Mark Perlman
A Professor of art at California State University Sonoma Mark Perlman has exhibited his luminous encaustic paintings in the Bay Area as well as through out the United States over the last twenty five years. He has also exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, The Manege Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Moscow Central Museum.
Perlman works in the medium of encaustic, pigment mixed with hot wax the oldest form of painting in civilization going back to Egyptian tombs of the Old Kingdom.
The paintings are built up layer over layer to create what the artist call 鈥渢he under belly a luminous field of mid tone color upon which he composes his imagery ranging from organic pictoglyphic references that subtly suggest ancient cave art to sharply geometric map like compositions.
A Professor of art at California State University Sonoma Mark Perlman has exhibited his luminous encaustic paintings in the Bay Area as well as through out the United States over the last twenty five years. He has also exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, The Manege Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Moscow Central Museum.
Perlman works in the medium of encaustic, pigment mixed with hot wax the oldest form of painting in civilization going back to Egyptian tombs of the Old Kingdom.
The paintings are built up layer over layer to create what the artist call 鈥渢he under belly a luminous field of mid tone color upon which he composes his imagery ranging from organic pictoglyphic references that subtly suggest ancient cave art to sharply geometric map like compositions.
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