CLARE WOODS
born in Southampton 1972, lives and works in London
Education
1997 - 99 MA, Goldsmith’s College, London
1991 - 94 BA, Bath College of Art, Bath
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Watercolours, Buchmann Box, Berlin
2008
The Dancing Mania, André Buchmann Gallery, Berlin
Monster Field, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
The Prospect, New Art Centre, Salisbury
2007
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
Rebecca Chami, Athens
Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles
Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel - Stuart Shave / Modern Art
2006
The Chisenhale Gallery, London
Pilar Parra Galeria de Arte, Madrid
2004
Modern Art, London
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
2002
Cohan, Leslie and Browne, New York City
2000
Modern Art, London
1997
New Paintings, Southampton City Art Gallery
Recent Paintings, Habitat, Kings Road, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Fringes of Abstraction, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
2007
Wood for the Trees and the Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
2006
John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Esencias 11, Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Vallaloid
2005
Chambres à Part, Sezz Hotel, Paris. Curator: Laurence Dreyfus
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, NY
2004
Stay Positive, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Painting Identities, La Galeria De Arte Pilar Parra, Madrid, Spain
New British Painting, John Hansard Painting, Southampton, England
Forest, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Touring Show
2003
The Walls Have Eyes, Modern Art, London
Forever Young, Sommer Contemporary Art, Israel
2002
Group Painting Show, Cohan, Leslie and Browne, NYC
Painting as a Foreign Language, Centro Britanica Brasilliero, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001
Tailsliding, British Council Touring Show
London Underground, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Group Show, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
Beck’s Futures, ICA London (travelling)
Beyond, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
2000
British Art 2 (Painting), Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin
What Collectors Are Collecting, Exit Art, New York City
And if there were no stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Paintings, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Wooden Heart, Avco, London
1999
Nature/Culture, Gimpel Files / Hales Gallery, London
Glass Border, Danielle Arnaud, London
Idle Wild, Approach Gallery, London
1998
Cluster Bomb, Morrison Judd, London
British Council, Touring Print Exhibition
Printemps, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft
1997
Habitat Print Project, Habitat, England, France, Germany
Underworld, Australian Council Studios, London
1996
Fritz & Betty, Exmouth Market, London
Die Yuppie Scum, Karsten Schubert, London
1995
Gothic, Lost in Space, London
White Trash, Lost in Space, London
1994
Transmission Report, Curtain Road, London
Selected Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY USA
Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Athens, Greece
The Ophiuchus Collection
British Council, London
Honart Museum, Tehran
Colección VAC (Valencia Arte Contemporáneo), on loan at IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia
Arken Museum, Copenhagen
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Clare Woods makes paintings of psychic landscapes. Her images are transcribed from photographs, which are taken at night, often in desolate, contested or overlooked locations such as areas of scrub or deep woodland. Pointing the camera and shooting into black, wet, creaking scrub, without any idea of what will manifest itself when the film is developed. Layers of enamel paint on aluminium, the resulting images are often disturbing and claustrophobic in their detail.