The Loveland Museum
of Art
Encaustic Works by Four Colorado Artists
Loveland, Colorado
July 10th to September 25th 2021
Light Affects
Encaustic Art in Colorado
Encaustic • [inˈkôstik] (especially in painting and ceramics) using pigments mixed with hot wax that are burned in as an inlay. Late 16th century via Latin from Greek enkaustikos, from enkaiein ‘burn in’, from en- ‘in’ + kaiein ‘to burn’.
The medium used for encaustic painting generally consists of about 8 parts beeswax melted together with 1 part damar resin (the sap from the Canarium strictum trees of Malaysia and India). The addition of the resin allows the beeswax to cool to a harder consistency thus creating a more durable paint medium. Powdered pigments are added to the molten beeswax and resin to the beeswax mixture to create paints in a multitude of colors and hues. This beeswax based paint is kept molten on a heated palette before being applied to a surface using brushes or other tools. Each layer of wax paint is then heated with a blowtorch or heat gun to fuse the new layer with the previous ones. This heating process is how the painting technique gets its name; "encaustic" comes from the Greek meaning to "burn in". This museum show features the art of four Colorado encaustic arts including Patricia Aaron and Jane Guthridge of Denver, K. Rhynus Cesark of Aspen, and Boulder’s own Susan Wasinger.
Encaustic Works by Susan Wasinger
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Travel Boulder Magazine
Boulder Artists Join Studio Doorz
Boulder, Colorado
Summer/Fall 2021 Edition
Travel Boulder Magazine highlighted local artists in their Summer Fall Edition who are opening their studios to visitors utilizing a unique website called Studio Doorz. The site allows travelers to book a time to visit an artists’ studio in any city or area they may be traveling to. Its a little like Airbnb and Open Studios had the perfect artistic and logistical love child. As one of the first artists to be invited into the Studio Doorz network, Susan and her studio were featured in the article.
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The Red Brick Center for the Arts
The Best of Colorado Art 2020
Aspen, Colorado
January 16 through February 27 2020
Colorado 2020
Aspen, Colorado
As a leader in supporting the arts as essential to creating thriving communities, Colorado is attracting talented artists passionate about their creative practice. The 2020 Colorado Juried exhibition presents artworks from across the state to inform about relevant topics, techniques and experimentations that artists are currently addressing. The selection of works was juried by two premiere Aspen gallerists, Sam Harvey of Harvey Preston Gallery and Skye Weinglass of Skye Gallery Aspen. The jurors looked for inventiveness, a high level of skill, and thoughtful use of the medium with a focus on individual expression. The exhibition creates a platform for the exchange of ideas and dialogues through the artworks, and ultimately between the artists themselves from across the state. Susan Wasinger’s piece The Opthalmologist’s Cabinet was awarded “Honorable Mention” from amongst the fifty artists in the show.
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New Works by Susan Wasinger
Solo Show
at The Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado
in The Lobby Gallery
May 4th through June 23rd
Wow & Flutter:
And the uncertainty of outcomes...
Wow and Flutter nouns • [wau] [fluht-er] a wavering in a reproduced sound or tone caused by irregularities during recording, duplication, or reproduction. Low-frequency irregularities cause "wow". High-frequency imperfections are called "flutter".
This group of paintings attempts to depict visually how things feel, or what they sound like, or how they work on the inside, or what they are doing when no one is looking. This work is full of the whir of things, the buzz, the fizz, the ricocheting energy, of light, of sound, of intention. This collection of paintings celebrates the wow and flutter, the unexpected, uncontrolled imperfections that affect our speed and our trajectory, the random elements that change how this world spins. Just when we think we know what we are doing, something comes along that is out of our control, something that totally surprises us, throws us off balance, and takes us off on an unexpected journey. It is this wonderful and terrifying uncertainty of outcomes that keeps things interesting, it creates the tension, the drama, the growth and the magic in our lives.
