Abstractionist Cindy Walton is Featured Artist at Tyler White Gallery
Noted abstraction fine artist Cindy Walton, of Asheville, N.C., shows selected works in "Beneath the Surface," her series at the Tyler White Gallery, 307 State Street, May 16-June 30, highlighted by a Lunch and Learn demonstration Friday, May 16, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., and attendance at the Artists' Reception from 5-8 p.m.
The painting, "Slice of Color" (2014, cold wax on panel) a centerpiece of the exhibit, is a deftly layered, color-driven work of emotion and light.
"The cold wax medium allows me to enter into relationship with the environment," says Walton. "The way a painting defines inner and outer landscapes, involves multi-dimensional levels and rich, intricate layers naturally suited to interpretation." Cold wax consists of a beeswax paste mixed with oil paints for a matte, layered texture. Walton's mastery of the technique yields to her distinctive voice as an artist. The new works exhibited at the gallery are rendered in Walton's signature style in the cold wax medium on panel. The collection was inspired by and the mountains of western North Carolina, where Walton lives and works today, as well as the Florida coastline of her youth.Curt Butler, the co-featured abstractionist in the exhibit, is a resident of Gastonia, N.C. Respected for his experimental approach to the realm of mixed media and multi-layered color combinations, his work may be viewed in distinctive galleries throughout the southeast. His work is characterized by a distinctive use of oil paints with encaustic hot wax techniques. The resulting in canvases meld conceptions of two- and three-dimensional space with imagery-rich, non-literal landscapes.
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