Artist Registry

David Wood

David Wood. “Angel Spiral” David Wood. “Yucatan Mirror Image” David Wood. “Spiral Resonance”

Contact information

david.c.wood@vanderbilt.edu
sites.google.com/site/yellowbirdonline/

Artist statement

My work falls roughly into seven categories:

  1. Earth Art – including Land Scaping, working directly on the land, usually on a large scale: Spiral Resonance Field, Angel Spiral, Spiral Garden, Figure-of-8 Lakes.
  2. Traditional Sculptural Construction: The Conversation, The Kiss, Geometree.
  3. Displaced Framing of Found Objects – both natural and manufactured: Truck Farm, Timestone and other reframed rocks.
  4. Photographic Images – as ways of recording transient events, as transformations of things, and (digitally manipulated) as a medium in their own right: ArtWash, (Under)Water Table, Fire Rite, BearScapes.
  5. Hybrid/Conceptual Art – in which some or all of the completed work happens in the imagination: Time Capsules, aka the Chronopod series: Warwick, Sydney, Woodbury, Helsinki, and Kyoto. FRAMES: A Virtual Exhibition of Conceptual Art, Mirror Infractions in the Yucatan (Smithson). Yellow Bird Sculpture Park is arguably a hybrid/conceptual Gesamtkunstwerk.
  6. In Modo Geometrico – two dimensional overlapping color plane designs.
  7. Virtual Art - art projects described/imagined/sketched but not completed: Body Count, Abattoir Witness, Chronopod in Sao Paulo National Museum, Lihou Drowned Flowers (Channel Islands).

While this work may seem eclectic, it all seeks to engage with, to stage and to dramatize the constitutive antinomies of our experience. It takes up the play between matter and idea, thing and frame, action and event, object and representation, perception and imagination, space and time. Art can explore and develop these tensions in ways that philosophy cannot. Making art draws me into new questions, and into old questions posed in different and compelling ways.

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(Information last updated: 27 August 2009)

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