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THE SORDONI ART GALLERY PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION: Brian Wood
(Wilkes-Barre) The Sordoni Art Gallery opens the exhibition, Brian Wood, on Monday, January 18, with a reception for the artist on Friday, January 29, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, March 14, 2010.
Brian Wood is an artist working with multiple media in New York City. His paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs are exhibited internationally and are held in numerous private and public collections. Wood is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and many others. Wood uses multiple media to foreground differing awareness in his ongoing exploration of consciousness. He uses different media to both stimulate and respond to various states of mind and multiple levels of thought. The literal is dissolved through metaphor and illusion. Just as trauma can imagine itself into ecstasy, these works transform matter, body, and mind through imagination. Rooted in our biological ground, Wood’s pieces are markers on the shifting borders of self and world.
The Sordoni Art Gallery exhibition, featuring 28 works ranging in date from 2000 to 2008, and borrowed from several private collections around the country, including the artist’s own, will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by New York poet, Christian Hawkey. “We are absolutely thrilled to have Brian Wood exhibit here at the Sordoni,” said Brittany Kramer DeBalko, Interim Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery.
The Sordoni Art Gallery is open to the public and is located at 150 South River Street in the Stark Learning Center on the Wilkes University campus. The Gallery is open daily, from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 570-408-4325.
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