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Touchstone Contemporary Art Gallery

901 New York Avenue NW
Washington D.C 20001
202-682-4125

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The Whole Ball of Wax: Georgia Nassikas

November 22, 2012 Touchstone Gallery
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Georgia N photo

Georgia Nassikas, a new Touchstone artist, paints in the encaustic medium, so she has something in common with the ancient Egyptians who painted mummy portraits 1700 years ago -- and more recently Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Diego Rivera, Jasper Johns, just to name a few. All these artists painted at some time in their lives with the encaustic medium: hot beeswax infused with colored pigments.

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In Art Thoughts Tags ancient paintings, artist, ball of wax, barn, bee, beehive, encaustic, heat gun, honey, honeybee, Jasper Johns, Kandinsky, Klee, melted wax, painting, pigments, sting, wax, whole ball of wax, yard
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Out of Chaos: Rosemary Luckett

October 29, 2012 Touchstone Gallery
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Whether an artist's studio is neat as a pin or heaped full of brushes, tools, clay or wood, disorder characterizes the creative process. A chaotic jumble of ideas spill out of the brain and become organized in drawn or painted forms. Tubes of color sort themselves out, then are squeezed onto the palette in a jumble of mixed hues. A teapot spout, in a box of cast-offs, offers itself to the sculptor as the beginning of a bird with a long neck. A dream works its way to the conscious surface, suggesting a vision that emerges in material form from a chunk of clay.

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In Art Thoughts Tags adventure, art, art classes, art making challenges, art studio, beginnings, chaos, clay, creative thinking, dreams, harmonic sense, how to make a collage, organizing art supplies, painting, sculpture, stimulus, successful compositions
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