colored wax

“We want to advance a future where Africa participates more fully in global food and fertilizer markets and supply chains,” Yellen said as farmers, mostly women wearing brightly colored wax cloth dresses, stood and listened.

Among the man-made materials are the black wires that Kirsty Little twists into dynamic forms and tips with colored wax, and the extruded plastic filament that Liz Lescault weaves into netlike hangings.

Thek shaped and colored wax to simulate chunks of raw meat, which he combined with steel, as in the cables, or more often enclosed in plexiglass boxes.

It’s especially visible in colored pencil drawings like “Glass Cloth,” an image of a clear tumbler on a red and white dish towel in which you see the grain of paper and of colored wax conspiring to create images of gauzy luminosity.

Weiss makes spirals of colored wax, which protrude from the canvas in the “Disruptions” series or are cut into cross-sections that evoke models of muscle and skin.