Arlene Piacquadio

Arlene is a New Yorker who moved to Rhode Island. She studied Art at Ohio University, Marymount College,The New School, RISD and began teaching Art in the early 70’s. Her mediums included Pottery, Jewelry, Oil Painting and recently Encaustics . She owned and operated a small Art Boutique in the Greenwich Village in NYC called the “Sunwise Turn” .

Her artwork is mostly “Lyrical Abstraction” a movement that began in the late 1960s and 70s, following the challenge of Minimalism and Conceptual art. She began with abstract painting, but began to use the primacy of line and color in her work that incorporated principles of design rather than a visual representation.

The medium Arlene uses is Encaustic, a mixture of beeswax and resin. Encaustic painting dates back over 2000 years and is still relevant and exciting today. The quality of the material is very much alive, like an organic skin, and can hold color in a pure, luminous tone and reveals a subtlety rarely found in artificially manufactured materials. The delicate beauty of nature is inherent in her works.

Attending and showing in the International Encaustics Conference in Provincetown, MA since 2015, she has developed new Encaustic techniques including monotypes, powdered pigments, graphite and burning shellac.

Rhode Island’s natural beauty are currently her themes in progress.

See More of Arlene’s Work Here

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