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36" x 40"
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32" x 40"
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32" x 40"
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32" x 40"
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With training in diverse artistic styles and practices, LM Wood navigates between the domains of art, craft and technology. Her current work combines digital technologies with traditional craft processes to raise questions about the definition of high art. Exploring the intersection between reality and history, she celebrates how memory is represented through surreal narratives and the juxtaposition of materials from various time periods and art hierarchies.
Wood has presented and exhibited her artwork nationally including exhibitions at the Museum of Design (Atlanta, GA), Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (Asheville, NC), and the North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, ND). She has also won several awards for her experimental works including a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women for her earlier research into combining digital technologies and traditional photographic processes and a Visual Arts Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council for her digitally printed fabric quilts
I am drawn to the photographic image for what it represents, that intersection between reality and history. My work is a tribute to memory in visual form.
I begin with a vintage photograph of a person I am particularly drawn to. It may be their pose, their clothing or even the texture of their skin that I feel a connection to. Then using the computer, this image is combined with something manmade and something from nature.
What connects these images together? It’s rather like a puzzle. I search for those elements that “fit” together, creating a narrative that brings them to life. Why do I print these images on fabric? I am drawn to the tactile nature of this medium and our associations with the quilt. Quilts embody the history and values of their makers. They have a personal history and a collective past. These unfolding stories are like artifacts lifted from an imaginary place and time. Every person has a story. It is up to you to imagine what their memories may be.
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I received a MFA in Photography at the University of Cincinnati and a MFA in Fibers from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL.




