Wood Fay | Assemblage | Found Objects Art
Art using found objects has attracted Wood since about 1965, when she was living in the San Francisco Bay area and saw the large sculptures made from found objects lying on the edges of the Bay. They were fantastic, noisy, beautiful works with a great sense of humor and form…. She has never forgotten them. As an art student at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Wood began studying painting, but on meeting Jasmine Saunders, a local Berkshire County sculptor, who encouraged her to carve directly in wood, she began what has become a deep love for sculpture and found object assemblage. In 1992, having a permanent studio in the Hudson Valley of New York, she began combining objects with the carvings she had been doing – and has never stopped.
Oil on Canvas. 91.4 x 91.44 cm
Wood uses vintage wood objects, has a series using metal, and has found pleasure in layering found rag paper over metal and wire armatures and adding interesting bits and pieces to the mix. She tends to be a traditionalist in that she likes to do works that have permanence and are unique, and she follows a quote by Virginia Woolf…” Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” She paints on canvas and reverse glass and creates tapestries with found objects. Because Wood moved to a new studio and had difficulty adjusting to the space she wanted to use for drawing, she abandoned drawing and began to make collages from a large collection of found materials she had amassed over the years.
Found Object Assemblage.
90.17 x 48.26 x 30.48 cm
Right: Pope Joan. 1994.
Found Object Assemblage.
91.44 x 40.64 x 39.37 cm
Wood has an extensive exhibition history, including a prize-winning sculpture in one of the National Sculpture Society’s annual exhibitions, as well as the Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy, in which she has been invited to participate in 2019, 2021,& 2023as well as having been selected for the “TIME, SPACE, EXISTENCE” exhibition Hosted by the European Cultural Centre as part of the 2023 Venice Architectural Biennale in Venice, Italy. Wood has also been invited to be a featured artist representing “Artrepreneur” (an online artist’s website) in a film to be shown worldwide on PBS and has won three of their in-house competitions.
Found Object Assemblage.
53.34 x 43.18 x 43.18 cm
In late summer 2020, she joined the Saugerties Artists Studio Tour online. Also, in 2022, she was interviewed about her work published in the Nov./Dec. Issue of Private Air Magazine and an article in Art Market magazine for March 2023, # 78. In 2024, two other articles were published in Private Air Magazine, written by Robert Langdon of Emerge Gallery and Janice Weber. Wood is being represented in Miami, Fla, & online by Galeria Azur.
In the fall, she will move her studio to Greensboro, N. Carolina.
See the full article in the GOLD LIST Special Edition #8
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