Kay Wood
Wood’s recent works continues her interest in ontology, especially that of art objects. Paintings are combined in arrangements that also include a variety of readymade and handcrafted things. There are evident imperfections, irregularities, flawed techniques and mundane materials sitting askew.
This continuation of dialogue with the world of things through her practice is Wood’s feeling that we are bound by our condition to try to engage with the world and understand it but, paradoxically, this is actually not possible – we do not own things, we do not actually know them – despite the names and function we give them. All her works can be seen as quasi independent entities exhibiting a certain inwardness that withdraws behind the visible qualities and cannot be explained.
Wood's artistic influences range from Jean-Simeon Chardin, to Giorgio Morandi, Thomas Nozkowski, Gunter Forg, Jessica Stockholder and Amy Sillman (to name a few). Kay Wood studied at Sydney College of the Arts and has a BVA (Hons) and an MVA. She also has a BA (Hons) from Deakin University. Prior to her return to Perth in 2005 Kay had had fourteen solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Curriculum Vitae
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Exhibitions
- Sat 17 Jul - Sat 07 Aug 2021 'Ensemble 1' - A new annual group exhibition of selected STALA CONTEMPORARY represented artists
Artists featured:
Ayad Alqaragholli | Di Cubitt | Marcia Espinosa | Kathryn Haug | Michelle Hyland | Adam Hisham Ismail | Meredith Jackson | Shana James | Sue Leeming | William Leggett | Jarrad Martyn | Angela McHarrie | Britt Mikkelsen | Scott Robson | Wade Taylor | Kay Wood
- Wed 19 May - Sat 05 Jun 2021 'She Smiles Like a River - A Personal Cosmology' - Kay Wood
Referencing her childhood in rural Western Australia, Kay Wood's new body of work explores structural narratives of identity and deploys abstraction to unearth alternative readings of self and value.
The latest work retrieves materials and concerns last seen in Wood’s work twenty years ago. Ranging from fibreglass to hessian, cardboard, expanding foam and paint, ‘She Smiles Like a River - A Personal Cosmology’ is a continuum of Wood’s creative endeavour to remain fully present and engaged with the process of making - in the moment - where past, present and future all co-exist.
- Wed 19 Aug - Wed 09 Sep 2020 'Expectation and Other Ironies' - Guest Artist Kay Wood
STALA CONTEMPORARY proudly presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Kay Wood, continuing her dichotomous exploration of abstraction and representation. A gestural and expressive rawness permeates both her varied abstract motifs and the deliberately minimalised depictions of the figurative forms which sit companionably alongside them.
Kay Wood studied at Sydney College of the Arts and has a BVA (Hons) and an MVA. She also has a BA (Hons) from Deakin University. Kay grew up in country Western Australia. Prior to her return to Perth in 2005 Kay had had fourteen solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Works
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KAY WOOD - Rooms Of The Magnificent Asterism (1-26) (installation view)
mixed media 2021, dimensions variable (1-26) (available individually) Call for pricing
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KAY WOOD - The Ragman Draws Circles Asterism (installation view)
mixed media 2021, dimensions variable (available individually) NFS (not for sale)
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