Gallery at Museo and it's Review of the Opening in Austin

Local artists Daphne Holland, Kristi Darnell Battani, Marilyn Fenn, Sharon Kyle Kuhn, and Roxi McClosky Morris are exhibiting several original works of ‘encaustic’, a method of painting with wax that predates the roman empire. Any medium is as interesting as the artist makes it, and these artists demonstrated forethought to product with a developed process that is self-evident. Roxi’s gridded process speaks well to her mathematical approach and skilled portraiture, and Sharon’s use of outdated technological storage media was dimensional, timely and interesting. Daphne’s cuts through thick layers of wax, draw the eye along its edges and split thick fields of rich and sometimes translucent color. Wax captures and transforms light in its lighter colors and gently transforms it into a soft glow. The dependence art has on light is nicely visible in encaustic painting.