck series. Screen-printed maple skate deck float-mounted on encaustic painted board.These Canadian maple wood skateboards feature DOTS OBSESSION (2018), by Yayoi Kusama. Art dimensions: 30 x 30 H inches each Framed dimensions: 31.5 W x 31.5 H x 4 D inches each Over a year in the making, Decks is a mixed media series combining O'Hara's favorite medium, encaustic wax, as the backdrop and base for art-edition skate decks. The skate decks, screen-printed with contemporary art by Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, and more, are float mounted onto board. With a nod to pop art and street art, each board is painted to complement the decks that sit atop. In works like Deck 15 and Deck 18, O'Hara float mounts sets of Keith Haring decks...

The Deck series. Screen-printed maple skate decks. Float-mounted on encaustic painted boards.This open edition set of 4 skate decks features Keith Haring's Man and Medusa and was designed in 2018 by The Skateroom with the Keith Haring Foundation. Art dimensions: 48 x 48 H inches Framed dimensions: 49.5 W x 49.5 H x 4 D inches Over a year in the making, Decks is a mixed media series combining O'Hara's favorite medium, encaustic wax, as the backdrop and base for art-edition skate decks. The skate decks, screen-printed with contemporary art by Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, and more, are float mounted onto board. With a nod to pop art and street art, each board is painted to complement the decks that sit atop. In works like Deck 15 and Deck 18, O'Hara float mounts sets of Keith Haring decks...

The Deck series. This authentic Supreme deck features an image of Bruce Lee with a Supreme logo. The deck is float-mounted on encaustic board. Individually affixed to the board are hundreds of Hong Kong postage stamps emblazoned with archive film photos of Bruce Lee. Art Dimensions: 36 x 36 H inches Framed Dimensions: 37.5 W x 37.5 H x 4 D inches Over a year in the making, Decks is a mixed media series combining O'Hara's favorite medium, encaustic wax, as the backdrop and base for art-edition skate decks. The skate decks, screen-printed with contemporary art by Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, and more, are float mounted onto board. With a nod to pop art and street art, each board is painted to complement the decks that sit atop. In works like Deck 15 and Deck 18, O'Hara float mounts sets of Keith Haring decks...

The Deck series. Screen-printed maple skate decks. Float-mounted on encaustic painted boards.This open edition set of 3 skate decks features Keith Haring's Untitled 1984 and was designed in 2019 by The Skateroom with the Keith Haring Foundation. Art Dimensions: 48 x 36 H inches Framed Dimensions: 49.5 W x 37.5 H x 4.25 D inches Over a year in the making, Decks is a mixed media series combining O'Hara's favorite medium, encaustic wax, as the backdrop and base for art-edition skate decks. The skate decks, screen-printed with contemporary art by Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, and more, are float mounted onto board. With a nod to pop art and street art, each board is painted to complement the decks that sit atop. In works like Deck 15 and Deck 18, O'Hara float mounts sets of Keith Haring decks...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's encaustic Painting of Nothing #28 is made of ceramic raw materials, dry pigment and wax. This piece is part of his ongoing Painting of Nothing Series. Hirsch applies the waxy mix with a brush onto redwood plywood backed structures with two-inch wood strips all around and used various torches to layer, flux, bubble and blend. "Waxy and very tactile, they are probably the work Mark Rothko would have done had he spent most of his life in clay. Hirsch’s paintings have the nuance, subtle texture, and color shifts that become evident in blown-up photographs of his ceramic objects as well as a similar presence." Signed and dated en verso by the artist. This painting ship directly from the artist’s studio in Rochester, NY. (Literature: "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design", Scott Meyer (Author), RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press 2012 - "The Paintings" pgs. 102 - 105) Richard Hirsch brief bio: In the field of contemporary ceramic, Rick Hirsch has earned an international reputation. He has achieved this recognition by engaging in numerous diversified professional activities. Through efforts in university teaching, exhibits, writing, lecturing and researching he has risen to worldwide prominence. In 1975, Hirsch co-authored a book entitled Raku, published by Watson-Guptill. This was the first comprehensive text to address the new innovations developing in the west that were transforming traditional Japanese Raku. Also, in the same year, Hirsch became a founding faculty member of The Program in Artistry at Boston University. Currently, Hirsch is a Professor Emeritus at The School for American Crafts which is a part of Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. His university teaching career now spans well over four decades. Repeatedly, Hirsch has participated in several milestone exhibitions and publications. Significant shows include; The Evolution of American Art in Craft Media Since 1945; Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics; American Ceramics Now; Raku: Origins, Impact and Contemporary Expression; and Convergences: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary American Ceramics...

Scarlet O’Hara Peony by Michael Zeppetello A photograph of a Scarlet O’hara Peony by Michael Zeppetello in a custom wood frame lacquered white with 5 ply rag mat. Photographed on F...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's encaustic Painting of Nothing #9 is made of ceramic raw materials, dry pigment and wax. This piece is part of his ongoing Painti...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's encaustic Painting of Nothing #5 is made of ceramic raw materials, dry pigment and wax. This piece is part of his ongoing Painti...