Beyond Paint

November 2026 · Opening November 6 · First Friday Art Walk Beyond Paint Elizabeth Hilton  ·  Andy McConnell  ·  Tamera Abaté November 6, 2026 — December 3, 2026 Bainbridge Island  ·  Park City Virtual  ·  Worldwide OPENING NOVEMBER 6 Collector Portal Beyond Paint — November 6, 2026 The Exhibition The show's proposition is direct: painting is not the only way to make a mark, and the most serious work being made in studios right now is frequently happening outside the conventions of painting as a medium. Elizabeth Hilton's large-format layered surfaces, Andy McConnell's carved cedar constructions, Tamera Abaté's thirty-layer encaustic panels. These are practices where the material is the subject — where what the work is made of is inseparable from what the work is about.

Wax holds differently than oil. Cedar carries different weight than canvas. The work cannot be made in another material without becoming a different work.

Beyond Paint is an argument for the seriousness of material investigation as a primary artistic mode. The Artists Elizabeth Hilton · Andy McConnell · Tamera Abaté View All Artists → Elizabeth Hilton Mixed Media · Large Format · Layered Surfaces Hilton builds large-format works from accumulated layers of material — paint, paper, fabric, graphite, wax — that record the process of their own making. Her surfaces hold geological depth: the evidence of decisions made over months visible in cross-section at the edges.

View Biography → Andy McConnell Reclaimed Cedar · Oral History For Beyond Paint, McConnell returns with the works that anchor the gallery's argument about what mixed media practice looks like at its most serious — structures built from salvaged old-growth cedar that carry the memory of demolished Puget Sound buildings. View Biography → Tamera Abaté Encaustic · Beeswax · 30-Layer Process Abaté's encaustic panels require thirty or more layers of beeswax fused with heat. Each layer alters every one before it.