Earl Schofield’s Encaustics Featured at Sharon Arts Gallery for June
Nonprofit Sharon Arts Gallery is pleased to announce Earl Schofield of Antrim, NH, as our featured juried artist for the month of June 2011 (through the 30th). An artist, and full-time educator at Dublin School, Earl specializes in encaustic painting- a medium and process that combines pigment and wax to create textured paintings with great depth. The artist has selected a series of works to display which he calls the “Ephemera Series.”
“I Can’t Name this Painting” Encaustic on Panel by Earl Schofield.
“The Ephemera series attempts to find ways for the viewer to engage the portrait with some of the freedom from narrative and the specificity of the individual that is found in my landscape work. The series is a loving homage to my family as much as it is a ‘momento mori’….. They mimic the transience of image and ourselves and they reference the slipperiness and imperfection of memory,” explained Schofield.
“It is always a pleasure to feature the work of such a highly developed and decidedly accomplished local artist. Earl’s beautifully rendered encaustic paintings are engaging not only in their technical execution but also in their conceptual and thematic content. It is exceedingly rare to see an artist develop so many interesting and varied series of works,” commented Alex Cahoon, SAC’s Assistant Gallery Manager.
More information is available at 603-924-2787 or www.earlschofield.com
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About Sharon Arts
The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.
Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square.
The Sharon Arts Craft Store is located in Depot Square, Peterborough, NH and is open Monday through Saturday, 10am-6pm and Sunday 11am – 5pm.
Sharon Arts Center is sponsored in part by The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, The Putnam Foundation and art lovers like you!