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Irene Wood, currently an artist in Seattle, Washington, studied painting at Whitman College where she received her BA in Studio Art. Her greatest influences have been her Chinese mother who not only forced calligraphy practices on her as a child, but also unconsciously provided her with high aesthetic expectations, and undoubtedly an eastern sensibility. And her father, a world history professor and systems theory enthusiast, from whom Irene adopted the need to find how everything is somehow connected in the universe as opposed to independent of each other. Irene’s aesthetic sensibility revolves around the combination of seemingly opposing elements in order to create balance. She brings together Asian and Western influences, traditional forms with modern abstraction, and a sense of the microscopic with the macroscopic. Botanical forms, biological, cellular elements, and reoccurring patterns in nature, such as the cluster of tree branches, roots, webs, brain synapses, and meandering rivers, play a consistent role in her paintings. Her ideal is to create pieces that imply a general sense of nature’s complexity while maintaining a pleasing, timeless sense of calm and beauty. LINKS: |
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