This Friday’s Feature artist is Laura Moriarty!
I love her geologically inspired sculptural paintings and encaustic monotypes!
She writes:
I work at the boundary of painting and sculpture, making installations and pedestal-based works that are an elaboration of visual information. Referencing diagrams found in earth science textbooks, I study the way events and phenomena occur in the geological time scale, creating micro/macro records in paint of what happens below a terrain's surface.
I love her geologically inspired sculptural paintings and encaustic monotypes!
She writes:
I work at the boundary of painting and sculpture, making installations and pedestal-based works that are an elaboration of visual information. Referencing diagrams found in earth science textbooks, I study the way events and phenomena occur in the geological time scale, creating micro/macro records in paint of what happens below a terrain's surface.
Accretionary Wedge (and detail), 2011, encaustic on panel,12 x 12 x 7 in.
Caldera (and detail), 2010, encaustic on panel, 11 x 5 x 5 in.
These encaustic monotypes are a by-product of my sculptural works. I use a heated metal plate to help erode and plane the painted surfaces, and in the process create these interesting skid-marks. Sometimes I capture them on paper as another way of recording time spent making art.
Intrusions Series, 2010, encaustic monotypes, 9.5 x 11.5 in. each
To learn more about Laura Moriarty, visit her website!
TGIF!
Mary^
TGIF!
Mary^
