Lisa Carl: Liquid, Stilled - Encaustic Painting DEMO Friday February 28

Cary Arts Center Principal’s Hall | 101 Dry Avenue
Artwork on Display through March 23, 2025
Medium: Encaustic

My paintings celebrate color, organic movement, inorganic stasis, and objects left behind. Encaustic paint is the perfect medium for these celebrations: its lush, translucent colors, the organic liquid and accretion patterns it creates, and the endless possibilities it offers for layering, incision, and incorporating objects. These works explore color and movement in numerous ways. Many are re-visions of photographs I’ve taken. Abstracted from their familiar figurative contexts, these pieces highlight the many ways in which human-made structures interact with and inform the organic landscape. Similarly, other works isolate found objects (rusted metal, wood, shells, stones), inviting the viewer to contemplate the singularity of the humble and mundane.

www.lisacarlpaintings.com