Last night at the Mary C art opening for three artists working with wax, encaustic, I was my mother's daughter, enjoying being more anonymous and proud to be the sculptor's progeny. Then again I was also Rudy's daughter; and Rudy's bar has quite a reputation - folks adore Rudy. He is a very social gadfly; happy with anyone who comes into the bar, greeting people as if it were his home - which in a sense it is an extension of.
one of the artists in the show, Judith Burks, works in the 9th ward, and has wonderful protraits of friends and of her former students. Her use of wax was the most subtle; it gave depth to the protraits and a surface texture to the flesh. Kat Fitzpatrick works with bees, has brought bees back to Bay St Louis - her abstracts of imagined hive and imagined magnified flower parts have a built up wax surface.
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