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Elizabeth Wood

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Renewal (Triptych) 2018

Visual Art

My art practice has been largely text-based and my approach frequently involves the appropriation and re-assembly of evocative words and phrases from art history, literature, opera and popular culture. I am drawn to reshaping those historical materials, already rich with meaning, in order to release and extend their potential to generate multiple layers of interpretation in fresh conceptual and emotional contexts. I believe that the themes I pursue fit naturally within public spaces, the arena in which the contrast between the outside world and our inner selves is most profound. Virginia Woolf captures the essential sentiment in the phrase: “the feeling of solitude-on-display that the sidewalk encourages”.

Visual Art

My art practice has been largely text-based and my approach frequently involves the appropriation and re-assembly of evocative words and phrases from art history, literature, opera and popular culture. I am drawn to reshaping those historical materials, already rich with meaning, in order to release and extend their potential to generate multiple layers of interpretation in fresh conceptual and emotional contexts. I believe that the themes I pursue fit naturally within public spaces, the arena in which the contrast between the outside world and our inner selves is most profound. Virginia Woolf captures the essential sentiment in the phrase: “the feeling of solitude-on-display that the sidewalk encourages”.

Renewal (Triptych) 2018

Renewal (Triptych) 2018

In this art piece I have digitally reworked images of paintings made by women in the 1600s.   Together they are meant to resemble the 3 panels of a Japanese screen.

My Cézanne (2017)

My Cézanne (2017)

This image is a composite of 3 paintings by Paul Cézanne which have been digitally re-worked to create a singular and distinctive contemporary art image. 

Digital image printed on aluminum.  30" X 30"

My Gauguin (2017)

My Gauguin (2017)

This image is a composite of 3 paintings by Paul Gauguin which have been digitally re-worked to create a singular and distinctive contemporary art image.

My Van Gogh (2017)

My Van Gogh (2017)

This image is a composite of 3 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh which have been digitally re-worked to create a singular and distinctive contemporary art image.

All My Sorrows 2013 (installation view)

All My Sorrows 2013 (installation view)

All My Sorrows (Detail)

All My Sorrows (Detail)

Paper & Acrylic Paint, 2013, each part 12.5cm x 6.5cm 

The Newborn Child

The Newborn Child

Marble Blocks, 2008, 6cm x 44cm x 6cm 

Portrait of My Son as Polyphemus 2008

Portrait of My Son as Polyphemus 2008

From the opera Acis and Galatea

Cut and painted aluminum text. Dimensions variable.

Softer (Asilah, Morocco) 2015

Softer (Asilah, Morocco) 2015

From the Softer series, 2015, digital photo with text

Softer (Naples, Italy) 2015

Softer (Naples, Italy) 2015

From the Softer series, 2015, digital photo with text

In the Darkness

In the Darkness

From the series "Re-visiting the Romantics", 2015, Digital photo with text, size variable

Morning in the Mountains

Morning in the Mountains

From the series "Re-visiting the Romantics), 2015, Digital photo with text, size variable