Across His Lovely Skin
Mixed media on paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 29.5 " x 29.5 " x 1.5"
Breath Of Empty Space
Mixed media on gray toned paper flat , 30 " x 30"
Distant Memories
Mixed media on paper, flat 22.25 " x 22.25 "
Dreams Will Have Their Way
Mixed media on paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 59 " x 59 " x 2.25"
Elusive Enough
Mixed media on paper 22.25 " x 22.25 "
Fragments Of His Body
Mixed media on paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 29.5 " x 29.5 " x 1.5"
Illicit Pleasure
Mixed media on gray toned paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 29.5 " x 29.5 " x 1.5"
Not Knowing
Mixed media on paper 22.25 " x 22.25 "
Process Of Discovery
Mixed media on paper 22.25 " x 22.25 "
Projected Desire
Mixed media on gray toned paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 29.5 " x 29.5 " x 1.5"
Reason For His Appetite
Mixed media on gray toned paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 29.5 " x 29.5 " x 1.5"
Repectful Attentiion
Mixed media on gray toned paper flat, 30 " x 30"
Scattering Affections
Mixed media on paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 47.75 " x 47.75 " x 2.25"
Show Me What Happens
Mixed media on paper mounted on panel with cold wax varnish 29.5 " x 29.5 " x 1.5"
Slow Delicious Process
Mixed media on gray toned paper flat, 30 " x 30"
John Wood (b. 1945, Utah) is a Bay Area artist who currently resides with his husband in Emeryville, CA. He received his BFA in painting from the University of Utah in 1971, and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1974. Wood’s abstract imagery is the culmination of his lifetime of work in art. His current work uses the human form as a starting point to build up layers of line, form and color in graphite, crayon, oil pastel and enamel. He strives to be as open and engaged as possible with the developing image, trusting that the art will lead him in the right direction. In the end, the work alludes to the human body symbolically, but Woods is much more interested in the emotional and sensual qualities that emerge rather than recognizable forms.
In addition to producing his own art, Woods has inspired many through independent mural projects with children of all ages in Utah, New York, and California. He has taught at Cranbrook Academy Museum, through the NEA Artist-in-Education Program, as a private instructor for children’s art in New York and Salt Lake City, as a drawing and painting instructor at Farmington Community Center, and as head of the fine arts department at Judge Memorial Catholic High School in Salt Lake City. Woods has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States including Utah, New York, California, Colorado; and museums such as the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Springville Museum of Art, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum. His work can be found in public and private collections across the country such as American Express Company, Salt Lake City, UT, Amoco Production Company, Denver, CO, Bank of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Digital Equipment Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT, Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, UT, McKay-Dee Hospital, Ogden, UT, Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, Salt Lake City, UT, Rich Passage Winery, Bainbridge Island, WA, St. Olaf’s Parish Church, Bountiful, UT, Saint Paul’s School, Clearwater, FL, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Valley Home Medical, Layton, UT, E M Warburg Pincus, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA, and many more.
Artist Statement
“I am searching for the sublime — the moments when an image, a sound, an emotion transport me. My interests are in the sensual, seductive qualities in life and I try to convey these ideas through my work.
Images often come to me from observing nature. I am touched by the delicate change of fading blossoms, moved by the almost painful intensity of a mahler symphonic line and mesmerized by the beauty of a partner’s body.
I watch for those times when my work becomes as powerful and poetic as the world around me and capable of touching me as deeply.”
