Simayspace @ the Academy

Colored wax applied to a surface artfully is called encaustic painting. Robert Treat is a phenomenally skilled encaustic painter. The large canvases and smaller paintings on paper that are being shown are all abstract paintings. The abstraction is very organic and biomorphic. The artist enjoys using organic materials (wax) to paint organic-form abstractions.
Wax is an interesting painting medium as it is translucent. While watercolor can be transparent and oil paint is opaque, uniquely wax allows multiple layers of intention to be visible through the surface. Simayspace is proud to exhibit Robert Treat, a skilled and thoughtful painter and a faculty member of the Art Academy.

Gary Galligan received his art training in the Mid-West. Perhaps this helps explain his fastidious attention to the details of materials and the acts of painting. Gary paints realistically as well as abstractly. He has been quietly, seemingly shyly, working for years in this community. As a manner of introduction, Simayspace is proud to show a series of abstract paintings. These abstract paintings are executed as the apparition of a realist screen, tabled within the frame of the canvas itself. Framed realism sets the stage for the emotion of abstraction.