“The Age of Aquarium” (encaustic with layered toner transfers), by Providence-based artist Angel Dean, in New England Wax’s group show “Transparency,’’ at Wellfleet (Mass.) Preservation Hall, May 21-June 27. Also see the 17th Annual International Encaustic Conference in nearby Provincetown, May 31-June 2.
Ms. Dean’s artist statement includes this:
“Angel Dean is an artist who mainly works with encaustic media. Her work is personal and unconventional. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, Dean makes work that is the by-product of the life she’s living.
“‘The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up & get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part & a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.”’
— Chuck Close
