Artist's Biography
BIO - Industrial Photo Composite Art
West Coast artist Sheila Wood uses her industrial photos to begin the intuitive and spontaneous digital process. Many layers of photos are composited, letting the abstract combine with the real. Ideas of conflict, simplicity, humor and a love of painting seem apparent in her expressive works. They play with our modern dual relationship with industry, technology and the environment.
Painters such as Matisse and Brice Marden, and photographers such as Hilla and Bernd Becher have been an inspiration, as well as many current artists that combine technologies, styles and materials.
She has exhibited her work locally and online with LACDA, LA Center for Digital Arts and SIGMA Photographer’s Forum Magazine.
Painters such as Matisse and Brice Marden, and photographers such as Hilla and Bernd Becher have been an inspiration, as well as many current artists that combine technologies, styles and materials.
She has exhibited her work locally and online with LACDA, LA Center for Digital Arts and SIGMA Photographer’s Forum Magazine.
BIO - Minimal Photo Art
Sheila Wood is a CA artist whose minimal photography features textures, patterns, shadows and surfaces taken from the urban landscape and old factories. Her subjects, often awash with grays, are small sections of objects, whether stairways, bent metal, walls, or the surface of garbage cans and roads. While in Italy, her photos of walls caught history in their beautifully repainted colors, markings, graffiti, and age. Her unique minimalist style has an aesthetic of the urban photographer without the surrounding scene.
BIO - Painting & Drawing
Sheila Wood began her love of painting walking the halls of Chicago’s Art Institute. Moving to California, her art, influenced by the CA figurative movement, included the exuberant painterly quick figure studies and intuitive large-scale acrylic figure paintings. These unique paintings don’t seem to recognize the authority of any single style, yet convey the many emotions and beauty of women. The series Jars & Jugs engages various still life and landscape settings, while playing with multiple styles; expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and fantasy. Her pencil, pen, pastel and charcoal drawings have a wonderful delicacy and dreaminess. Sheila has shown art in West Coast galleries and at her Berkeley studio during open door exhibits.