Wayne Montecalvo
Wayne Montecalvo
I work with image, process, and a variety of materials in order to push the confines of art making to reinvent, rather than reproduce an image. Allowing an idea to emerge organically through curiosity, I manipulate the materials to create unexpected results that distort and redefine. I start with something expected, and end up with something mysterious, aiming for singular or unique outcomes within a defined image. Taking a painterly approach gives me the option for discovery by welcoming chance occurrences to create a new way to see a familiar object.
Wayne’s awards and honors include the Awagami Artist-in-Residence Program at Awagami Paper Factory in Tokushima, Japan; NYFA MARK ’09; Two Full Fellowship Awards for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Two Residencies at the Frans Masereel Zentrum voor Grafiek, Kasterlee, Belgium; John Michael Kohler Foundation Arts/Industry Artist-in-Residence, Sheboygan, WI; Women’s Studio Workshop Artists’ Fellowship; and an Artists At Work: New York State Council on the Arts.
Website: waynemontecalvo.com
Classes with Wayne Montecalvo
Layering Digital Images
This workshop focuses on using digital images combined with encaustic paint and other materials. For this class, students use their own images to create work. Using Japanese papers, the workshop addresses ways to manipulate the image while incorporating methods to push an image beyond what comes out of the printer. The papers used in the workshop should be very absorbent, and become transparent when combined with wax. Making use of overlapping imagery, while combining other techniques such as drawn imagery, India ink, acrylic paint, stained paper, prints, etc., will add dimension to a photographic image, achieving a unique one of a kind piece.
Basic supplies:
Encaustic medium
Heat source, heating pallet, or electric frying pan or griddle.
Heat gun
Paint brushes
A few panels to work on, plywood is fine, preferably coated with encaustic gesso.
Digital images printed on absorbent paper (thinner Japanese papers work well).
Optional materials:
Encaustic paint, collage materials, block out paint, or encaustic gesso, India ink, general studio tools and materials
