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The Curator Gallery is pleased to present 180°, Encaustic in Contemporary Art, curated by Nancy Hubbard and featuring the work of Bryan Christie, Betsy Eby, Margaret Noel, Lisa Pressman, and Alex Schuchard. The exhibit explores a wide range of the current use of encaustic, an ancient wax-based process.

From the ancient Fayum mummy portraits of Roman Egypt to the iconic American flags painted by Jasper Johns in the 1950s, encaustic painting endured a long, dormant history and only experienced a revival in the mid to late twentieth century with the advent of electric heating tools.

Meaning “to …