Brian Wood
Brian Wood (Born Canada, 1948), is a visual artist working with multiple media of photography, painting, drawing and print-making in New York City.
Biography
Brian Wood was born in Saskatoon in central Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up on a family farm in northern Saskatchewan (Brancepeth). He received a B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1969, in math, physics and literature. Shortly after receiving this degree he moved to New York City and made paintings.
During the next few years, he traveled and worked in Europe, spending much of his time in Greece. Wood made his first painting commission for Lord Byron's Chambers in The Albany in London in 1972 and exhibited his first prints at Redfern Gallery, London. Returning to New York, Wood began attending graduate school at Hunter College, where he studied painting from 1972 to 1975. While studying, he worked as a studio assistant to the painters Adolph Gottlieb and Ralph Humphrey, and received an M.A. in Studio Art from Hunter College. At Hunter, he met Hollis Frampton and became interested in film. He also met Michael Snow and crewed on Snow's film Rameau's Nephew (based on Denis Diderot's 1762 text Le Neveu de Rameau]. Wood made the films Clearview and Fixt in 1974-1975, working closely with Hollis Frampton, and Clearview was first screened at Film Forum in New York in 1975.
Wood's early work was influenced by Hollis Frampton and Michael Snow, and like them, he continued his explorations in multiple media. In 1976 Wood developed his ideas in works constructed of multiple photographs. His very early photographic pieces, "Facing", 1976 (Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC) and "Array", 1977 (Collection: Museum of Modern Art, NYC) were first exhibited in 1978 at the Whitney Museum (Downtown), New York, in an exhibition called "Frameworks" . Galerie Marielle Mailhot, Montreal, gave Wood his first solo show of photographs in 1979, soon followed by several solo museum exhibitions including the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, and Ydessa Hendeles did a solo Wood exhibition in Toronto in 1980. The Canada Council first awarded Arts Grants to Brian Wood in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1982.
Brian Wood was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1999 in two categories, photography and graphics, recongnizing his work in print-making as well as photography.
Work
James Casebere says in an article in the Spring 2006 issue of BOMB Magazine, New York, "Wood's works are biological, anatomical, spiritual and erotic." Further on in the article Casebere states, "all this work seems to result from a deep internal investigation of the brain via the trauma of the body. And this mind body unity at the core of Wood's work reveals a cataclysmic trauma of spiritual proportions."
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