INTERSECTIONS

LIC Gallery • SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
November 4th - November 29th

Opening reception Nov. 7th • 1-3 pm

908 Alaskan Way Suite B, Seattle, WA

My work explores navigation: how we locate ourselves, interpret patterns, and find our way through change. Over the past decade, my practice has moved in cadence with scientific discoveries, drawing on environmental science, celestial navigation, satellite imagery, and space travel.

Intersections brings together bodies of work that connect receding glaciers, celestial movement, currents, and the trajectories of colliding particles. These subjects become an evolving visual language of circles, intersecting lines, and shifting fields.

VISIT THE EXHIBITION PAGE HERE

Using encaustic, an ancient painting medium made with pigmented beeswax, I give physical form to contemporary scientific imagery and ideas. This intersection between an ancient, analog process and technologies that reveal our world grounds the work. Layered wax and oil translate satellite perspectives, particle trajectories, and orbital paths into tactile surfaces, holding traces of movement and change.

Sally Hirst Interview

Sally is offering a class soon in the UK utilizing all of Elise’s techniques and also Wagner Collagraph Wax.

In this conversation, Elise Wagner sits down with Sally Hirst, a Norwich-based painter, printmaker, and teacher known for her fearlessly experimental approach to printmaking. Working across collagraphy, drypoint, and monotype, Sally treats each print as a one-of-a-kind piece built in layers, embracing risk, chance, and reinvention over editions and repetition. She's also recently brought Wagner Collagraph Wax into her own studio practice and teaching, which makes this a genuine meeting of kindred spirits. Over the course of their talk, the two artists trade ideas on process, materials, and the restless curiosity that keeps their work evolving, a warm, generous exchange between two printmakers who love to push at the edges of what a print can be.

Video: In Conversation with
Elise Wagner

**Elise talks at Maryhill Museum of Art about her Celestial Currents exhibition in July, 2025.**

“Rooted in both scientific inquiry and metaphysical wonder, Wagner’s work offers a visual language for contemplating the rhythms of the universe. Each piece serves as a meditation on scale, time, and transformation, inviting viewers to consider their place within a broader, ever-evolving cosmos.

This exhibition invites reflection on the harmony between precision and unpredictability, structure and fluidity – offering a space where scientific knowledge and poetic intuition coalesce.”