Clare Woods
dal 21/10/2011 al 28/1/2012
Segnalato da
21/10/2011
Clare Woods
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
The Unquiet Head. The exhibition explores her interest in the power and history of rock formations in the British landscape, and its various manifestations in the works of different artists. Her paintings are often visually ambiguous and claustrophobic, combining abstraction and controlled figuration.
This new exhibition by Clare Woods will explore her interest in the power and history of rock formations in the British landscape, and its various manifestations in the works of artists such as Hepworth, Moore, Sutherland, Piper and Nash. Her large-scale paintings (approximately 10 metres in length) use layers of enamel paint on aluminium. The paintings are often visually ambiguous and claustrophobic in their detail, combining abstraction and controlled figuration, held together by webs of paint and luscious reflective surfaces.
Clare Woods graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1999. She has exhibited in the UK, Europe and America. Recent exhibitions include The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall; Monuments with a horizon line II, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin; Watercolours, Buchmann Box, Berlin; Cemetery Bends, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid.
The Unquiet Head features a catalogue with essays by Simon Wallis (Director The Hepworth Wakefield), Chris Stephens (Head of Displays Tate Britain) and Michael Bracewell.
Supported by the Audrey & Stanley Burton Charitable Trust
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The Hepworth Wakefield
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