"If you're making a painting and you put a thing down, or you glue a thing down, or you paint a thing down, then you have to be just as ready to fucking fuck it up. Committing something to the surface is dually a commitment to erasing it or obliterating it."
Jack Wood
Born in Cincinnati, OH / Works in Queens, NY
Jack Wood makes art layer by layer, creating planes of depth like a Looney Toons landscape gone rogue. Each vibrant gradient is a new shape and a new texture fitted exactly in place in its patchwork landscape. Jack cuts up his prints, paintings, and warm memories layering them with joyful color and a healthy sprinkling of whichever eternal question pops up in the process.
Jack Arthur Wood Jr. is a visual artist and educator currently based in Queens, NY. Wood’s studio practice is concerned with painting, mark and stripe through collage. He works as an educator throughout the five boroughs with organizations that provide arts to underserved communities.
Wood studies printmaking at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking in 2012, and was granted Master’s of Fine Arts Degree in printmaking from Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi in 2017.
Wood has been an artist in residence in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a printmaking and education fellow at the Wassaic Project Artist Residency, a fellow at Little Bear Hill Post Digital Printmaking Residency, a returning fellow at Otter Studios and a recipient of the Tiger Lily Press Working Artist Program.
Wood has published writing through the AEQAI Arts Journal, Cambridge Scholars and Perfectly Acceptable Press.
You'll like Jack Wood if...
You’ve ever fallen out of a tree and laughed afterwards
