Encaustics

One of Chris May's most unique qualities as an artist is his ability to cross the right-brain technical world with the left-brain artistic world. Chris has first-hand experience as an artist on the changing and unknown edge of photography as it has moved into the digital age. This change in photography has brought technology and the art world together in ways that no has been able to predict. Chris' graduate school studies and artwork centered around how humans and technology both meld and resist each other. Chris' artistic experiences have culminated in a series of encaustic pieces incorporating psuedo-medical science, digital imagery, organic shapes and textures, and natural and man-made materials melted within layers of wax and color. These pieces are a unique exploration of the relationship of nature, beauty and aesthetics with technology and science.