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Atlantic Gallery 2021 Juried Exhibition

July 13 – 31, 2021

Opening Reception
July 15, 2021 6pm – 8pm

A Juried Group Show with Grand Prize:
A One Week Solo Show at Atlantic Gallery in NYC’s Chelsea Art District

Runner up
One artist will be awarded the book ‘Cold Wax Medium:
Techniques, Concepts & Conversations’ by Jerry McLaughlin & Rebecca Crowell

JUROR
Jerry McLaughlin, painter, award-winning author, and co-founder of Cold Wax Academy

CALL DESCRIPTION:

A juried Group Show with Grand Prize: a Solo Show at Atlantic Gallery in NYC’s Chelsea art district.

This past year art has been a refuge for many, a challenge for others, yet creativity prevails as we weather the ongoing storm. As artists we rely on numerous forces intrinsic to our creative process, navigating difficult and challenging periods, giving rise to beautiful and complex works. Now is the time to gather our resources and strength, and rebuild: our lives, our world, our art. Atlantic Gallery is seeking works from this past year (2020-21) that inspire, and embrace, the spirit of rebuilding, renewal and resiliency. Submitted artwork must utilize wax, whether in the form of cold wax, encaustic, or both, in two-dimensional or three-dimensional works. A printed full-color catalog will be provided to each accepted artist. One artist will be chosen by juror, Jerry McLaughlin, for the grand-prize of a weeklong solo show at Atlantic Gallery at a later date.

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JUROR: Jerry McLaughlin, painter, award-winning author and co-founder of Cold Wax Academy

Jerry McLaughlin is best known for his powerful, rough, yet subtle paintings built through an intensive working of dozens of layers of paint, pigments, and beeswax, along with additives like earth, sand, and wood ash. His astutely textured, minimalist works are informed by the structural world of adobe, concrete, asphalt, stone, and steel, as well as by the decay, erosion, and weathering of those materials. Deliberate in its minimalism, his work is nonetheless intimate. Its detailed textures invite close examination. We feel the urge to touch them.

Exploring the interplay between beauty and darkness, his work is often inspired by the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Edna St Vincent Millay, Constantine Cavafy, and others.

Though McLaughlin is now a full-time abstract artist, he initially trained as a pediatric critical care physician, an influence still quite palpable in his work. Recognized as an expert in cold wax medium, he teaches extensively, across the US and abroad. In 2017, he co-authored, Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts & Conversations, the first ever comprehensive book on cold wax medium. The book won a 2018 International Independent Publisher Gold Medal and a 2018 International Book Award.

His work has been collected across the US and internationally and has appeared in many magazines and other publications. He is represented by HG Contemporary in New York and DZine Gallery in San Francisco.

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ANASTESSIA BETTAS Exodus 11 Encaustic on wood panel 12” x 6” x 1.5” $200

KATHLEEN COSGROVE Birth Mixed media, cold wax, and collage 16” x 16” x 1.5” $2,000

DIANE BROWN Passion’s Fury Cold wax and oil 24” x 24” x 1.5” $600

LORRAINE GLESSNER In the Shape of an Hour Encaustic, collage, pyrography, thread, and hair on wood 18” x 18” x 1.5” $750

DONNA LITKE Remembering Paper Encaustic, plaster 24” x 18” x 1.5” $800

ENOSH SVORAY Fungus Vase Wax 12” x 6” x 6” $300

JANE CORNISH SMITH Staying Above Water Plaster, Fosshape, gouache, cold wax, and encaustic on panel 12” x 12” x 2.5” $675

DEBORAH PEEPLES Almost There Encaustic on panel 30” x 30” x 1.5” $2,000

MICHELLE HAYDEN Emergence Encaustic, Fosshape 5” x 10” x 7” $870

SHARY BARTLETT Lotus Encaustic, surgical masks, pins on panel 6” x 20” x 24” $400

ANDRÉE-ANNE LABERGE Entropy Encaustic, wood, cardboard, foam, branches, spray paint 16” x 14” x 10” $600

BETTINA EGLI SENNHAUSER Tears of Heaven 04 Encaustic 11.8” x 11.8” x 1.8” $990

CINDY LESPERANCE Strata 9339 Encaustic 20” x 20” x 2” $800

LIA ROTHSTEIN Polarity 5 Handmade paper, encaustic, oil paint, and graphite 18” x 12” x .5” $700

CHRISTY NELSON Reforming Salvaged zipper and 104-year-old quilt in encaustic 16” x 16” x 2” $800

YVONNE PETKUS Colossus Oil and encaustic on panel 12” x 12” x 2” $600

RICHARD COICO Meraki Encaustic with mixed media 30” x 30” x 2” $2,000

KATHY COULSON Beyond Lockdown. Dreaming of a Golden Future. Encaustic mixed media 14” x 15” x 3” $2,500

CLAUDIA HOLLISTER View Out the Kitchen Window Encaustic over cyanotype prints 14” x 18” $1,890

DEBORAH KAPOOR Ancestors Fiber, tar paper, encaustic 5” x 3.5” x 2” $300

BARBARA GROH In the Shadow of Oneself Beeswax, cold wax, rubber gloves, oil, graphite, and tape 8.25” x 11.5” x 11.5” $2,700

KATIE C. GUTIERREZ Resilient Joy Encaustic, clay, cold wax, resin, and glitter on panel 25” x 7” x 4.5” $1,050

JOE CELLI If I Rub My Eyes Encaustic, oil stick, wood, waxed thread, mesh 24” x 15” x 4.5” $800

SARAH POST Neighborhood Garden Plots Collage, oil and cold wax mixed media 36” x 36” x 1.5” $3,200

KAREN ABBOUD Restart Canvas collage on board, cold wax, oil, encaustic, acrylic 18” x 18” x 1” $500

SALLY HOOTNICK Cuba Cold wax on wood panel 30” x 24” x 1” $1,600

VICTORIA SIVIGNY If Walls Could Talk – Remembering Cold wax and oil 21” x 17” x 1.5” $650

ELISE WAGNER Satellite Encaustic and oil on panel 40” x 30” x 2.25” $5,800

EDWARD MILLS Red Game Encaustic and cold wax on board 24” x 24” x 1.5” $10,000

JENNA JERMAN From the Ashes Cold wax and oil pain on Arches oil paper 20” x 16” $680

ANGELA HANSEN Encrustaceans Encaustic 17” x 7” x 5” $1,000

DENISE PRESNELL A Dream Oil and cold wax on panel 30” x 30” x 1.5” $2,100

TRACY CASAGRANDE CLANCY Collective Memory: Imogen Encaustic mixed media (plaster, encaustic, cold wax, and collage) 14” x 16.5” x 6.5” $1,900