Faculty:

Nicholas Wood

CLAY
Associate Professor (Area Coordinator)
(MFA New York State College at Alfred University; B.A. Art & Sociology, San Francisco State University)

office: SAC-141D
phone: 817-272-7329
email: nwood@uta.edu

Biography

Nicholas Wood, a multi media artist, has been exhibiting his artwork for over 33 years in a number of media, including clay sculpture, collage, drawing, mixed media sculpture, painting, photography, and site-specific multi-media installations. He has created public artworks in Bad Konigshofen, Germany and in Arlington and Dallas, Texas. He is also an independent curator of nine exhibitions, most recently Layered, Stacked, Assembled at the Arlington Museum of Art.

Recent solo exhibitions include: "STRATA”, American Institute of Architects - Dallas"; "Hung Up: Recent Sculptural Objects", Midland College; "Wallworks", Texas Wesleyan University; “ New Sculpture”, Emily G. Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio; "Field Theories", Moreau Center for the Arts, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.

He exhibits in a number of exhibitions each year on a regional, national and international level. Recent selections include:; “Recent Works", Center for the Arts, Montgomery College; “Clay on the Wall”, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock; “Ceramics: Texas & Beyond”, Charles & Dorothy Clark Gallery, UT Pan American; “Texas Clay Invitational”, Texas State University, San Marcos; “Six Visions: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture", UT San Antonio; "Holga in Germany: Photographs", Arlington Museum of Art & Vorgeschichtsmuseum Grabfeldgau, Bad Konigshofen, Germany; "Within Sight: Contemporary Arlington Artists", Arlington Museum of Art; "Snapshots", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut & Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; "Deliberations in Clay", Pillsbury Peters Gallery, Dallas; "Elemental Spaces"-an installation, Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth; "Viewpoint", Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA; "From the Ground Up: Contemporary Clay in Texas", Austin Museum of Art, Austin; "Altered States: Contemporary American Ceramics", Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO.

"Tapers & Strokes"
2001
76 x 24 x 32"
Wood and paints

"Constellations"
1994
detail
Mixed media on wall

"Flux & Mutibility"
1991
Installation View
sculpture: 1 x 22 x 18'
drawings: 50 x 38" ea.
Poccelain and Charcoal