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Dorothy Masom
My career was off and running!
In 1990, internationally known art
critic, the late Clement Greenburg,
awarded me “Best in Show” at
The Pennsylvania Painters Show,
Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
PA. I was asked, along with Ann
Huffman, to co-host the Second
International Encaustics Convention
at Susquehanna University.
Ann had invented the encaustic
pen and other tools. She later
wrote her book Enkaustikos!,
in which I wrote a guest article.
Paintings by artists working in
encaustics were exhibited at the
convention and the convention
was a huge success. It introduced
many artists to the world
of wax painting.
In 1984, my 15 Stations of the
Cross paintings won an international
award from the Interfaith
Forum of Religious Art and Architecture.
These paintings traveled
to many different churches,
including St. Peter’s Church in
New York, the Washington Theological
Union Church in Washington,
D.C. and finally made their
home in the Church of the Good
Shepherd in Tequesta, Florida.
For the Selinsgrove Center, Selinsgrove,
Pa, I created seven foot
high encaustic murals which
caused me to use a ladder and
a long extension cord. Another
mural, 6’ by 6’, was done for
Susquehanna University and
appears in their library.
Reflections, 36” x 36”, 2010. This painting was a scene I noticed while
living in my home in South Carolina. I was struck by the way the pots of
flowers looked in the setting sun and the reflection that occurred on my
glass coffee table. I am always amazed and awed by unusual things that
happen to ordinary objects and try to capture the moment and feeling of
awe in a painting.
28
Summer
Woodside Pond, 36” x 36”, 1990. Won best of the show. The pond painting
was done while I lived in Sussex, NJ. The pond was an inspiration to me as
I looked at it every day from my studio. I painted the 36” x 36” masonite
board with dark orange and fixed it by fusing and then proceeded to add
all the wonderful fall colors.
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