MICHAEL DAVID.

From: Artforum International | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

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Michael David's most recent abstract encaustic paintings are eloquently deceptive: What looks at first like wispy atmosphere--elusive surges of color against an amorphous ground--is on closer inspection revealed to be a tactile, heavily built-up surface. For over twenty years, David has been working in this encaustic technique, which involves combining dry pigments with melted wax and damar varnish, and he takes the process quite seriously: Pump (all works 1999) uses some sixty pounds of molten cadmium-red wax--a magma the artist pours on the canvas in a ...

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