Vortex Up
2014
Oil and Encaustic on Panel
30x36x2 inches
The Vortex Series -
The Vortex series is a meeting of opposing energies; a swirling confrontation where polar opposites meet. They wrestle, waiting for the balance to tip, as when a world balances on its axis and slowly tips to the other side. With the mindset of a realist, I envision a world filled with energies. Whether these energies be Intellectual, emotional or physical, there is that tipping point where both repulsive challenge and attractive synergy simultaneously occur. My exploration is both physical and contemplative. The encaustic and oilpaint, reflect my keen interest an authenticity-of-materials; the heating/cooling nature of wax-working embodies this fluid sense of co-existence between the light of powerful, balanced energy and the vast darkness of the void.
The Vortex series is a meeting of opposing energies; a swirling confrontation where polar opposites meet. They wrestle, waiting for the balance to tip, as when a world balances on its axis and slowly tips to the other side. With the mindset of a realist, I envision a world filled with energies. Whether these energies be Intellectual, emotional or physical, there is that tipping point where both repulsive challenge and attractive synergy simultaneously occur. My exploration is both physical and contemplative. The encaustic and oilpaint, reflect my keen interest an authenticity-of-materials; the heating/cooling nature of wax-working embodies this fluid sense of co-existence between the light of powerful, balanced energy and the vast darkness of the void.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.