Galería Pelaires
For this exhibition at Galería Pelaires, A l’ombra d’en Tomir, Woods has employed previously worked canvasses —remnants recycled from his studio— as the foundation for a series of luminous, larger than life images in oil, oil stick, dry pastel and urethane. The accumulation of multiple layers creates areas of intersecting, turbulent surface textures that partially reveal the processes involved in each painting; the traces of previous states become a formal documentation of their manufacture. Dense, deeply textured oil colour impastos contrast with thin translucent areas of dry pastel on specially treated raw canvas, giving the pictures a deeply layered perspective. Pictures of mostly female figures alternate with close-ups of poppy flowers and pods. The installation is punctuated with smaller framed works in watercolour on paper which are often sketches or source material for the larger paintings. Woods works and reworks multiple versions of similar images, working through ideas and drawing out different interpretations with each new iteration.
CCC Pelaires, C/ Can Verí 3, Palma de Mallorca, Dec. 16, 2021 - Feb. 15 2022
Galería Pelaires - Cabinet
I usually use watercolor to work through ideas and in the development of larger paintings in other media. This selection of small to medium format watercolors on paper is my first exhibition dedicated entirely to these works.
CCC Pelaires, C/ Can Verí 3, Palma de Mallorca. Dec. 12, 2019 - January 20, 2020
Installation view, Pelaires Gallery
Installation view, Pelaires Gallery
Installation view, Pelaires Gallery
Havana, 2019, watercolor on paper, 50 x 70 cm
Swimsuit, 2019, watercolor on paper
Bend, 2019, watercolor on paper
Model, 2019, watercolor on paper
Moonrise, 2019, watercolor on paper
Depressoid, 2019, watercolor on paper
Mortitx, 2001, watercolor on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Untitled, 2019, watercolor on paper
Blood Moon, 2019, watercolor on paper
Harpist, 2019, watercolor on paper
At a Distance, 2013, watercolor on paper
Tim Sheward Projects - London UK
6th June – 29th June 2013
Curated by Julien Dobbs-Higginson
The Black Moon series of drawings were created for Woods' first solo exhibition in the UK at Tim Sheward Projects, London.
These works on paper reflect upon and contextualise, from a contemporary perspective, the nocturne - a subject that preoccupied some of the most important Northern European painters during the first half of the nineteenth century. The images in these drawings reflect the Romantic tradition, but they move beyond classical references. Woodsʼ work invokes recent mass media images and the work of contemporary filmmakers such as David Lynch and Nicholas Winding Refn -- particularly as they explore the dynamics of visual perspective. As a result his drawings possess a strong filmic presence and exude a sense of quiet solitude similar to the imagery of film noir.
Black Moon, 2013, dry pastel pigment on paper, 70 x 100 cm
LN2, 2013, dry pastel pigment on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Installation view
Installation view
LN4, 2013, dry pastel pigment on paper, 70 x 100 cm
LN3, 2013, dry pastel pigment on paper, 70 x 100 cm
An exhibition of paintings in urethane on canvas, this presentation marks a return to large-scale painting - a departure from the pastel drawings on paper and site-specific wall drawings that precede it. Press release
CCC Pelaires, C/ Can Verí 3, Palma de Mallorca. June 9 - October 2016
Double Road Sunset, 2016, synthetic resin and pigment dispersion on canvas panel, 220 x 290 cm
American Nude, 2016, synthetic resin and pigment dispersion on canvas panel, 214 x 255 cm
Mirror Ball, 2016, synthetic resin and pigment dispersion on canvas panel, 220 x 290 cm
Cartel, 2016, synthetic resin and pigment dispersion on canvas panel, 220 x 290 cm
Multiple Moons, 2016, synthetic resin and pigment dispersion on canvas panel, 220 x 180 cm
Existential Vacuum, 2016, synthetic resin and pigment dispersion on canvas panel, 110 x 80 cm
Portrait of My Dealer, 2016, synthetic resin and pigment dispersion on canvas panel, 208 x 170 cm
100 Days (Palms), 2016, dry pastel on paper, 65 x 50 cm
This series, 100 Days, formed part of a group show with Amparo Sard and Guillermo Rubí at Isa Galerie, Mumbai, India, June 7 - Aug. 24, 2016
Installation view, Isa Galerie, Mumbai
Installation view, Isa Galerie, Mumbai. With work by Amparo Sard.
Installation view, Isa Galerie, Mumbai. With work by Amparo Sard.
100 Days - Through the Pines, 2016, powder pastel on paper, 65 x 50 cm
100 Days - Sunrise, 2016, powder pastel on paper, 65 x 50 cm
100 Days - Centuries, 2016, powder pastel on paper, 65 x 50 cm
100 Days - Cedar, 2016, powder pastel on paper, 65 x 50 cm
ARCO 2016 - Madrid, Spain. Galería Pelaires
Silver Roof (detail), 2016, pigment dispersion and urethane on canvas, 215 x 255 cm
Silver Roof, 2016, pigment dispersion and urethane on canvas, 215 x 255 cm
Red Sunrise, 2016, pigment dispersion and urethane on canvas, 215 x 197 cm
Red Sunrise (detail), 2016, pigment dispersion and urethane on canvas, 215 x 197 cm
Galería Maior, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009
Installation view
Mortitx II (diptych), 2007, urethane and pigment dispersion on canvas, 170 x 425 cm (170 x 210 cm ea. panel)
Mortitx II (detail)
Mortitx II (detail)
Installation view
Summer Cinema (Cine de Verano), 2008, charcoal and pastel on unprimed linen, 100 x 130 cm
Backyard, 2008, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 cm
Untitled, 2008, urethane pigment dispersion on canvas, 170 x 210 cm
Untitled, 2008 (detail)
Installation view
Graveyard, 2008, urethane and pigment dispersion on panel, 140 x 170 cm
Graveyard, 2008 (detail)
Installation view
Origin of the World (after Courbet), 2007-08, urethane and pigment dispersion on canvas, 120 x 170 cm
A site-specific mural on glass covering the five storey facade of the Ibiza Gran Hotel. The work was painted by hand on large acrylic glass panels.
Subtle historical references serve as metaphors for the decadence and Dionysian nature of the island’s renowned club culture. Noting the island’s importance in bird migration routes, Woods draws a corollary between its chimerical human nocturnal activity and the fowl that emerge from within the foliage of the painted landscape. The work was painted on large acrylic glass panels that were subsequently installed on the interior of the existing glass façade.
Taking as a point of departure the idea of a cloister screen as a filter and modulator of light, Woods intersects it with an intensely personal, informed view of the Balearic landscape. Subtle historical references serve as metaphors for the decadence and Dionysian nature of the island’s renowned club culture. Noting the island’s importance in bird migration routes, the artist draws a corollary between its chimerical human nocturnal activity and the fowl that emerge from within the foliage of the painted landscape.
The mural adds an iconographic identity to the hotel entrance, visible from both the outside and inside of the building. Due to the sillhouetted, interior-exterior duality of the work it changes dramatically in differing light conditions: from day to night; from inside to out.
Exterior view - night
Interior detail view
Exterior view - dusk
Exterior view
Interior detail view
Exterior view - night
SLOWTRACK GALLERY, MADRID
Curated by Alfredo Aracil
A3BANDAS, April 11 – May 23, 2015
La Isla VI, 2015, Pastel on paper, 84 x 65 cm
La Isla I, 2015, Oil on linen, 178 x 218 cm
La Isla VI, 2015, Pastel on paper, 84 x 65 cm
La Isla XII, VII & VIII, 2015, pastel on paper, 84 x 65 cm ea.
La Isla X, IX, & XI, 2015, pastel on paper, 84 x 65 cm ea.
La Isla IX, 2015, Pastel on paper, 84 x 65 cm
La Isla XVIII, XVII, XV, & XIV, 2015, pastel on paper, 65 x 50 cm ea.
an investigation of color field perception and optical phenomena
This exhibition, at _2B - an extension of the architecture studio Moneo Brock, consists of a site-specific installation comprised of a series of studies using pure pigment powders on paper as well as a large scale wall drawing in pure pigment powder. The installation explores optical phenomena related to color fields and their relationships with the perception of our celestial - solar surroundings.
Sun/Moon, powder pigment on wall, dimensions variable
Sun/Moon, installation view
Sun/Moon, installation view
Sun/Moon, 2015, pastel and pigment powder on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Sun/Moon, 2015, pastel and pigment powder on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Sun/Moon, 2015, pastel and pigment powder on paper, 50 x 65 cm
Sun/Moon, 2015, pastel and pigment powder on paper, 50 x 65 cm
An installation of landscape drawings, in scratched enamel on mirrored glass, inspired by Surrealist interpretations of the Mediterranean. The exhibition is also comprised of two other parts, each of which explore approaches to studying landscape. Sept. 15 - Nov. 5, 2011 at Galería Maior, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Installation view
Untitled - MD2 (detail), 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 165 x 220 cm
Untitled - MD1, 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 165 x 220 cm
Untitled - MD2, 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 165 x 220 cm
Untitled - MD3, 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 165 x 220 cm
Untitled - MD1 (detail), 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 165 x 220 cm
Untitled - MD5, 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 70 x 50 cm
Untitled - MD5 (2nd view), 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 70 x 50 cm
Untitled - MD6, 2011, enamel on glass mirror, wood frame, 70 x 50 cm
Installation view
Untitled, 2011, oil on linen, 41 x 33 cm
Untitled, 2011, oil on linen, 41 x 33 cm
Installation view
Untitled, 2011, oil on linen, 41 x 33 cm
Untitled, 2011, oil on linen, 41 x 33 cm
Untitled, 2011, oil on linen, 41 x 33 cm
Installation view
Untitled, 2011, powder pastel color, paper, foam core, glue, H: 49 cm D: 49 cm
"A show of paintings by the artist Nicholas Woods that explore new ways of looking at landscape, portraiture and still-life. Taking a highly subjective, personal approach to these classical genres, Woods creates mysterious images of a parallel world.
These latest paintings depict landscapes populated by a series of anthropomorphic characters who dwell on tree branches or in other similarly bucolic places. The characters interact on a within a humorous structure of personal relationships and social hierarchy." - Galería Maior, Palma de Mallorca, 2004
A selection of paintings exhibited by Vacío 9 gallery in Madrid from 2005 - 2007. Read More
Hoodlums, 2005, oil on linen, 50 x 60 cm
Installation view, Vacío 9 Gallery, Madrid, 2005
Campesino Pudiente, 2005, oil on canvas, 198 x 297 cm
Campesino Pudiente (detail), 2005, oil on canvas
Campesino Pudiente (detail), 2005, oil on canvas
Connaisseurs, 2007, oil on linen, 48 x 60 cm
Smoking, 2005, oil on linen, 94 x 63 cm
The Whorehouse Oracle, 2006, oil on linen, 203 x 294 cm
The Whorehouse Oracle (detail), 2006, oil on linen
Solo, 2005, oil on linen, 99 x 114 cm
Made in 2000, jointly with Monica Fuster, for the first edition of Nit Niu, an annual outdoor art event in Cala San Vicente, Mallorca, Spain.
A single rickety wooden chair sits in a floating plastic house which is basically a piece of overblown homemade pool furniture rocking on the surface of the sea; from the ceiling of the inflated structure dangles a bare light bulb. The whole thing symbolizes and at the same time humors the notion of the temple, solitary meditation retreat, even possibly a torture scenario in a way that to me seems beautiful in its fragility and ephemeral nature. - N.W.
Room 603 (Installation view, Nit Niu '00), 2000, transparent plastic sheet, duct tape, electrical wire, light bulb, chair. 3m x 3m x 3m, 25m offshore
Room 603 (Installation view, Nit Niu '00), 2000, transparent plastic sheet, duct tape, electrical wire, light bulb, chair. 3m x 3m x 3m, 25m offshore
Room 603 (Installation view, Nit Niu '00), 2000, transparent plastic sheet, duct tape, electrical wire, light bulb, chair. 3m x 3m x 3m, 25m offshore
Room 603 (Installation view, Nit Niu '00), 2000, transparent plastic sheet, duct tape, electrical wire, light bulb, chair. 3m x 3m x 3m, 25m offshore
A collaborative project with Monica Fuster, Helium was selected as the recipient of the Fundación Altadís Public Art Prize, ARCO Madrid, 2002 by the curators Nicolas Bourriaud & Jerôme Sans (co-directors, Palais de Tokio, Paris)
Transparent vinyl, helium gas canisters, tape, rope, electrical wire, lightbulbs, various objects and materials. Dimensions variable. Installation view ARCO Madrid, 2002
Transparent vinyl, helium gas canisters, tape, rope, electrical wire, lightbulbs, various objects and materials. Dimensions variable. Installation view ARCO Madrid, 2002
Transparent vinyl, helium gas canisters, tape, rope, electrical wire, lightbulbs, various objects and materials. Dimensions variable. Installation view ARCO Madrid, 2002
Transparent vinyl, helium gas canisters, tape, rope, electrical wire, lightbulbs, various objects and materials. Dimensions variable. Installation view ARCO Madrid, 2002
Video still, 2002
Transparent vinyl, helium gas canisters, tape, rope, electrical wire, lightbulbs, various objects and materials. Dimensions variable. Installation view ARCO Madrid, 2002
"gota a gota, which means drop by drop, is a sort of kitchen daydream which floats between a hygienic fantasy and Chinese water torture. It represents a fictional story or environment that nevertheless is linked to material reality by its own artificially accelerated destruction caused by water dripping from a faucet." - N.W. In collaboration with Mònica Fuster.
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KRTU Grants 2002, Almazen, Barcelona
Diario de Mallorca - ART REPORT 2003, Casal Sollerich, Palma de Mallorca
gota a gota (Installation view, Almazen, Barcelona, 2002), soap bars, wood, copper pipe, faucet, water. Dimensions - height: 250cm, diameter: 150cm
gota a gota (Installation view, Almazen, Barcelona, 2002), soap bars, wood, copper pipe, faucet, water. Dimensions - height: 250cm, diameter: 150cm
gota a gota (Installation view, Casal Sollerich, Mallorca, 2003), soap bars, wood, copper pipe, faucet, water. Dimensions - height: 250cm, diameter: 150cm
gota a gota (Installation view, Casal Sollerich, Mallorca, 2003), Plexiglas, wood frame, LED lights, electronic circuit. 2 panels: 200cm x 100cm x 10cm each
