On the long wall facing you as you enter the gallery is a series of twelve inch square paintings, each a variation of the one pictured here. Elsewhere in the gallery were her larger paintings and sculptural pieces.
I fell in love with the sculptural pieces. Sorry. I don't have images of these. There were four in all and sized from about two to three feet tall. They were all on pedestals. Inset into the sides of several of the houses were small maybe two inch deep indentions that ran either vertically or horizontally. These made perfect little shelves or windows into which are placed little treasures, perhaps talisman. These secreted spaces draw you closer to the work making the viewing experience very intimate.
Echoing the house and the past with its secrets are the series of paintings from which the two below are a part.
Tracye Wear Good Housekeeping #1, 2007
encaustic on wood panel
12 x 12 inches
Tracye Wear
Good Housekeeping #4, 2007
encaustic on wood panel
12 x 12 inches
The painting below is one of the Ware's larger pieces in this exhibition.
Tracye Wear
Family Tree, 2006
encaustic on wood panel
40 x 30 inches
It is really exciting to see a major gallery in Houston showing and selling encaustic paintings and helping our art audience overcome any fear they have of the fragility of this medium.
All images here are from the gallery web site.
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