Installation on view through October 2020
foam, push pins, fake flowers and succulents, thread, tinsel, candles
Ann Wood was born and raised in Northern California. Wood received a BFA in Art with an emphasis on painting and drawing from California State University at Chico. She earned an MFA in painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She works consistently in both two and three dimensions, including site-specific installation.
Wood’s upbringing in Northern California plays a large part in her work. Her mother was a florist for the San Francisco flower market; her father’s family owned and ran one of the largest ranches in Northern California. Nature and the cycle of life and death were a big part of her formative years. In college she developed a passion for art history–specifically Rococo and Baroque works. In her current work, these two influences combine with a guilt-ridden love of craft store kitsch.
Wood’s work has been included in exhibitions at venues across Texas and the United States including The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum (San Antonio), and Anya Tish Gallery (Houston). Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at Big Medium (Austin), the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont), Galveston Arts Center, Lawndale Art Center (Houston), Women and Their Work, (Austin), The University Art Gallery at Dartmouth (Massachusetts), and Kirk Hopper Fine Art (Dallas). She had site-specific installations featured at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair in 2012 and 2013. In 2018 she was invited to participate in Sculpture Month Houston at the Silos at Sawyer Yard where she installed a site-specific working fountain in one of the silos. She has also shown internationally at Centro Cultural Border in Mexico City.
Wood’s work has been reviewed in several publications and online forums including Glasstire, The Austin Chronicle, The
Houston Chronicle, and The Dallas Morning News. In 2010 she was interviewed on NPR’s The Front Row arts radio show and in 2013 she was one of 6 Houston artists featured in the Houston publication PaperCity Magazine as up and coming creatives to watch. Her exhibition Violent Delights at Women and their Work was declared one of the top 10 art moments in Austin for 2012 by both the Austin Chronicle and the Austinist. In October of 2018, her exhibition Quick and Quiet at Big Medium in Austin was featured on Glasstire’s Top 5 list as one of the top 5 exhibitions in Texas for that period. In December of the same year, Quick and Quiet was declared one of the top 10 art events in Austin during 2018 by the Austin Chronicle. She has received two grants from the Dallas Museum of Art.
Wood lives and works in Galveston, Texas.
