Kristine Woods’ work is informed by three interlinking experiences – her history in performance, her teaching, and through her work as a Gynecological Teaching Associate. All three contribute in complex and subtle ways to Woods’ works with form, texture, space and the poetics of materiality. Woods’ collaborative history includes projects with Gregg Bordowitz, Susie Brandt, Sharon Hayes and Christopher Whittey. Currently Woods is working alone in the studio primarily on sculptural forms supported by drawing, reading, weaving and writing. The concerns of the current work are rudimentary—standing, containing, struggling—and are fundamentally reliant on the properties of materials: their physical characteristics and their vernacular. Woods received her BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in Brooklyn and teaches at The Maryland Institute College of Art.
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The sculptures are rudimentary; their form relies on wool’s properties; agitation makes felt; entanglement is its vernacular. Small serial weavings are an important part of my work: accumulated lines that I push around and beat. These small-scale cloths occupy a position between object and drawing.
It is my abiding belief that abstract objects can teach about the political interpretation of non- representation. Forms that have never been seen appear in the studio. Lines combine in drawings and weavings strangely as if from an experience or consciousness. The sculptures, weavings, and drawings are evidence and explanation: they must be built in order to be considered.
Teaching is coextensive with my studio work. As a professor, I teach craft intensive studio classes as well as seminars in critical thinking, reading, and discussion. These pedagogic moves are familiar to my own working methods where text and language are material alongside wool, hard things, marks, and adhesives.
My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally most recently in Regarding & Regardless, a solo show at Virginia Commonwealth University in spring 2018. Residencies include Textilsetur Islands and Haystack Mountain School of Craft. My work has been supported by various granting sources including Creative Capital Foundation and MICA Faculty Research Grants. I received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I live and work in Brooklyn, NY and I am a full professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art as well as having mentored students in the Vermont College and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low Residency MFA programs.
- MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art
https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/fiber-major/kristine-woods/
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