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ART TALK: Nash Hyon - About Making Art With Wax April 17, 4pm To 5pm Join Nash Hyon as she takes us inside her process for making art. In this talk, Nash will describe how she gets ideas and translates them into the exciting pieces that will be on display in the Bruce S. Kershner Gallery from March 30 to May 18. Hyon works with wax (encaustic) – an unusual media these days, but one of the oldest art media known. Come and listen and learn and ask questions as Hyon describes the fascinating history of encaustic, how it has been used by artists throughout history, and how she is incorporating it in her work. She will bring her tools and equipment, so every step of the process will come alive. The talk is on April 17, from 4 to 5pm in the second floor Memorial Room of the Fairfield Public Library. ABOUT NASH HYON Ms. Hyon’s primary medium- encaustic-is comprised of beeswax, damar resin (from pine trees) with pigment and is one of the oldest mediums used by painters. This medium also functions as a type of metaphor as her paintings are about transformation and the natural world. Since 2000 she has been painting a series based on the elements of the Periodic Table. The elements form a type of miniature universe or micocosm. Painter Nash Hyon received her MFA in 1998. Since then her work has been exhibited in Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America at the Montclair Art Museum , The National Academy of Sciences in D.C. and The Knoxville Museum of Art among others. She is an artist member and teacher at the Silvermine Guild of Artists and will be a speaker for the second year at the National Encaustic Conference being held this summer in Massachusetts .THE TALK The talk is possible through the generosity of the artist and the support of the Friends of the Fairfield Public Library. |
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