Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Fort Worth Community Arts Center
May 8 - June 20, 2009
www.fwcac.org
Here's a slide show that includes lots of images, from beginning to end:
Monday, March 9, 2009
Additions
So we're going to each make a few new paintings and also a couple of artist's books. We decided that the books would be 5" x 5" and accordion bound. Other than that and keeping with the theme, we left it open. Wax or no wax.
So I finished my first book (I'm going to do one more) the other day.
It's 5" x 5", copies, , vintage wallpaper, encaustic, and solvent transfer. I love how the paper becomes more transparent when it has wax on it. This allows you to see the wallpaper pattern through the paper.
I'm excited to see the show back together again!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Coming soon to Fort Worth!
Waxy Buildup will be on exhibit at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center
May 8 - June 20, 2009
1300 Gendy St.
Fort Worth, TX 761087
www.artsfortworth.org
I hope you can stop by and see it! We're planning on adding some new pieces.
And it might be traveling east later in the year. Stay tuned!
Friday, July 25, 2008
Waxy Buildup: Cleaning House
Waxy Buildup: Cleaning House
Paintings by Trayc Claybrook and Deanna Wood
August 17 - September 28, 2008
Opening Reception:
Sunday, August 17, 2-4 pm
Center for Visual Arts
400 E. Hickory
Denton, Texas, 76201
Directions to the Center for Visual Arts
Gallery Hours:
Tues - Sun, 1-5 pm
I hope you can join us!
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Final 3
Special thanks to Trish for giving me the vintage wallpaper!
So now Trayc and I each have 13 pieces. Unless she sold some in her show, which would be great!
Friday, August 10, 2007
Artist's Statement
The idea – Create a two-person show using the encaustic technique. We brainstormed on a title that played on the idea of wax and came up with “Waxy Buildup : Cleaning House.” We decided to interpret it each in our own way. We posted our progress on a blog - www.waxybuildup.blogspot.com.
I decided to take the approach to this theme from the inside out. I have been doing some personal-inner work and felt that this was the perfect opportunity for me to finalize and release some of the old habits and beliefs I had gotten rid of and honor the new points of view and truth that have moved into those spaces. I chose to use the image of the woman’s legs in red pumps as a metaphor for my process of killing off “the wicked witch” in myself that no longer served me. The other elements, images, and text represent new lessons learned and ways of “being”.
- Trayc Claybrook
When we came up with the concept and the phrase “waxy buildup,” I immediately visualized the stereotypical 50’s housewife – happy to not only serve her family and clean her house but look beautiful to boot. The subtitle “cleaning house” led me to search for imagery and words that related to housekeeping and traditional “women’s work.”
These words combined with the house shape and imagery of the happy housewife create a body of work that is both nostalgic and cynical. The nostalgic images and words elude to a happier, simpler time that most likely didn’t exist, except perhaps on TV. The perfect housewife was supposed to conform to a strict set of rules and expectations.
– Deanna Wood
Monday, August 6, 2007
Update
So I did a bunch of small paintings. They're each about 2" x 4" or so.
I really liked some of the things that happened on these smaller pieces. So when I found out that Trayc had made 13 paintings (she had thought we decided on 12 each and I had thought we decided on 10 each...), I took the opportunity to order some more boards and I'm going to do 3 more pieces.
I have to admit, too, that seeing Trayc's finished pieces made me feel a little self-conscious about a couple of mine that I wasn't really happy with. So I trusted my instincts and redid them.
Here are the updated pieces, still in progress:
I'm just waiting on Trayc's artist's statement (hint, hint!) and then we're going to send out some proposals!
Update to the update - Here are the two paintings above in their finished states: