Plantbodies- Indicators & Reactors at SOIL

Ryan Aragon & Allyce WoodA new exhibition currently on view at SOIL Artist Run Gallery

January 2 - February 2, 2013
Opening Reception: January 3, 2013 from 6-8 pm
Hours: Weds-Sat 12-5

'gypsy moth' ink on paper, 10" x 10"

These new works are meditations on the interactions between plant life and manmade objects, 

systems, and environments. Aragon uses a variety of found/used/collected materials to make 

interactive installations and living sculptures which pair with Wood's detailed works on paper.

 Together, the work illuminates how the byproducts of our actions and everyday experiences 

affect other organisms and their ecosystems and emphasize the connections between plant 

bodies, human bodies, and the body of the earth. 

'infertile seeds' ink on paper 10" x 10"

'inescapable sludge' ink on paper 8.5" x 11"

'overtaken, molten' ink on paper 8.5" x 11"

detail of 'Regenerating Around a Toxic Orb' ink on paper, 10" x 10"

'Molten Blossom' ink on paper 6" x 8"

'polyps on tubers' ink on paper 9" x 6"

gallery view - towards the back

gallery view - towards the front

For more information about SOIL Artist Run Gallery, please click here.

112 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104       Hours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm 

(206) 264-8061gallery@soilart.org

Nominated for an Art Walk Award!

 "The winter Art Walk Awards are bigger than ever, awarding
 $1,250 to the first place winner, $500 to the second place
winner and $250 to the third place winner. Ten total finalists
will be eligible for these awards. The nine finalists below were
nominated by galleries participating in the Art Walk Consortium
and then selected by City Arts."

Presented by Blue Moon, the Art Walk Awards will take place on Thursday, Jan. 24
at 1927 Events in downtown Seattle.
 
Click here for a link to the Facebook page- RSVP to the event there for free entry (and a chance to vote!)

Click here to be directed to the Event's article.

'covering'

The piece that was nominated was this ink
on paper drawing, Covering, as seen at last
months show at Ghost Gallery in Seattle!
Click here to see my previous post about the work.

Individual drawings now available at LxWxH

Click here to be directed to LxWxH's 'Buy Art' Page!

This piece, Corpse Pile, represents the style of work you will purchase, but may not be the
exact piece you receive. All pieces are 9"x12" and come with Emily Pothast's essay, Feedback Loop

LxWxH is an organization I worked with in October, contributing Megafauna watercolor paintings
for their boxed edition. The work has been released from those boxes (which also featured
work by Brian Cypher) for individual sale.

'body and ravine'

'bone fragment 1'

'bone fragment'

 




























You can click here to be connected tomore images + information about my project.

Click here to be connected to LxWxH's main webpage.

New Website!

For a more formal portfolio view of my work, 
check out my new website: http://allyceallyce.weebly.com/

I will continue to post here with more frequency. Thank you for your support!

Published in Yuck'n'Yum Winter 2012 Edition

Cover by Helen Flanagan

I am very pleased to have had a 'MicroSlime' drawing included in this
season's Yuck'n'Yum- the work throughout is really extraordinary.
(click here to see my piece 'Upwards')

Artists include Jessica Langley, Cos Ahmet, Susannah Stark, Anna Solal,
Ben Robinson,Tara Chaloner, Emma Finn,Cameron McEwan, Matthew Scott Gualco,
Islay Spalding, Catrin Jeans & Waffle Burger,Morgan Cahn, Wahj Jamjoom,Callum
Monteith, and Hazel Gore.

Yuck ‘n Yum is a not-for-profit group based in Scotland. Free paper editions are
available at launches, and are sent out to several galleries and distributors*.
PDF versions are always available online for you to print out yourself.
click here to get the PDF or to Read Online

*Analogue Books, Aye-Aye Books, Banner Repeater, GENERATORprojects,
 Good Press Gallery, Hannah Maclure Centre, Project Slogan, Star and Shadow Cinema, 
Superclub, The Collective Gallery, The Pipe Factory

click here to see the wonders who make it happen!

New PrintZero Artwalk Calendars!

Jess Rees and Brian Lane have printed another year's worth of Seattle Art Walk
calendars showcasing artwork and important gallery openings in the Seattle Area.
These are all hand printed silkscreens (11" x 17") showcasing work by  yours truly,
Jihee Kim, Cait Willis, Eroyn Franklin- check back in to see if others are added!

The calendars are only $10 each, plus $4 shipping, anywhere in the US- click here to buy!
All proceeds go back to the PrintZero Studios.

 
For information regarding the printing facility, see this link: http://printzerostudios.com/
To see the entire collection of calendars, please click here: http://printzerostudios.com/calendar/

'Collected, Trussed' selected by Kirsten Anderson

Kirsten Anderson of Belltown's Roq La Rue Gallery
selected 'Collected Trussed' as one of her 'favorite pieces'
as featured in Artsyo's 'Sad Wall Contest'
Here is a link to the contest.

You can read the complete article here

LxWxH

'starved then picked clean' watercolor on paper 18x24"

This piece finalizes my earlier series of the hypothetical mass-hunting of
prehistoric Irish Elk as seen here and in the September/October issue of LxWxH.

LxWxH has grown from it's monthly arts and literature boxes to a full gallery located
in Georgetown, Seattle. 'Out of the Box' was it's first show and it included work by
25 artists that had previously included work in the publication. For information about
the gallery, please click here or have a look at its Facebook.

Click here to see the online catalog of works.

For Sale

Artsyo! has invited me to sell my work through them. They are a local company working hard to promote Seattle art and art sales, offering 100% of proceeds to the artists.

Please follow this link to be connected to my work- I am always available to answer questions via email at AllyceWood@gmail.com

microslime botanicals at Ghost Gallery

Covering

Ecrusted

Overtaken

Upwards

2012, Ink on Paper. Each is 5x5" and are for sale
These four drawings have been selected to be a part of Seattle's Ghost Gallery miniature art exhibition. (To view the Facebook Event, please click here.)

The opening reception is Thursday November 8th at 5pm.

These pieces are thorough explorations into the small-but-complicated universe that is spore-adhesion, root coverage, and blooms of fungus and slimes. These close ups are imagined trials of what the original ground loses as it is taken over by these genius organisms; organisms that are as complicated in their patterns of growth as they are simple in their design.

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in purchase: allycewood@gmail.com

Small Voids

allyce wood 'woven covering' ink and acrylic on acetate, 9x9"

proposed install view of 'galleries

Small Voids is a series of 100 mini "galleries" each one 
containing the work of a different Seattle artist. The work 
will be mounted to existing street signs and light poles for 
this one night show!

Todd Jannausch is the founder/creator/curator of this project, 
and has facilitated other ‘alternative space’ exhibitions in 
the past. Please click these links to view archives of  
Gallery (206) and Gallery 40!

The art walk is to take place in Pioneer Square near the 
Tashiro Kaplan building on 115 Prefontaine Place South, 
Seattle, WA 98104

Thursday, October 4, 2012 from 5:00 – 9:00 pm

Click here to read the write up by Seattle Magazine
Click here to be directed to the Facebook Page

'Polder' at the NEPO 5K

alternate views of my piece 'Polder' as seen on 10th and King ST, Seattle WA
as part of the NEPO 5K. The NEPO  5K is a city-wide art event put on by Klara Glosova,
founder of NEPO House Gallery showcasing performances and work by over
100 local artists. For more information about the event, or to see the complete list of artists,
please  click this link !!! There you will find press by City Arts Magazine, Seattle Magazine,
and many more.

'Polder' is made of cut color photocopies of my drawings of local moss species. The 100+ pieces
where stapled to a fresh-looking (i.e. not previously 'postered') telephone poll, graphically
dragging the creosote pillar back to its original state as a member in the Hoh Rainforest.
My intention was to speak both to the industrial processes used to create our city landscapes
from raw living materials as well as the impossibility of accurately recalling timber's first life.

The Silent Divested

full view from gallery entrance

view from the left of the pillar

detail

This piece is a part of 'Old Ghost Ranges, Sunken Rivers Come Again' a group exhibition on view at Cornish College of the Arts, Main Gallery.

Opening Reception Wednesday, September 5, 5-8 pm
September 5 - October 12

Featuring Vaughn Bell, Gretchen Bennett, Zack bent, Mathew Browning, Stephen Chalmers,
Eirik Johnson, Matthew Offenbacher, Whiting Tennis, Kimberly Trowbridge, myself,
Peter Scherrer, and Claude Zervas. Curated by Cable Griffith

For more information about the show, please click here

new drawings

'leeching: fungal takeover' ink on paper, 9x11"

'amongst the blades' ink on paper, 9x11"

‘Devastators’ is a series of drawings about the imminent decimation of organic material.
 Each piece inventories a multitude of nutrient-suckers in action against larger organisms.
Bacteria, fungus, ozone, etc. roiling against a fallen cedar tree is one such example.

These drawings are all drawn from imagination using an ink pen and black marker.
They will be on display at The Living Room as part of my solo show,
curated by Sara Ann Davidson. The opening reception is on September 13^th, from 6-9pm.
Please click here for more information! 

This show location is currently being revised. Please check back in!

Upcoming work in the NEPO 5K

'Polder (swamp moss)' drawing, mixed media on paper, 8x10"

After reading a stream in which two commenters argued global warming’s effects on Seattle ‘slow to start’ summer, I was struck by the argument ‘This is a Rainforest!’ This short sentence reflects our forgetfulness of the origins of our city as well as our proximity to what remains of the Hoh, and how both environments affect our climate.  By abstractly recreating and then applying elements of that first world back onto our city I will remind viewers both of the manufactured tomes that exist as well as what would have been, had we never interfered.)

This piece is to be made by wrapping various Telephone Poles with exaggerated moss images (such as the one above)  in a process similar to that band’s use in poster promotions. Some cut material will dangle and layers will build up in the same way that moss would, transforming the creosote pole into the tree it would have been.

For more information about The NEPO House and this Event (September 8th!) Please follow this link.

New Member Show at SOIL

photo courtesy of julia hensley

photo courtesy of julia hensley

'Worth Two (transformative shrub)'approx 5' square, hand cut plastic, paint pen, wood


with artists Seth Damm, Paul Komada, Amanda Manitach, Serrah Russell, and myself

Click here for more information. 

Group Exhibition in Glasgow

photo by Parvez Ali

Woodlands Community Garden and Energy Awareness Hub 
is an amazing project transforming an urban gap site in Glasgow.

 If you would like to contribute to the project or would like more information, please email woodlandscommunitygarden@gmail.com

Worth Two (Constructed Refuge) in progress

approx 5' square, hand cut plastic, paint pen, wood

This piece speaks to the adage "A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush*". 

The statement has been haunting me, begging to be used in ecological "guilt-trip" sculpture. 

As I consider this use of phrase, I am equally persuaded to demonstrate my own artistic 

worth (fulfilling the symbol of the Bird), and the worth of the establishment (the Bush).

*"An Artwork in the Studio is Worth Two in a Gallery"

The symbolic Bush is a protectant that allows you the privilege to exist, (the original Bird 

being saved from hunter's grasp) and then doubles every valuable component of your being. 

It is a powerful place! And to recreate it as a piece aware of it's own place within a gallery 

is to raise conversation of the insular bubble and the artist's awareness of inclusion.

Window Installation on 3rd and University

'Dependent on Nearly Nothing'

Materials: silkscreens on vellum, binder clips, hardware, hand-tied string nets

This piece is part of SAM Galleries' upcoming show 'Contemplating Nature'. 

It spans a 12'x8'x6' window that is ground level with 3rd and University (kitty-corner to Benaroya Hall)- 

from inside the gallery you look up into the piece which illuminates nicely in the natural light.

Last May I showed 'First Glimpse' here: follow this link to see the piece!

  

"This recreation of the Epiphyte, or Air Plant, is born out of incesent identity comparisons. 

Air Plants fit our own classifications of ideal bodies. No matter what their current planted 

situation or their farmed history, they preserver through their lifecycle without losing 

grace: they remain green, stiff-petaled, and fruitful. As current society dictates, strong people 

are those who are perceived to be equally unsusceptible to weakness: one must not express 
negativity, “luxuriate” in excess comfort, or rest from their working states. Both Air Plants 
and people take “secret” nutrients, though they greatly vary in terms of effectuality on the 
speceis' psyche. While the plant takes advantage of mineral particles passing by breezes and
 photosynthesize surplus sunshine, humans fall to a wider range of vices."

Upcoming Exhibition

Drawings for 'Contemplating Nature'

'Devastators' ink on paper, 18x24"

'Fleeing' ink on paper, 18x24"

     




















These two drawings are for sale at the SAM Gallery in downtown Seattle for $500 each (framed). Please stop by, or contact them at SAMGallery@seattleartmuseum.org if interested.
For more information about the gallery CLICK HERE

In this diptych, I illustrate animals interacting with fallen Pine environments as both the agitators ('Devastators' being a reaction to the pine beetle situation in North America) as well as the cohabitators ('Fleeing':insects or birds) that depend on such environments for the sustainment of their own species.

Click to Enlarge- I recommend the full detail!

'Texture of Being' at Cullum Gallery

'without sharpness'

'impervious'

Both printed with oil-based relief, hand tinted with watercolor 8"x10"
on Reeves Light paper (wood used was Japanese birch-ply).
Editions of 10 to be sold for $85 each

Curator Brian Lane has composed an exhibition of  a dozen North American 
artists' relief prints exploring the layers of identity at Seattle's own Cullom Gallery.
The show opens this May 3 from 6-8pm; the exhibition will run for a month.

For information about the gallery follow this link: www.cullomgallery.com

Entwined Competitors

as displayed in Red Current (sweet fruit)-scroll down for show information

the show was also featured on Hi-Fructose's blog;
follow this link to read the article.

myself in front of my piece- image courtesy of hi-fructose magazine

This piece was made from hand cut paper (the gray blackberry vines) and hand cut silkscreens on vellum. Installed piece by piece with small steel pins, the two "species" combat over the gallery space.
It is my intention to illustrate both the complicated means in which to sustain oneself in the floral world as well as compete socially, economically, and artistically.