Tracye Wear
Opening Reception, Sat. June 1, 6 to 9 pm
this exhibition on view Thurs. May 30 - through Sat. June 29, 2013
Summer Gallery Hours, Wednesday - Saturday, 11 AM to 6 PM
Born in in Louisiana Missouri, Tracye Wear studied at the University of the Americas in 1969 and graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree from Kent State University before taking part in the VISTA program in Washington County Arkansas from 1971 through 1972. The artist earned her MFA at the University of Arkansas in 1977 while acting as a community organizer for the Washington County Office of Economic Opportunity and serving as a teaching assistant in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Arkansas. Wear came to Houston in 1978 to teach art history in Houston's Independent School District from 1979 through 1997. Wear became the Magnet Vanguard Coordinator for gifted and talented students at Jones High School in 1997 and was the Director of Advanced Academics for the Houston I.S.D from 2008 until 2011.
You Might Also Like, encaustic, 30"x 20" y.2013
Tracye Wear has also acted as a presenter for the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, the Texas Association of Museums Conference, and the Museum of Fine Arts "Teachers Teaching Teachers" as well as serving on the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Education Advisory Committee and the Artist Board of Directors for the Art League Houston and Divers Works. The artist is presently on the Community Engagement Task Force of the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts.
Ms. Wear has presented solo exhibitions in Houston at Little Egypt Enterprises, Craftwork Gallery, U. T. Medical Visual Arts Gallery, Art League Houston, and the Joan Wich Gallery before this most resent solo show coming in June at d. m. allison art on Colquitt.
Cock Tails, encaustic, 12" x 12" y.2012
From The Artist Tracye Wear:
"Twenty-five years of making functional and sculptural ceramics provided me with a sense of surface and multi-stepped processes that are evident in my encaustic work. I use encaustic because its seductive, lambent quality plays counter to secretive and illusive imagery. Moving from opacity to translucency, the medium conceals revelations."
"In this series, I use images of plants and trees growing outside my studio. Flora dominates the panels, hiding stories and poems and exploring what lies below the surface, what is behind walls, what is out of site hidden in our lives and minds and in our immediate surroundings. You can see a word or phrase here and there, but never the complete story. "
Sunday Morning with Yellow Bike, encaustic, 40"x 30" y. 2012
At d. m. allison this June, the artist makes an almost complete transition form her noted ceramic works and the three dimensional pieces found in recent exhibitions, and comes to rest on a platform built upon the encaustic process also known as hot wax painting. This technique involves layering heated beeswax onto wooden panels. Wear makes her encaustic mixture by adding darmar resin and pure pigments to the beeswax and often finishing the work with applications of oil sticks
Metal tools and special brushes are used to shape the wax and work the surface like paint before it cools, while heated metal tools are sometimes used to manipulate the wax once it has cooled. This technique allows Wear to recall just a hint of the 3D aspects found in her earlier ceramic work. The artist also uses tools such as heat lamps, heat guns, and other methods of applying heat to extend the amount of time she has to work with her materials. Some works have elements that are encased or collaged into the surface using the encaustic medium to adhere those elements to the surface.
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