Built from layers of beeswax, damar resin and pigment, Lauren Glad’s encaustic paintings are fused and transformed with fire. Each surface is built, burned, carved and scraped back, allowing what lies beneath to emerge.

WHAT BREAKS THROUGH explores that same process beyond the materials: the layers we build, what happens when they give way, and what is revealed underneath.

SAMANTHA

Seven panels, each 72 x 6

Encaustic + mixed media, 2026