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Elise Wagner: Ancient materials, contemporary abstraction.
Elise Wagner and the Material Language of Encaustic Collagraph
For more than three decades, Elise Wagner has explored the luminous possibilities of encaustic painting — building layered surfaces from beeswax, damar resin, and pigment. Less widely discussed, but equally significant, is her contribution to contemporary printmaking. Through the development of encaustic collagraph, Wagner extends her painting practice into works on paper that retain the same sensitivity to surface, translucency, and structure.
In her hands, wax becomes not only a painting medium, but a printable matrix.
Elise’s prints are represented by Warnock Fine Arts in Palm Springs, CA.
Astoria artist opens Seattle exhibit, flies to overseas adventure
The trajectory of Astoria artist Elise Wagner continues to soar. After a gala opening of an exhibition of her work at a Seattle gallery, she was flying to London to teach a class in encaustic collagraph printmaking, then going to an art seminar in Verona, Italy. She calls it “a momentous travel and teaching adventure to London and beyond.”
Artist Elise Wagner: Coast to Coast
With a June show at Astoria’s Imogen Gallery, the Oregon encaustic painter from New Jersey comes full-circle.
Elise Wagner, getting up close with her work. Photo courtesy of Elise Wagner.
This month marks a new chapter in the career of artist Elise Wagner, long known for her encaustic paintings, with the opening of her June show “Wonder Lands” at Astoria’s Imogen Gallery. After more than a quarter-century in Portland, Wagner has also relocated to this picturesque, historic town where Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific. But it’s not the first time this New Jersey native has changed course, and her arrival in Astoria arguably marks, as for the explorers, completion of a coast-to-coast journey.