View Graceann Warn's encaustic work

Graceann Warn is an artist of startling agility. Her works implore us to see and understand via a wordless dialogue our common experience, feelings and mystery. The artist describes her work in the following statement.

"The art I make combines elements of beauty and classical form with an underlying sense of mystery that (hopefully) compels you to look at it over and over again. While the pieces reflect my obsession with logic and numerical rationales, I try to infuse a lyricism within the multiple layers of paint and paper that comprise them. Albert Einstein once said 'Once I understand what something is, I don’t have to think about it anymore.'

I never want my work to be that finite.

"My work has always been about process as well as finished product. My labor in the studio is reflected in the surfaces of my paintings so that the human element is revealed and apparent.

"Lately I believe more than ever that humans cannot deny their need for something authentic –even sublime- to inspire and transport them. Art can do that."

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