This work is from a series of works on paper exhibited in the solo show: “The Temperature of Light” at Kean University, NJ 2015.
Full colour catalogue with critical essay:
http://issuu.com/jyntema1/docs/kean_university_janise_yntema_2015/1
Usually perceived as a highly active colour, the tranquility of cadmium is here explored within the refractive spectrum
Image size: 20 cm x 31 cm, 7.75” x 12” mounted on archival board 41 cm x 51 cm, 16” x 20” matted
Janise Yntema is an American abstract painter currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium.
She works with the ancient technique of encaustic wax, a combination of beeswax, resin and pigments in which heat serves as the active solvent.