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"The Spirit of Reconnection"
Encaustic on Birchwood Panel, 12"h x 24"w, 2009

(Sold)
Private Collection of Alla Shvarts
Reconnective Healer
Brooklyn, NY


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Learn How To Paint With Encaustics

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Artists, Musicians and Singers Unite!
An interview with the band Noble Gas
Musician and Singer  Mike and Lily Lutgen
who are collaborating with Carolyn Goodridge on the
music for the DVD "The Spirit of Encaustic Art"
There is also a clip of their "groove" in the second half of this video.
Check it out!  If this doesn't get you shaking and laughing, nothing will!!
To get on the list for the early release announcement of the DVD click here:


Learn How To Paint With Encaustics


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Carolyn S. Goodridge and Visitor, Randy at the Jarrett Thor Gallery
Colonial Beach, VA
Viewing "Angel of Freedom, Guardian of Dreams"
Summer, 2009

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"The Yang Series, No. 6"
Encaustic, Installation View: 72"h x 36"w, 6 panels @ 12"h x 36"w, 2004

$2750




(Click on the individual panels for a larger view.)

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Artist Statement
 

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WHAT IS YANG?

The artist asks one question in the Yang Series: What is the virtue of a relationship? Virtues are absolute and forever, so one may logically say that there is no virtue in something that does not last, as in relationships. Even the best wither, as lovers die and memories fade.

The ancient Chinese I Ching divination system reveals hidden answers at work in our lives. By asking a life question, and then by tossing 3 coins six times, the artist draws a series of code lines. The six-line configuration is called a hexagram, lines drawn, either unbroken or broken. The lines are drawn starting at the bottom and proceed to the top until there are six lines altogether.

Each group of three lines are called a trigram. Each trigram represents a force of nature: Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Water/The Deep, Mountain, Wind/Wood, Fire/Sun, The Marsh/Mist. Yang is the very first hexagram of the I Ching, a twin trigram representing heaven below and heaven above. The attributes of Heaven are: inspiration, power, aggressiveness and completeness. The two trigrams, six unbroken lines, become the departure point for the painting and further cultivated as an organic abstract landscape.

The Yang series are abstract landscapes... suggesting sensuality, and nature’s essential motion -- forms of nature in the act of creating life. The melted and then pigmented beeswax (encaustic) medium is mixed and fused to create reticulations, lines, organic shapes, networks, and patterns within the paint. Gravitational forces and natural chemical reactions produce crystals and coastline borders on the earth’s surface. An organic medium such as beeswax seems extremely fitting to the organic imagery.

Carolyn S. Goodridge
February 25, 2004

 


Encaustic comes from a Greek word which means "burn in".
This ancient medium of melted beeswax mixed with pigment
was once used in Greco-Roman Egypt to paint mummy masks
from 100 B.C. to A.D. 200



Fayum Portrait

The range that comes with pigmented wax is tremendous.
The artist must fuse each new layer of applied wax by
heating or burning in the new layer to the layer just beneath.
Modern day painters create exquisite textures and translucencies.
A sculptural effect can range from
"heavy" or built up impasto surfaces to the imagery of a very joyful and
seductive dance of the seven veils.



It takes as many as 10 Million flowers



for bees to make
one pound of wax.



What an honor to use this medium.

More about encaustic.


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Carolyn S. Goodridge and Yang No. 5 at the Guggenheim
Saturday, December 13, 2003

36”h x 36”w
Oil, Raw Pigment, Polymer, & Acrylic, 2003
$
1,250

See a photo of Rosenquist & Goodridge


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