April 2024
Dana Patterson Roth: Layers of Memory
Exhibition dates March 26 - April 28, 2024
Reception: Saturday, April 13, 1-3 pm
First Sunday ARTScrawl Meet the Artist, 10 am - 2 pm
Never content with one style of photography, Dana Patterson Roth has recently been exploring encaustic photography; a process of applying hot beeswax onto an image. That is the focus of Layers of Memory. There is something about the wax, the way it looks and feels, that awakens senses beyond sight and adds new depth and meaning to an image. Pigments, textures and objects are incorporated into the layers of beeswax, as other parts are scraped away. Much as we live our lives – creating new memories, holding onto some and letting others fade away.
Born and raised in New Mexico and a long-time Placitas resident, Roth fell in love with photography at the age of ten. She has studied photography and painting at UNM, the Santa Fe Photography Workshop and other venues. Beginning with black and white photography, Dana embraced color when she switched to digital cameras and began to let go of her self-imposed rules and traditional guidelines. She now works in both black and white and color and loves exploring new ways a camera can be used or new ways an image can be created. Dana shows yearly in the Placitas Studio Tour and the Placitas Holiday Market. She helped found Wild Hearts Gallery in 2018, is on the Placitas Studio Tour Board and served on the board of the Placitas Holiday Sale. |
“I am still and may always be in the experimental stage. I love choosing an image and then listening to it, letting it guide me. With encaustic photography I can add wax, colors, texture, or even objects to a photograph, to emphasize certain features, or scrape away parts. I think this is what I do with life sometimes: remembering and even re-interpreting moments of my life, hanging onto what seems most important to me, while letting other parts fade away or be obscured by time.”
The artist’s reception will be celebrated with fellowship and refreshments on Saturday April 13 from 1-3 p.m.
A First Sunday ARTScrawl Meet the Artist event kicks off the month on April 7, 10 am to 2 pm. Come by for a
cup of specialty coffee and visit. You can also take a visual tour of this exhibit.
Below: one of Dana's new photoencaustics - "Autumn Encore" View all the work in the exhibit in our virtual tour.
The artist’s reception will be celebrated with fellowship and refreshments on Saturday April 13 from 1-3 p.m.
A First Sunday ARTScrawl Meet the Artist event kicks off the month on April 7, 10 am to 2 pm. Come by for a
cup of specialty coffee and visit. You can also take a visual tour of this exhibit.
Below: one of Dana's new photoencaustics - "Autumn Encore" View all the work in the exhibit in our virtual tour.
Download our new brochure with information on all the featured artists shows January through June 2024 as pdf files below.
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