Beyond Paint
Vintage paper, found fibers, feathers, matches, copper leaf, beeswax. Every work here is made of something you can name.
Open 12–5 every day except Tuesday
Closer.
Nine places in the show, cut from the photographs of the works on this page. Each is a detail, not the whole picture. Scroll sideways.
The paper under the bird is a printed court form. In Justice's Court is still legible.
Torn newsprint around the eye, with a white cut-paper lid.
Gessoed felt and faux fur, raised off the surface.
Lace, found papers and a china marker.
Burlap and cheesecloth, with matches set into the surface.
Pigmented beeswax, fused with heat.
Copper leaf and deli paper.
Found papers laid over paint, with the type still readable.
Wax, run and dotted before it set.
Press a material. The show lights up where it appears.
Acrylic and gesso are left out on purpose. That is the paint. Everything below is what this show is made of beyond it. Every material on every card is a button too.
Old print, cut and laid down.
Elizabeth Hilton builds gardens, a horse, a magpie and a heron from vintage paper, then draws and paints back into it. Pieces of the old publications still show through. Shown here along one line, at the same height. Scroll sideways.
The image breaks open.
Lisa Whitwell starts with an animal’s face and builds the rest from what she has gathered: found and torn papers, jute, lace, burlap, felt, feathers, polymer clay, copper leaf. Matches, in one.
From there, the image breaks open: realistic detail gives way to torn paper, fabric, fiber, metal leaf, charcoal and textured gesso.Lisa Whitwell, from her artist statement
As many as thirty layers.
Tamera Abaté builds her encaustics from as many as 30 layers of beeswax, tree sap and pigment, each fused with a propane torch. Each tile below is stacked to show it. Aspen Dream is a set of five and Aspen Stack III a set of three.
Built up, then set.
Shaun Heslop works in microcement on wood panel. He is based in Seattle.
Come and see it in person.
Open 12–5 every day except Tuesday. JG Art Gallery, 176 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island.
Prices are on every work. Any work can be paid in three installments, with no interest.