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Marybeth Rothman is known for her luminous, figurative encaustic* and mixed media paintings. A solo exhibition of her work, Artifacts of Gains and Losses, was shown at the Treasure Room Gallery in New York, New York. Recently she was invited to exhibit at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, in Ripped: The Allure of Collage with Roy Lichtentstein, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, George Grosz and others, curated by Kenneth Wayne, Ph.D.; in Kindred Spirits at Clark University’s Schiltkamp Gallery, in Worcester, Massachusetts, curated by Toby Sisson; MERGE: Encaustic & Contemporary Prints Invitational, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA curated by Cherie Mittenthal; and Encaustic: Medium Meets Message at the Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL, curated by Amanda Cooper and Leslie Bloom. She received the Juror’s Award at the 5th International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Work from her series Biographical Annotation was exhibited in New York City in Identity, at Tria Gallery, and in Waxing Poetic at the Hewitt Gallery. She was selected to exhibit in 2010 New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Art at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton New Jersey. She is one of the featured artists in the newly published books Encaustic Works ’11 by Joanne Mattera, Contemporary Paper and Encaustic, International Trends by Catherine Nash, Embracing Encaustic 2nd edition by Linda Womack, Best of Worldwide Portrait and Figurative Artists Volume l, and The Drooel Collection by Darlene Shields. She has received recognition in many New York competitions that were juried by distinguished curators including: Manual Gonzales, a Global Art Executive at JP Morgan Chase; Melanie Marino, Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; and Susan Cross, Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She will be delivering the opening talk, Wax Collage: Beyond Technique at the 6th International Encaustic Conference in June 2012. Rothman has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the US. Rothman is represented by Tria Gallery, New York, New York, and Mark Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey. Her home and studio are in New Jersey. "A master of her medium. These paintings are a brilliant fusion of — Nancy di Benedetto, New York Author and Art Historian
* ENCAUSTIC is luminous, pigmented beeswax. Damar, a tree resin, is added to the beeswax to render hardness. Encaustic paint is applied in a molten form with a brush to a rigid surface. A propane torch or heat gun is used to fuse each layer. This many layered process makes all imbedded material such as drawings or photos integral to the encaustic structure as well as creating a visual depth that is unique to this medium. The use of encaustic is first noted in the 4th century B.C. painted on the hulls of Greek ships. The most well known examples of early encaustic painting are the Greco-Roman, Fayum funerary portraits, from 100 B.C. to 200 A.D. These two thousand year old encaustic paintings can still be seen in museums around the world.
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