Beyond Paint

The show's proposition was direct: painting is not the only way to make a mark. Beyond Paint brought together artists whose practices exceed traditional painting — Tamera Abaté's thirty-layer encaustic built with beeswax and a propane torch, Barbara Duzan's bead-pressed clay sculpture, Andy McConnell's carved cedar constructions.

These are practices where the material is the subject. The work is about what wax holds, what cedar carries, what beads do to surface. The show made an argument for the seriousness of material investigation as a primary artistic mode. Works from this exhibition remain available.