Dania Al-OBaidi pushes her materials to their absolute breaking point. This boundary pushing and border breaking is realized in dynamic encaustic and mixed media works

 

Anastessia Bettas is an encaustic painter who is influenced by urban landscapes and cartography. She uses scraping and incised encaustic techniques to create grids that evoke urban erosion and aerial views

 

Maggie Doswell layers applications of wax and ink, thereby transcribing the transition from reality to abstraction.  Compositions are structured through heat and cold at various stages of production; geometrical shapes and elements of pixelization characterize her current work 

 

Claudia Mandler McKnight combines cold wax and oils to create contrasting viscosities in landscapes of the heart and mind

 

Melissa Tseng utilizes multiple layers of transparent pigmented beeswax to achieve visual depth and glowing luminosity. She also paints acrylic, overlaying subtle glazes to achieve the soft radiance  associated with encaustic paintings

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Linda Virio employs heated wax to accentuate areas of smooth translucence, juxtaposed with fields of opaque encaustic texture.  Her paintings interpret her rural surroundings