Beyond Paint: four artists, one question about material

Beyond Paint opens on First Friday, November 6, with the Art Walk from 5 to 8 PM and an artist reception from 6 to 8, and runs through December 3. The show puts one question to every work in it: what is it made of?

Elizabeth Hilton builds her gardens and animals from vintage paper and newspaper, mixed with other found materials. The past is the surface, and you read it in layers.

Lisa Whitwell assembles found and torn papers, burlap, lace, felt and fiber, with feathers and copper leaf among her materials.

Tamera Abaté works in beeswax and damar resin on cradled birch panel and fuses every layer with a propane torch. She works the iron and torch together, and the layers are the record of that heat.

Shaun Heslop is a carpenter by training, born in Liverpool and now based in Seattle. He works in microcement on wooden panel.

Four artists, four materials: paper, fiber, wax, cement. Come close enough to tell them apart. Beyond Paint is on view at 176 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island, 12 to 5, closed Tuesdays, and the whole show is online in the viewing room.