Wayne Montecalvo
About Wayne
Wayne Montecalvo is a multi-disciplinary artist who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He currently lives and maintains his studio in Rosendale, New York. Montecalvo’s work has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions at The Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper, Yamakawa, Tokushima, Japan; Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY; and CHRCH Project Space, Cottekill, NY. From 1998-2013 Wayne worked in the Art Department at the State University of New York, New Paltz campus, and taught as an adjunct employee from 2010-2013. From 2014- and currently, works as a freelance artist from his own studio. From 2017-2022 Wayne also worked as a prop builder for PRG Technologies, New Windsor, NY. Additional teaching and related experience include R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY. Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. The Printmaking Center at the College of Santa Fe, NM. Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY. Studio Joy, Kansas City, MO. Mount Everett Regional school, Scheffield, MA. The Draw, Kingston, NY, The Woodstock School of Art, and Studio E, San de Allende, Mexico.
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Other Ways to Use Encaustic.
The video will highlight methods to use encaustic with mixed media. Although most of my work involves photographic and digital printing, the video will explain how I combine thin Japanese papers, collaging methods, India ink, pencil, stained surfaces, acrylic paint, water color, gold & silver leaf, transfer foil, charcoal, digital images, mark making, and more with encaustic. I will also include ways to work on panels, paper, glass, and Plexiglas using encaustic. My interest lies in pushing a material to see what it will do, and incorporating “work around” methods to make unlikely materials cooperate with art making. I am open to the idea of learning what will work and what won’t work, and to what degree each of those outcomes can be useful for art making.
