Exhibitions
Big Science II
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presented by bG Gallery as part of the
Getty PST ART: Art and Science Collide 2024
curated by Om Bleicher, Sung-Hee Son and Deepa Subramanian
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The installation Big Science II alludes to large-scale scientific projects requiring significant resources, collaboration, and advanced technologies involving international cooperation, large facilities, high costs, and long time-frames. Examples include the Large Hadron Collider, Human Genome Project, and Hubble Space Telescope, leading to significant scientific advancements and technological innovations.
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Futopia®
A collaboration between Snezana Saraswati Petrovic and Alison Woods for Wonzimer Gallery For Tryst
Hosted by the Torrance Art Museum
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Torrence, CA 2024
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Futopia is a collaborative project curated by Alison Woods and Snezana Saraswatki Petrovic and Wönzimmer Gallery, Los Angeles, which took place at the Tryst Art Fair 2024, hosted by the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
For this project Futopia envisioned a world where creativity redefined sustainability. Up-cycling and recycling were transformed into an immersive art installation. The project invited intimate engagement, offering diverse perspectives on the human condition.
Participating artists included Gary Brewer, Carsten Bund and Susanne Gabler, Kate Carvellis, Joachin Castenada, Vasco del Ray, Dwora Fried, John Greer, Tulsa Kinney, Alaïa Parhizi , Daniela Parhisi, Snezana Saraswati Petrovic, Cheyann Washington, Ann Weber, and Alison Woods.
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Chrysalis
Curated by Kostas Propaglou
For The Butterfly Effect
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Athens, Greece 2023
Chrysalis is a site-specific installation comprising of nine floating hybrid formations. Made of digital prints sewn and salvaged fabric used in contemporary agriculture to protect crops from excessive heat and sun, repurposed organic and detritis materials found on site, paint and other textile industry trash such as thread and fabric scraps.
Woods' sculptures are uncanny contemplations of the dominion of evolution and transformation. With sprouting threats and other tethering agents anchoring the nine sculptures onto the adjacent surfaces, the installation arises as a robust testament to the interconnection of life and the activation of new possibilities and opportunities. Chrysalis is the bearer of new meaning and challenges, it is a manifestation of the Cycle of life and rebirth
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–Kostas Propaglou
1 island, 3 ecosystems
100 miles from LA
Curated by Emma Akmakdjian in collaboration with Alison Woods for Supercollider
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Project Space 642, Ventura CA, 2023
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1 island, 3 ecosystems, 100 miles from LA, is a multimedia group exhibition presented by SUPERCOLLIDER at Project Space 643. This exhibition shares perspectives of Santa Rosa Island through the lens of ten artists who attended SUPERCOLLIDER’s annual Field Study Program at CSUCI’s Santa Rosa Island Research Station in June 2023.
Only one hundred miles from Los Angeles, Santa Rosa Island in the Channel Islands National Park offers a view of California coastlines without the architecture of industrialization.
Metaclysm:
Abstraction in the Virtual Age
Solo Exhibition
Gallery 825
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Los Angeles, CA 2023
What distinguishes this particular era in art from its predecessors is the advent of the computer and the age of technology. Computer networks connect humans to create a collective virtual consciousness. The machine intelligence of the future may achieve a functional IQ of over 6,000 and have an understanding of science and technology that is inaccessible to the human brain.
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My images discuss the relationship between the human mind in all of its complexities and technology with its persistent ramifications on culture. I create images that allow technology with its digital non-human binary mark to become a co-author alongside organic human mark-making to create a final work of art.
Shape of Us
Curated by Mayuka Kato Doja
A collaboration with Karolina Pernar
and Alison Woods
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Luxembourg 2020
In the present situation of the global spread of Coronavirus, what turned out to be particularly vulnerable is the condition of sociality and the moments of being together. The title of the exhibition points out the pronoun “us” can thus be understood as a reflection about the delicate constitution of the public space, in which the relationship with others is no longer innocent (if it has ever been!), but is, at the moment, profoundly contested due to the possibility that the other can be the carrier of the virus. Departing from this ambiguous “us” – as a conceptual framework that connects the works despite their differences – I am prone to think about the exhibition as embodying fragile geography of a jeopardized togetherness.
– Andrej Miraz
Personal Contacts
Alison Woods in dialog
with Maria Agureeva
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Los Angeles and Moscow 2020
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Featuring four curatorial artists inviting four artists to join them. Each artist invited one artist each to participate for whatever reasons: shared aims, joint interests or hopes to provide support and a platform during the pandemic. The exhibition featured a virtual exhibition in addition to a Zoom artist talk where the guest artist was interviewed by the inviting artist.
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We Are Here / Here We Are
Curated by Sean Noyce
in collaboration with Alison Woods
and Curtis Stage, Dani Dodge, Jennifer Celio, Joe Davidson, Roni Feldman, Jenny Hager, Valerie Wilcox, Steven Wolkoff
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Los Angeles, CA 2020
A Los Angeles County - wide exhibition of 100 artists that explores our innate desire for connectivity through sensation. Due to the constraints of the COVID -19 lockdown, the artists in this exhibition has chosen public spaces to display their work – from Santa Monica to the East Side and from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.
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100 Exhibiting artists throughout the greater Los Angeles Area. Curatorial selections included Luciana Abait, Chenhung Chen, Helen Chung, Cia Foreman, Mark Steven Greenfield, Kio Griffith, Pete Hickok, Nancy Ivanhoe, Brenna Ivanhoe, Duane Paul, Snezana Saraswati Petrovic, Dimitra Skandali, and Paul Osiecki Woods.
The Happy House
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A collaboration between Alison Woods
Sean Noyce and Joe Davidson
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Los Angeles, 2020
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​An interdisciplinary exhibition at SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA that explored Americans’ obsession with self-help, amateur psychiatry, and the excessive search to self-optimize.
Exhibiting artists: Jorin Bossen, Gul Cagin, Joe Davidson, Sean Noyce, Max Presneill, Curtis Stage, Steve Wolkoff, and Alison Woods,
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The Happy House, ©SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Image by Samuel Morgan Photography
Parallax
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A collaborative invitation between
Alison Woods and Alke Brinkmann
Berlin, 2019
Part of the B-LA exchange between Los Angeles and Berlin. An invitational from Axil Obiger artist Akle Brinkmann to create a two person exhibition focusing on the mutually shared interest in quantum physics. The exhibition was created as a full immersive installation with all of the surfaces of the gallery modified to become a part of the whole.
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Figura: Micro Macro
Curated by Alison Woods
and David Leapman with Ivana Cekovic.
Los Angeles 2019
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​A cultural exchange exhibition between Los Angeles California, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a tiny state surrounded by Europe, while the United States is one of the largest countries in the world. In a way, it is a David and Goliath relationship.
Exhibiting artists: EC, Ivana Cekovic, Joe Davidson, Ian Dawson, Jeff Desome, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Tom Dunn, Brian Thomas Jones, Katarzyna Kot-Bach ,David Leapman, Bertrand Ney, Karolina Pernar, and Alison Woods
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Figura: Micro Macro
Curated by Ivana Cekovic
with Alison Woods and David Leapman
Luxembourg 2019
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​A cultural exchange exhibition between Los Angeles California, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a tiny state surrounded by Europe, while the United States is one of the largest countries in the world. In a way, it is a David and Goliath relationship.
Exhibiting artists: Carlos Beltran Arechiga, EC, Ivana Cekovic, Joe Davidson, Ian Dawson, Tom Dunn, Brian Thomas Jones, Katarzyna Kot-Bach, David Leapman, Bertrand Ney, Karolina Pernar, Gay Summer Rick and Alison Woods
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Almost Sparkling
B–LA Connect
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Curated by Alison Woods in collaboration with Matthias Moravek and Gabriele Künne
Berlin, 2019
Part of the B-LA exchange between Los Angeles and Berlin. An international, emerging artists collaborative project which presents 20 artist-run gallery spaces in LA partnering with 20 artist-run spaces in Berlin.
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Exhibiting Artists: Carlos Beltran Arechiga · Dani Dodge · Thilo Droste · Ed Gomez · Harriet Groß · Gabriele Künne · Matthias Moravek · Enrico Niemann · Max Presneill · Maja Rohwetter · Alison Woods
In the stillness between
two waves of the sea
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Curated by Alison Woods
and Dimitra Skandali
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Los Angeles, CA 2018
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An exchange between artists from Greece and California, creating a dialogue between these seemingly disparate cultures. Like a cartography of places and approaches, this exhibition maps points of coexistence among chaotic global politics.
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Exibiting artists: Natasa Biza, Kio Griffith, Nancy Ivanhoe, Dimitris Katsoudas, Despina Nissiriou, Aliki Pappa, Ty Pownall, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Fran Siegel, Dimitra Skandali, Valerie Wilcox, and Alison Woods.
The phrase “cartography of places” best captures the essence of what makes this show so special. As the viewer moves from piece to piece, they become aware that a story is being mapped out. The sea, as a physical entity and as a romantic notion, is the connective thread that weaves throughout the storyline.
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-Patrick Quinn
In the stillness between two waves of the sea
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A heap of broken images
where the sun beats
Curated by Alison Woods
and Dimitra Skandali
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Paros, Greece 2018
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The second half of an exchange between artists from Greece and California at the Aegean Center for the Arts in Paros Greece. Organized as an ongoing exhibition and residency, the exhibition evolved over the coarse of the month long project.
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Exhibiting artists: Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Anastasios Babatzias, Natasa Biza, Jorin Bossen, Gul Cagin, Jennifer Celio, Dani Dodge, Kio Griffith, Jenny Hager, Dimitris Katsoudas, David Leapman, Alanna Marcelletti, Max Presneill, Despina Nissiriou, Aliki Pappa, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Fran Siegel, Dimitra Skandali, David Spanbock, Eleni Tziortzi, and Alison Woods.
Colab III at the Torrance Art Museum
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Torrance, CA 2018
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Exhibiting Artists: Juan Arata, Nina Lehtonen-Braun, Gul Cagin, Ellen DeElaine, Dani Dodge, Andy Holtin, Ben Jackel, Mike MacKeldey, Ty Pownell, Samantha Sethi, Hannah Van Ginkel, Daniel Wiesenfeld, Valerie Wilcox and Alison Woods
Futopia
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Curated by Alison Woods
and Kio Griffith
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Los Angeles, CA 2017
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How do we know when a new world paradigm is in the works. What marks the transition, and how do we know when it is time to fight or to take flight?
With the election of Donald Trump, Brexit, mass immigration of Syrian refugees, and impending climate change the world seems to be on the brink of sudden and transformative change. The rising global power of the 1% at the expense of the 99% leaves the world’s populations feeling helpless to redirect the course of a world perceived as spinning out of control.
What is possible within this context? We have posed this question to the artists participating in this exhibition. The offspring is Futopia, a crude hybridization of possible futures, both utopic and dystopic.
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Exhibiting Artists: Gul Cagin, Helen Chung, Eben Goff, Pete Hickok, Bryan Ida, Ma Li , Alanna Marcelletti, Alex Schaefer, and Lena Kazakova Wolek
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