Artist Explores The Jungles Of Kentucky
Bethany Kalk practically sculpts her paintings.
Walking into Gallery 360's main exhibition space, you're momentarily taken aback by the work currently hanging on the walls. Wispy, blue-black trees rise skyward over an Appalachian lake, like so many leafy tentacles. Gnarled roots surge around roadside boulders, creating a fantasia of shadows. More arresting than the drama and haunting beauty of Bethany Kalk's work, though, is its depth, achieved using encaustic—a technique combining layered, colored wax and paint, charcoal, and other two-dimensional materials. Those same quivering trees rise off the panel, while branches and flowers sink into the background behind layers of translucent wax. Details of Angkor Wat-like roots, and the rocks beneath them, are physically etched into the …
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