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At first glance the small recent paintings of Eleanor Wood appear to have strong affinities with recent Minimalist art. They are distinct, however, in being acutely tactile and imaginatively open-ended evoking wide ranging haptic, as well as visual, associations that give the work a wistful sense of age and wear. This sense is reinforced by the fact that support and medium are so thoroughly and skillfully fused that it is all but impossible to distinguish them.
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Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Reflections On Parallels 15
Eleanor Wood was born and grew up in London; she studied at Hornsey School of Art, Winchester School of Art and the MA Painting Course at Chelsea School of Art. After living in the North East, she moved to Norwich before relocating to California where she lived for 14 years, returning to North Norfolk in 2017.
Recent exhibitions have included: Process at Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary Canada, The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring exhibition, The Drawing Works at The London Art Fair, Islington, On Paper, an Arts Council touring Exhibition, and The Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition. In California the artist exhibited with Don Soker Contemporary Art in San Francisco, JayJay in Sacramento, and Andlab in Los Angeles. She has work in the collections of Arts Council England, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, UCSF Davis Medical Center, and others.
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At first glance the small recent paintings of Eleanor Wood appear to have strong affinities with recent Minimalist art. They are distinct, however, in being acutely tactile and imaginatively open-ended evoking wide ranging haptic, as well as visual, associations that give the work a wistful sense of age and wear. This sense is reinforced by the fact that support and medium are so thoroughly and skillfully fused that it is all but impossible to distinguish them.
Extract from gallery press release
Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Reflections On Parallels 15
Eleanor Wood was born and grew up in London; she studied at Hornsey School of Art, Winchester School of Art and the MA Painting Course at Chelsea School of Art. After living in the North East, she moved to Norwich before relocating to California where she lived for 14 years, returning to North Norfolk in 2017.
Recent exhibitions have included: Process at Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary Canada, The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring exhibition, The Drawing Works at The London Art Fair, Islington, On Paper, an Arts Council touring Exhibition, and The Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition. In California the artist exhibited with Don Soker Contemporary Art in San Francisco, JayJay in Sacramento, and Andlab in Los Angeles. She has work in the collections of Arts Council England, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, UCSF Davis Medical Center, and others.
© Eleanor Wood 2021
© Eleanor Wood 2021