Black Vomit

source: martinasbaek

The British artist Clare Woods (b. 1972) took her Master in Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths Collage in London, and since then her career has picked up speed. Woods process begins with her own photographs from the English and Welsh landscape. At first Woods photographed at night. The idea was to create and show an emotion in the landscape rather than to depict the landscape itself. Over time the works have developed through three major phases. The first works were based on depictions of forests and trees, but zooming in close to the organic growths. After this water and lakes were often included in the works. The third phase, presented by the works in the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, is based on photographs from Yorkshire, with the works primarily featuring rocks, stones and roots.

Clare Woods has exhibited at a number of prominent galleries and museums in Europe and the USA. In Denmark Woods is represented in ARKEN’s collection and at present can be seen in the museum’s ‘art axis’ with an enormous work of 3 x 10 metres.
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source: aptglobalorg

Born in 1972 in Southampton, United Kingdom, Clare Woods lives and works in London. Woods creates large-scale paintings using oil and glossy enamel paint on aluminium panel, which lend her works a congealed and reflective finish. Her stylistic approach shares affinities with both graphic design and expressionism, drawing on their divergent languages to create images that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Woods’ process involves taking snapshots of dense undergrowth in the English countryside at night, which she assembles and draws before conceiving of the final work. Her depictions of unruly asphyxiating patches of wilderness convey a sense of foreboding associated with violent crimes, horror movies and sinister pagan rituals. Channelling fear and fascination, Woods’ seductive and ominous paintings are often titled after orphanages or sanatoriums, furthering the works’ psychological tension.

Clare Woods has recently presented solo exhibitions at André Buchmann Gallery, Berlin (2009), Parra & Romero, Madrid (2009), The New Art Centre, Salisbury (2008), Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London (2008), Jiri Svetska Gallery, Prague (2007), Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles (2007) and Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens (2007). Her work has also been shown as part of “The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art” at Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall and Towner contemporary art museum Eastbourne (2009-10), “Fringes of Abstraction” at Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam (2008), “John Moores 24” at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2006), “Extreme Abstraction” at Albright Knox Art Gallery, New York (2005) and “Forever Young” at Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2003). She was short-listed for the 2nd edition of the Beck’s Futures Prize at the ICA, London in 2001.