FALSE ILLUSION
FALSE ILLUSION features a series of large-scale textile paintings incorporating mixed media. Polished furniture vinyl laminates the textiles, turning them sculptural. Woods is critically engaged with black performativity, creating with careful and dangerous skill what may be discovered as the ‘Black Venn Diagram.’ The incomprehensible and overlapping relationship between truth and contradiction, between inheritance and advancement, and the impossible labor of black narrative and transparency.
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-Laura Neal
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FALSE ILLUSION, Solo-Exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY
Sisters Educated and Liberated, 2019, 6.25ft x 6.25ft x 18in
Step team photo transferred onto fleece fabric, textile foil, heat transfer vinyl, Sharpe, textile paint, and polished furniture vinyl.
Sisters Educated and Liberated (detail)
Bruce Hill BLVD, 2020, 6ft x 7ft
Family photo transferred onto hand-cut and sewn quilt tops, textile foil, heat transfer vinyl, Sharpe, textile paint, and polished furniture vinyl.
-VMFA Permanent Collection
Bruce Hill BLVD (detail)
What Glitters Ain’t Always Gold II, 2020, 6ft x 9ft x 10in
Family photos transferred onto hand-cut and sewn quilt tops, textile foil, heat transfer vinyl, Sharpe, textile paint, and polished furniture vinyl.
What Glitters Ain’t Always Gold II, (detail)
What Glitters Ain’t Always Gold II, (detail)
(Left) What Glitters Ain’t Always Gold I
(Right) My Brother and Me
What Glitters Ain’t Always Gold I, 2020, 5.5ft x 5ft x 8in
Family photos transferred onto hand-cut and sewn quilt tops, textile foil, heat transfer vinyl, Sharpe, textile paint, and polished furniture vinyl.
What Glitters Ain’t Always Gold I, (detail)
My Brother and Me, 2020, 50in x 40in
Family photo transferred onto hand-cut and sewn quilt tops, textile foil, heat transfer vinyl, Sharpe, textile paint, and polished furniture vinyl.